Mura Technology, the global pioneer of a next generation advanced plastic recycling solution, has announced plans to develop a 50 kilotons per annum (kta) facility in Singapore.

Mura Technology will develop an advanced recycling facility in Singapore.

The new facility will be located on Jurong Island within the Singapore Essential Chemicals Complex (SECC), where Mura has recently secured rights to a site from PCS Pte. Ltd. (PCS). Mura has also opened a Singapore office to support this strategic expansion.

The site’s location within PCS’s SECC offers significant integrational advantages, including direct pipeline connections to potential customers, proximity to necessary utilities, and access to skilled personnel.

The Singapore facility, which will have scope to increase in size to 100kta, will utilize Mura’s pioneering Hydro-PRT technology, to efficiently convert plastic waste into valuable circular hydrocarbon products that can be used to create virgin-quality recycled plastic materials.

Hydro-PRT process

Pioneered by Mura Technology, the Hydro-PRT process is the next generation of advanced plastic recycling due to its use of supercritical water, which is water under elevated pressure and temperature, above its critical point.

This process distinguishes itself from alternative advanced recycling processes such as pyrolysis, ensuring the efficient and scalable conversion of plastic waste to circular hydrocarbons.

Hydro-PRT can process contaminated and mixed plastics, such as flexible and rigid food packaging, producing high yields of circular hydrocarbon products for use in the manufacture of virgin-quality, recycled plastics.

It has the potential to significantly reduce the need for fossil resources in plastic production and permanently increase material circularity in the plastics industry.

Global network

This expansion to Singapore marks a significant milestone in the company’s expansion across Asia, joining existing facilities operated under license from Mura by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation in Japan and currently being commissioned by LG Chem in South Korea.

This project also builds on Mura’s growing global presence, with the company’s first commercial-scale site in Teesside, UK, which is expected to commence operations by Q4, 2025.