The Global Market for Advanced Chemical Recycling
Advanced recycling technologies that utilize heat or chemical solvents to recycle plastics into new plastics, fuels or chemicals are a key strategy for solving the global plastic problem.
Advanced chemical recycling technologies are now being developed by around 130 companies worldwide, and capacities are increasing. Companies including ExxonMobil, New Hope Energy, Nexus Circular, Eastman, Encina are planning to build large plastics recycling plants.
As well as complementing traditional mechanical recycling, advanced recycling offers benefits such as widening the range of recyclable plastic options, producing high value plastics (e.g. for flexible food packaging) and improving sustainability (using waste rather than fossil fuels for plastics production).
Report contents include:
Overview of the global plastics and bioplastics markets.
Market drivers and trends.
Advanced chemical recycling industry developments 2020-2023.
Capacities by technology.
Market maps and value chain.
In-depth analysis of advanced chemical recycling technologies.
Advanced recycling technologies covered include:
Pyrolysis
Gasification
Dissolution
Depolymerisation
Emerging technologies.
Profiles of 144 companies. Companies profiled include Agilyx, APK AG, Aquafil, Carbios, Eastman, Extracthive, Fych Technologies, Garbo, gr3n SA, Ioniqa, Itero, Licella, Mura Technology, revalyu Resources GmbH, Plastogaz SA, Plastic Energy, Polystyvert, Pyrowave, Synova and SABIC.
- CLASSIFICATION OF RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES
- Table Types of recycling.
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- Global production of plastics
- The importance of plastic
- Issues with plastics use
- Table Issues related to the use of plastics.
- Bio-based or renewable plastics
- Drop-in bio-based plastics
- Novel bio-based plastics
- Biodegradable and compostable plastics
- Biodegradability
- Table Type of biodegradation.
- Compostability
- Biodegradability
- Plastic pollution
- Policy and regulations
- The circular economy
- Plastic recycling
- Table Overview of the recycling technologies.
- Mechanical recycling
- Table Polymer types, use, and recovery.
- Advanced recycling (molecular recycling, chemical recycling)
- Table Composition of plastic waste streams.
- Table Comparison of mechanical and advanced chemical recycling.
- THE ADVANCED CHEMICAL RECYCLING MARKET
- Market drivers and trends
- Table Market drivers and trends in the advanced chemical recycling market.
- Industry developments 2020-2023
- Table Advanced chemical recycling industry developments 2020-2023.
- Capacities
- Table Advanced plastics recycling capacities, by technology.
- Global polymer demand 2022-2040, segmented by recycling technology
- Global market by recycling process 2020-2024, metric tons
- Chemically recycled plastic products
- Table Example chemically recycled plastic products.
- Market map
- Value chain
- Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) of advanced plastics recycling processes
- Table Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) of Advanced Chemical Recycling Processes.
- Market challenges
- Table Challenges in the advanced plastics recycling market.
- Market drivers and trends
- ADVANCED RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES
- Applications
- Table Applications of chemically recycled materials.
- Pyrolysis
- Non-catalytic
- Table Summary of non-catalytic pyrolysis technologies.
- Catalytic
- Table Summary of catalytic pyrolysis technologies.
- Table Summary of pyrolysis technique under different operating conditions.
- Table Biomass materials and their bio-oil yield.
- Table Biofuel production cost from the biomass pyrolysis process.
- SWOT analysis
- Companies and capacities
- Table Pyrolysis companies and plant capacities, current and planned.
- Non-catalytic
- Gasification
- Technology overview
- Table Summary of gasification technologies.
- SWOT analysis
- Companies and capacities (current and planned)
- Table Advanced recycling (Gasification) companies.
- Technology overview
- Dissolution
- Technology overview
- Table Summary of dissolution technologies.
- SWOT analysis
- Companies and capacities (current and planned)
- Table Advanced recycling (Dissolution) companies
- Technology overview
- Depolymerisation
- Table Depolymerisation processes for PET, PU, PC and PA, products and yields.
- Hydrolysis
- Table Summary of hydrolysis technologies-feedstocks, process, outputs, commercial maturity and technology developers.
- Enzymolysis
- Table Summary of Enzymolysis technologies-feedstocks, process, outputs, commercial maturity and technology developers.
- Methanolysis
- Table Summary of methanolysis technologies-feedstocks, process, outputs, commercial maturity and technology developers.
- Glycolysis
- Table Summary of glycolysis technologies-feedstocks, process, outputs, commercial maturity and technology developers.
- Aminolysis
- Table Summary of aminolysis technologies.
- Companies and capacities (current and planned)
- Table Advanced recycling (Depolymerisation) companies and capacities (current and planned).
- Other advanced chemical recycling technologies
- Hydrothermal cracking
- Table Overview of hydrothermal cracking for advanced chemical recycling.
- Pyrolysis with in-line reforming
- Table Overview of Pyrolysis with in-line reforming for advanced chemical recycling.
- Microwave-assisted pyrolysis
- Table Overview of microwave-assisted pyrolysis for advanced chemical recycling.
- Plasma pyrolysis
- Table Overview of plasma pyrolysis for advanced chemical recycling.
- Plasma gasification
- Table Overview of plasma gasification for advanced chemical recycling.
- Supercritical fluids
- Carbon fiber recycling
- Table Summary of carbon fiber (CF) recycling technologies. Advantages and disadvantages.
- Table Retention rate of tensile properties of recovered carbon fibres by different recycling processes.
- Table Recycled carbon fiber producers, technology and capacity.
- Hydrothermal cracking
- Applications
- COMPANY PROFILES
- Aduro Clean Technologies, Inc.
- Agilyx
- Alpha Recyclage Composites
- Alterra Energy
- Ambercycle, Inc.
- Anellotech, Inc.
- Anhui Oursun Resource Technology Co., Ltd
- APChemi Pvt. Ltd.
- APK AG
- Aquafil S.p.A.
- ARCUS Greencycling GmbH
- Arkema
- Axens SA
- BASF
- Bcircular
- BioBTX B.V.
- Biofabrik Technologies GmbH
- Blest (Microengineer Co., Ltd.)
- Blue Cycle
- BlueAlp Technology
- Borealis AG
- Boston Materials LLC
- Braven Environmental, LLC
- Brightmark
- Cadel Deinking S.L.
- Carbios
- Carboliq GmbH
- Carbon Fiber Recycling LLC
- Cassandra Oil AB
- CIRC
- Chian Tianying
- Chevron Phillips Chemical
- Clariter
- Clean Planet Energy
- Corsair Group International
- Covestro
- CreaCycle GmbH
- CuRe Technology BV
- DePoly SA
- Dow Chemical Company
- Eastman Chemical Company
- Eco Fuel Technology, Inc
- Ecopek S.A.
- Eeden GmbH
- Emery Oleochemicals
- Encina Development Group, LLC
- Enerkem, Inc.
- Enval
- Environmental Solutions (Asia) Pte Ltd
- Epoch Biodesign
- Equipolymers GmbH
- Evonik Industries AG
- Evrnu
- Extracthive
- ExxonMobil
- Fairmat
- Fulcrum BioEnergy
- Futerro
- Fych Technologies
- Garbo S.r.l.
- GreenMantra Technologies
- Gr3n SA
- Handerek Technologies
- Hanwha Solutions
- Honeywell
- Hyundai Chemical
- Indaver nv
- InEnTec, Inc.
- INEOS Styrolution
- Infinited Fiber Company Oy
- Ioncell Oy
- Ioniqa Technologies B.V.
- Itero Technologies
- Jeplan, Inc.
- JFE Chemical Corporation
- Kaneka Corporation
- Khepra
- Klean Industries
- Lanzatech
- Loop Industries, Inc.
- LOTTE Chemical
- Lummus Technology LLC
- LyondellBasell Industries Holdings B.V.
- Metaspectral
- Mint Innovation
- Microwave Chemical Co. Ltd.
- Mitsubishi Chemical
- MolyWorks Materials
- Mote, Inc.
- Mura Technology
- Nanya Plastics Corporation
- NatureWorks
- Neste Oyj
- New Hope Energy
- Nexus Circular LLC
- Next Generation Group (NGR)
- Novoloop
- Olefy Technologies
- Orlen Unipetrol Rpa S.r.o.
- Österreichische Mineralölverwaltung (OMV)
- PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad
- Plastic Back
- Plastic Energy Limited
- Plastic2Oil, Inc.
- Plastogaz SA
- Poliloop
- Polycycl
- Polynate
- PolyStyreneLoop
- Polystyvert, Inc.
- Poseidon Plastics
- Premirr Plastics, Inc.
- Protein Evolution
- Pryme BV
- PureCycle Technologies
- Pyrowave
- Qairos Energies
- QuantaFuel ASA
- Recenso GmbH
- Recyc'ELIT
- ReNew ELP
- Re:newcell
- Renew One
- RePEaT Co., Ltd.
- Repsol
- Resiclo Oy
- revalyu Resources GmbH
- ReVital Polymers, Inc.
- Rittec Umwelttechnik GmbH
- Sabic
- Samsara Eco Pty Ltd.
- Saperatec GmbH
- Scindo
- SCG Chemicals
- Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
- Shell
- Showa Denko K.K.
- Shuye Environmental Technology
- Sierra Energy
- SK Global Chemical Co., Ltd.
- Sulzer Chemtech AG
- Sumitomo Chemical
- Sweet Gazoil
- Synova
- Synpet Technologies
- Technisoil Industrial
- Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd.
- TotalEnergies
- Toyo Styrene Co., Ltd.
- Trinseo
- Triple Helix
- Uflex
- Valoren
- Vartega Inc.
- Velocys
- Versalis SpA
- Wastefront
- Worn Again Technologies
- Xycle
- REFERENCES
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