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Recycling

ExxonMobil backing French pyrolysis project

by Alexander H. Tullo
April 9, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 13

 

ExxonMobil Chemical is collaborating on a plastics recycling project in France with Plastic Energy, which uses pyrolysis to break down postconsumer plastics into a synthetic oil that can be processed back into plastics. Plastic Energy plans to build a plant at ExxonMobil’s chemical complex in Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon, France. It is scheduled to start up in 2023 with a capacity of 25,000 metric tons per year. Plastic Energy already operates two such plants in Spain and is building one in the Netherlands.

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