DePoly has established a showcase plant in Monthey, Switzerland for its recycling technology, said to break down PET waste into its original chemical components and recreate virgin-quality raw materials with no loss of performance, suitable for all PET applications.
Claimed to be the ‘first depolymerization facility of its kind and scale’ in Switzerland, the company says it marks part of its journey towards commercialization. The plant’s inauguration on the 6th and 7th of July brought together several of DePoly’s investors including Una Terra Venture Capital, Infinity, BASF and Beiersdorf.
Expected to create 12 direct jobs and over 30 indirect jobs, the showcase plant is due to have a nominal capacity of around 500 tonnes of feedstock input per year. DePoly states the plant will enable it to demonstrate its technology at industrial scale, qualify its products with customers and gather the operational data needed to deploy its future commercial facilities.
It also aims to optimize the process and qualify raw materials with industrial customers. The company adds that the insights and process built at the Monthey site will feed into the development of its first commercial plant, targeting a capacity of 50,000 tonnes a year with the location due to be announced in the first half of 2027.
In related news, the European Union’s Just Transition Fund has awarded BlueAlp and LBC Tank Terminals a €1.5 million grant to support their large-scale chemical recycling plant through the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase. The phase will cover technical feasibility, detailed engineering, logistics, site implementation, terminal integration, permitting and financing.
Plastipak recently revealed its pakPET Single Pellet Solution, designed to help manufacturers increase recycled content while maintaining packaging quality, consistency and operational efficiency. According to the company, the ready-to-use resin is suitable for applications including beverage and food containers, personal care packaging and thermoforming applications.
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