TotalEnergies expands mechanical recycling production capacity

TotalEnergies expands mechanical recycling production capacity
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TotalEnergies, a broad energy company based in Paris, is doubling its mechanical recycling production capacity for recycled polymers to meet the growing demand for sustainable polymers for its customers. To do this, the company says it is expanding its Synova business in Normandy. Synova, which was acquired by TotalEnergies in 2019, is a producer of recycled polypropylene (PP) derived from industrial plastic scrap, household scrap and car parts.

TotalEnergies reports that it is installing two new production lines at Synova’s facility in Normandy, which will produce almost 45,000 tons of recycled PP per year using mechanical recycling methods, including one range containing fiber glass.

“After announcing in 2020 at our zero-crude platform at Grandpuits, the first chemical recycling plant and our second bio-based and biodegradable plastic production plant, the Synova extension has now doubled our mechanical recycling production capacity in France,” says Valérie Goff, senior vice president of polymers for TotalEnergies’ Refining & Chemicals business segment. “We are perfectly positioned to meet our customers’ growing demand for more efficient and environmentally friendly polymers, all the while providing concrete answers to the challenge of managing end-of-life plastics. This investment will contribute to our ambition for 2030 of producing 30 percent recycled and renewable polymers.”

According to a news release from TotalEnergies, the France-based energy company is working on both mechanical and chemical recycling processes. The company is performing mechanical recycling through its Synova subsidiary. In chemical recycling, TotalEnergies announced in September the construction of France’s first chemical recycling plant on its Grandpuits zero-crude platform. The company says that plant will use Plastic Energy’s technology to transform plastic scrap that is not generally recyclable into a pyrolysis oil that will be used as a feedstock in TotalEnergies’ steam crackers to produce polymers with properties similar to virgin polymers.

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Source: Recycling Today
TotalEnergies expands mechanical recycling production capacity
<![CDATA[TotalEnergies, a broad energy company based in Paris, is doubling its mechanical recycling production capacity for recycled polymers to meet the growing demand for sustainable polymers for its customers. To do this, the company says it is expanding its Synova business in Normandy. Synova, which was acquired by TotalEnergies in 2019, is a producer of recycled polypropylene (PP) derived from industrial plastic scrap, household scrap and car parts. TotalEnergies reports that it is installing two new production lines at Synova’s facility in Normandy, which will produce almost 45,000 tons of recycled PP per year using mechanical recycling methods, including one range containing fiber glass. “After announcing in 2020 at our zero-crude platform at Grandpuits, the first chemical recycling plant and our second bio-based and biodegradable plastic production plant, the Synova extension has now doubled our mechanical recycling production capacity in France,” says Valérie Goff, senior vice president of polymers for TotalEnergies’ Refining & Chemicals business segment. “We are perfectly positioned to meet our customers’ growing demand for more efficient and environmentally friendly polymers, all the while providing concrete answers to the challenge of managing end-of-life plastics. This investment will contribute to our ambition for 2030 of producing 30 percent recycled…