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CHEMICAL RECYCLING

Revalyu Resources commissions second PET recycling

plant at Nashik site
Revalyu Resources, a leading chemi-
cal PET recycling company with a
global presence, has commissioned its
second technology-leading polyethy-
lene terephthalate (PET) recycling plant
at its site in Nashik, to further bolster its
production capacity and meet growing
customer demands.

The Revalyu Group is headquar- Revalyu Resources Nashik site
tered in Germany and majority-owned impurities before being repolymerised.
by Heraeus, a German global techno- The low temperature ensures the integ- Dr. Vivek Tandon, Mr. Jan van Kisfeld and
logy group. Revalyu Resources owns rity of molecular bonds during depoly- Mr. Makarand Kulkarni
operations in India (Revalyu Recycling merisation and lowers energy use and conventional PET in any polyester or PET
(India) Ltd.) and the USA (Revalyu cost versus high-temperature depoly- application. “Our new plant demon-
(US) LLC). merisation. strates two critical achievements: fi rst,
that this chemical recycling process is
The recent commissioning of the According to Revalyu, its recycling commercially viable on a global scale,
second plant means the revalyu site process uses 91% less energy and 75% and second, that it operates with an im-
now recycles over 20-mn used PET less water than conventional PET recyc- pressively low environmental footprint.
bottles a day into 160-tpd (tonnes per ling. In addition, Revalyu uses mono- Our new facility serves customers with
day) of high-quality PET chips and PET ethylene glycol (MEG), which is one of high-quality 100% recycled PET simi-
polymer. This is being used by custo- the two components of polyester, as a lar to conventional PET and supports
mers to meet their sustainability targets solvent. Thus, the process includes no them in reaching their sustainability
in applications from diverse sectors chemicals foreign or toxic to polyester. goals.”
such as PET bottle, packaging materials,
textiles, automobile accessories and a “This is a revolutionary moment “Our Nashik site underscores our
wide variety of other PET copolymer- for the PET plastic recycling industry. strategic vision of reinforcing our lead-
based products. Finally, the world has a commercially ership position in the PET recycling
proven, scalable, profi table and envi- landscape globally. This environmen-
The third plant is fully fi nanced ronmentally sustainable recycling tech- tally sustainable chemical recycling
as part of a $100-mn investment and nology that can truly reverse engineer process is scalable and replicable and
under construction, which will add a used PET plastic into virgin grade that gives our customers an edge in
further 120-tpd of capacity in Q3 2025. quality PET polymer,” said Dr. Vivek their respective markets, the technology
This will increase the site’s recycling Tandon, Founder, revalyu Group. “We is a game changer. We will continue to
capacity to approximately 35-mn post- continue to seek global partners to explore collaborations globally to build
consumer PET bottles a day and total join us in our global expansion as we scale and create market opportunities,”
production capacity of PET chips to continue to drive innovation to deliver added Mr. Makarand Kulkarni, CEO,
280-tpd. the highest quality sustainable polymer revalyu India.
to customers and take care of our planet
Glycolysis technology for our future generations.” US plant planned
The company’s chemical recycling Revalyu Resources will set up a
technology uses low-temperature glyco- According to revalyu Group’s 240-tpd PET recycling facility in the
lysis to depolymerise post-consumer Managing Director, Mr. Jan van Kis- US by 2027 and has plans to expand
PET bottles into monomers. The mono- feld, the 100% post-consumer recycled globally with partnerships to increase its
mers are then fi ltered to remove all polymer can seamlessly replace production to over 1,000-tpd by 2030.

132 Chemical Weekly November 26, 2024

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