INNOVATION | CHEMICAL RECYCLING
cial scale recycling of PS back to styrene monomer. Prior to building the commercial scale recycling plant, a PS recycling pilot plant will be built in the UK. In June, it was announced that Indaver, a leading player in the European waste industry, and Ineos Styrolution had signed an offtake agreement today giving Ineos Styrolution access to styrene mono- mer produced from post-consumer waste at Indaver’s planned depolymerisation plant. The new plant will be based in Antwerp, Belgium and will start production in 2024. Indaver already manages and treats industrial and house- hold waste in specialist facilities with plants and operations in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
In September 2020, Trinseo and Indaver signed
an offtake agreement for recycled styrene monomer. Trinseo said it would buy a minimum of 50% of the monomer produced at Indaver for a 10-year period, following start-up of the plant planned in 2023. Indaver will collect post-consumer PS, such as
yogurt pots and single-use packaging, and recycle and produce the recycled styrene through a proprietary depolymerisation technology at its
Antwerp, Belgium site. The recycled styrene will then be sent to Trinseo’s Tessenderlo, Belgium site nearby and will be used to manufacture recycled PS resins for dairy packaging and other applica- tions. Both the recycled styrene and recycled PS products will be ISCC Plus mass balance certified. Earlier this year, Trinseo announced that its plans for a world-class chemical recycling plant in Europe are progressing rapidly. The company has contract- ed with global technology provider Synova and global engineering services company Worley on the project and is planning to begin construction at Trinseo’s Tessenderlo, Belgium location by the end of the year. The plant will process 15,000 tpa of recycled PS
flakes to enable further production of PS and/or a styrene derivative including ABS and SAN. Trinseo has been working with CEDAP, an expert in plastic film extrusion and thermoforming, to provide food contact compliant recycled PS for the yoghurt cups of the French brand Les 300 Laitiers Bio since April 2022. Last year, Trinseo supported a similar yoghurt pot application in collaboration with sheet extruder Intraplàs and Yoplait in France. The material used for both applications is a Styron
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