Recycling technology company Itero has announced its plans to build an innovative plant for recycling plastic waste at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands. The plant will use Itero’s patented pyrolysis technology to convert waste plastics into oils, wax and gas that can be used to produce new plastic and petrochemical products.

Itero has created a leading technology that converts hard-to-recycle plastic waste into a raw material that can be used to produce new plastic products. The company is on a mission to help solve the global waste plastic problem.

The highly efficient process reduces emissions associated with both the disposal of plastics by landfill and incineration, and the production of new plastics from fossil-derived petrochemicals. Itero believes that its proven technology can provide a solution to the problem of recycling plastic waste in an environmentally efficient way, while sitting alongside traditional recycling methods.

 Engineering drawing of the Itero plant technology.

The creation of a first Itero demonstration plant will deliver a commercial-scale facility with a capacity to process 27 kilotons of mixed and contaminated waste plastics per year. The plant will be located at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus, Europe’s first Circular Hub. The plant will require an investment of €25 million and is due to be operational from 2023.

Although the plant will initially have a maximum capacity of 27 kilotons per year, Itero plans to build a larger scale commercial facility in the local region with other opportunities for expansion being explored. The initial demonstration plant represents a single module recycling facility, which can be scaled up at future plant locations by adding modules side-by-side. 

Itero signed a lease statement with Brightlands at the end of 2020 to set up a base of operations at the campus, with construction of the demonstration plant expected to commence in the second quarter of 2022. In the meantime, Itero is working on further optimizing its production process using its UK R&D facility.

Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittart-Geleen NL.

“With the advice of industry experts at Infinity Recycling, we looked at several potential locations on the continent, in the UK and in the Netherlands,” said Itero CEO, Simon Hansford, explaining the choice for Brightlands Chemelot Campus, “but the facilities at Geleen and the support are perfect. We are fully onboard with the Chemelot Circular Hub philosophy.”

Bert Kip, CEO of Brightlands Chemelot Campus, added, “As a campus, we are committed to a circular future and are one of the partners in the regional alliance dedicated to achieving this, the Chemelot Circular Hub. Itero is a perfect fit in this environment and will help strengthen our ecosystem of parties with groundbreaking technologies to make new raw materials from plastic and other waste.”

Ruud Burlet is a member of the Provincial Executive for Circular Economy and Environment on behalf of the Province of Limburg, commented, “Chemelot Circular Hub is doing very well! The pace at which new initiatives are presented is in line with our ambitious future plan to make circularity the engine of our Limburg economy.”

Recycling technology company Itero has announced its plans to build an innovative plant for recycling plastic waste at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands. The plant will use Itero’s patented pyrolysis technology to convert waste plastics into oils, wax and gas that can be used to produce new plastic and petrochemical products.

Itero has created a leading technology that converts hard-to-recycle plastic waste into a raw material that can be used to produce new plastic products. The company is on a mission to help solve the global waste plastic problem.

The highly efficient process reduces emissions associated with both the disposal of plastics by landfill and incineration, and the production of new plastics from fossil-derived petrochemicals. Itero believes that its proven technology can provide a solution to the problem of recycling plastic waste in an environmentally efficient way, while sitting alongside traditional recycling methods.

 Engineering drawing of the Itero plant technology.

The creation of a first Itero demonstration plant will deliver a commercial-scale facility with a capacity to process 27 kilotons of mixed and contaminated waste plastics per year. The plant will be located at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus, Europe’s first Circular Hub. The plant will require an investment of €25 million and is due to be operational from 2023.

Although the plant will initially have a maximum capacity of 27 kilotons per year, Itero plans to build a larger scale commercial facility in the local region with other opportunities for expansion being explored. The initial demonstration plant represents a single module recycling facility, which can be scaled up at future plant locations by adding modules side-by-side. 

Itero signed a lease statement with Brightlands at the end of 2020 to set up a base of operations at the campus, with construction of the demonstration plant expected to commence in the second quarter of 2022. In the meantime, Itero is working on further optimizing its production process using its UK R&D facility.

Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittart-Geleen NL.

“With the advice of industry experts at Infinity Recycling, we looked at several potential locations on the continent, in the UK and in the Netherlands,” said Itero CEO, Simon Hansford, explaining the choice for Brightlands Chemelot Campus, “but the facilities at Geleen and the support are perfect. We are fully onboard with the Chemelot Circular Hub philosophy.”

Bert Kip, CEO of Brightlands Chemelot Campus, added, “As a campus, we are committed to a circular future and are one of the partners in the regional alliance dedicated to achieving this, the Chemelot Circular Hub. Itero is a perfect fit in this environment and will help strengthen our ecosystem of parties with groundbreaking technologies to make new raw materials from plastic and other waste.”

Ruud Burlet is a member of the Provincial Executive for Circular Economy and Environment on behalf of the Province of Limburg, commented, “Chemelot Circular Hub is doing very well! The pace at which new initiatives are presented is in line with our ambitious future plan to make circularity the engine of our Limburg economy.”