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Mura starts up plant using HydroPRS in UK
Mura Technology has opened the first commer- cial-scale plant using its HydroPRS chemical recy- cling technology. The plant in Teesside, UK, has the capacity to produce 20,000 tonnes/yr of recycled liquid hydrocarbon products with the first batch expected to be delivered to Mura’s offtake partners in early 2024.
The purpose-built facility
will process flexible and rigid mixed plastics, includ- ing films, that are currently considered unrecyclable. The HydroPRS process, unlike pyrolysis, utilises supercritical water (water under high pressure and high temperature) to convert plastics into feedstocks. Steve Mahon, Mura
Above: Opening of the chemical recycling plant in Teesside, UK
Technology’s CEO, said: “The technology works alongside existing mechani- cal recycling to ensure no plastic types are considered ‘unrecyclable’ and require incineration or landfilling. With support from our partners, the Teesside site will be the first in Mura’s global roll-out, helping in the fight against the plastic pollution and global warming crises and acting as a launchpad for the 1,000,000 tonnes of annual recycling capacity that Mura plans to have in operation and development in this decade.” Mura worked with Erema to install Chemarema single-screw extrusion-based raw material preparation technology at the facility. �
https://muratechnology.com
Versalis demo project in Italy
Versalis, Eni’s chemical company, has begun construction of a demo plant in Mantua, Italy, to develop Hoop, its propri- etary technology for chemical recycling. Hoop stems from a joint project with engineering
company SRS aimed at developing a technology that complements mechani- cal recycling by transform- ing mixed plastic waste into raw materials. This development has now been integrated with Technip Energies’ plastics
pyrolysis product purifica- tion technology. The demo plant will have capacity to handle 6,000 tonnes/yr of secondary raw material, and is scheduled to be up and running by the end of 2024. �
www.versalis.eni.com
Coperion recycling centre
Coperion has opened a Recycling Innovation Centre in Niederbiegen near Weingarten, Ger- many, adjacent to its Test Center for Bulk Solids Handling. It says every recycling process step (material handling, feeding, extrusion, compounding, pelletising, post-processing, deodor- ising) can be tested at the centre.
Along with proprietary
research and develop- ment projects, first tests have been performed for customers, in which new, sustainable products and recycling processes have been developed and tested. Coperion says its
process engineers can modify the available recycling technologies such that the recom- pounds are manufactured with the highest efficiency possible while maintaining a consistently high level of product quality. The results can then be scaled up to production level thanks to the constant base param- eters of all Coperion technologies, it says. �
www.coperion.com
Terrapure Environmental investment
Canadian company Terrapure Environ- mental has brought a plastics recycling system on-line at its existing battery recycling plant in Quebec. The $30m facility is said to be the largest of its kind in the country and will now allow
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the company to recycle PP battery casings which will be washed, shred- ded and extruded into pellets. The company says it will be able to recover over 90% of the constituent compo- nents in lead batteries, which typically
PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | November/December 2023
contain 4% to 5% plastic by weight. Ryan Reid, President and CEO of
Terrapure, said the company is further closing battery recycling loops for customers. �
https://terrapureenv.com
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
IMAGE: MURA
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