The combination of advanced recycling and purification technologies enables more efficient processing and reuse of hard-to-recycle plastic.
Technip Energies (PARIS:TE) and Anellotech, Inc. (Anellotech) have signed a global joint development agreement to work cooperatively to develop further and then license Anellotech’s Plas-TCat™ process, a one-step thermal-catalytic recycling technology that converts mixed plastic wastes back into its constituent basic chemicals, with a specific focus to benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX) that can be used to make most virgin plastics.
The companies will bring their combined process technology expertise and know-how to complete comprehensive performance trials at Anellotech’s 100 tonnes/year nameplate feed rate demonstration plant in Silsbee, Texas. It will incorporate Technip Energies’ downstream processing units, leading to a process design for use by Technip Energies in its role as the global Plas-TCat™ licensor.
The Plas-TCat™ process can feed all major plastics with predictable end-product yields. This process can reduce CO2 emission up to 50% compared to the production of virgin monomers in naphtha crackers.
“Technip Energies is delighted to work with Anellotech to advance the Plas-TCat™ process,” said Bhaskar Patel, SVP Sustainable Fuels, Chemicals and Circularity at Technip Energies. “Anellotech’s technology brings a new pathway towards solving the plastic waste problem, converting the mixed plastic wastes into useful end products. For us, this is another opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, including now in Japan.”
“Anellotech looks forward to engaging with Technip Energies, a global leader in petrochemical, fluid catalytic cracking, refining and steam cracker technologies,” commented David Sudolsky, Founder, President and CEO of Anellotech. “This collaboration will provide the scalable, cost-efficient, attractive LCA solution needed to address plastic sustainability. Together with our strategic funding partner R Plus Japan Ltd., we will work towards accelerating the global licensing and commercialization of the Plas-TCat™ process.”
About Technip Energies
Technip Energies is a leading Engineering & Technology company for energy transition with leadership positions in LNG, hydrogen and ethylene, as well as growing market positions in blue and green hydrogen, sustainable chemistry and CO2 management. The Company benefits from its robust project delivery model supported by extensive technology, products and service offerings. It operates in 34 countries with 15,000 people. Technip Energies shares are listed on Euronext Paris. In addition, Technip Energies has a Level 1 sponsored American Depositary Receipts (“ADR”) program, with its ADRs trading over the counter.
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About Anellotech, Inc.
Anellotech (https://www.anellotech.com) develops and commercializes technologies for the innovative production of cost-competitive renewable chemicals and fuels from non-food biomass or plastic waste. Its fully developed Bio-TCat® technology is an efficient thermal catalytic process for converting non-food biomass into benzene, toluene and xylene and distillate for biofuels. Anellotech is now focused on Plas-TCat®, another fluid-bed catalytic process technology that converts mixed plastic wastes in one step into BTX, aromatics, olefins and paraffins, the basic chemicals used to make plastic for packaging and other product
Rick LeBlanc, EMBA, is the founder and editor of Reusable Packaging News (subscribe to the free newsletter) and editor of Western Pallet Magazine. A supply chain journalist with more than 30 years of experience, he specializes in pallets, reusable packaging, material handling and related operations. Rick is co-author of Pallets: A North American Perspective and Pallets & Progress: A Collected History of Pallets and Palletized Handling 1922–1945. He is also an advisory board member of the Virginia Tech Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design. Read Rick’s full bio.
