Technip Energies and Anellotech, Inc. announced they have signed a global joint development agreement to work cooperatively to further develop and then license Anellotech?s Plas-TCat? process, a one-step thermal-catalytic recycling technology that converts mixed plastic wastes back into its constituent basic chemicals, with a specific focus to benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX) that can be used to make most virgin plastics. The companies will bring their combined process technology expertise and know-how to complete comprehensive performance trials at Anellotech?s 100 tonnes/year nameplate feed rate demonstration plant in Silsbee, Texas.

It will incorporate Technip Energies? downstream processing units, leading to a process design for use by Technip Energies in its role as the global Plas-TCat? licensor.

The Plas-TCat? process can feed all major plastics with predictable end-product yields. This process can reduce CO2 emission up to 50% compared to the production of virgin monomers in naphtha crackers.