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technology founded in 2020. In June, integrated central eastern European oil and gas corporation MOL Group announced it was partnering with Lummus Technology on the implementation of pyrolysis technology through its Green Circle business unit at MOL sites in Hungary and Slovakia. The Netherlands-based sustainable technology solutions provider also formed an agreement with Dongyang Environment Group to deploy its technology at a plant in Seosan, South Korea, which will be operated by Dongyang Environment’s subsidiary, Seohae Green Chemical. Nova Chemicals and Plastic Energy launched a
feasibility study regarding the development of a 66,000 tonne/yr pyrolysis-driven facility in Ontario, Canada. UK-based Plastic Energy also collaborated with Siemer and Landbell, regarding supply of pre-sorted waste to the unit it operates with SABIC in Geleen, The Netherlands. Plastic Energy closed out a busy year by providing its TAC process technology, which heats mixed post-consumer waste in the absence of oxygen and produces hydrocarbon vapours that are condensed into pyrolysis oil, for Petronas Chemicals Group to use at what it says will be the largest plant of its kind in Asia in Pengerang, Malaysia. The 33,000 tonnes/yr facility is expected to be operational by the first half of 2026. Toray Industries and Honda also agreed to develop a new technology for the chemical recycling of glass-fibre reinforced PA 6 parts recovered from end-of-life vehicles. The two companies have already begun verifying the technology, which entails depolymerising with water at high temperatures and pressures and regenerating the materials as caprolactam, a raw material for PA 6. During the summer Covestro reported on a
process for recycling polycarbonate (PC) whereby it is converted back into its monomers, the techni-
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cal implementation commencing at Covestro in Leverkusen on a pilot scale. If the tests are success- ful, the technology will eventually be scaled up. Shortly afterwards, news broke that UK-based Greenback Recycling Technologies had acquired plastics recycling specialist Enval, the deal coming after the inauguration of a plant using Enval’s microwave-induced pyrolysis technology in Cuautla, Mexico. It is hoped the combined com- pany, headed by Greenback CEO Philippe von Stauffenberg, will bring together the expertise of both firms, and create a stronger and more competitive entity. Revalyu broke ground on its first chemical PET
recycling facility in the US at Gateway Regional Park in Statesboro, Georgia, where it has invested over $200m in a plant capable of recycling 90,000 tonnes/yr using a process based on glycolysis which is said to use less water and energy. Con- struction is expected to be completed in Q3 2025. In October Mura Technology opened what it said is the world’s first commercial-scale HydroPRS chemical recycling plant in Teesside, UK, which has the capacity to produce 20,000 tonnes/yr. The first recycled liquid hydrocarbon products are expected to be delivered to Mura’s offtake partners in 2024.
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Above: Covestro says its chemical recycling process can be used directly for products even with high purity requirements
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