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Green Chemistry
Neste builds position in plastics-to-oil
by Alex Scott
January 8, 2021
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 99, Issue 2
Credit: Alterra
Alterra's facility in Akron, Ohio
The Finnish energy firm Neste has bought a minority stake in Alterra, an Ohio-based company with pyrolysis technology for converting waste plastic into an oil with properties similar to crude. Neste and Alterra will fine-tune the process and license it globally. Using its own process, Neste has fed its Finnish refinery with more than 500 metric tons of liquefied plastic waste.
Chemical & Engineering News
ISSN 0009-2347
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