Itero has announced that it has awarded the engineering contract for its full-scale advanced recycling plant in the Netherlands to global engineering, procurement and construction company Fluor Corporation.
“Fluor was an obvious partner for us, bringing significant global and domain-specific experience to the project,” said Itero CEO Simon Hansford.
Itero has been developing its expertise in thermal conversion (pyrolysis) technology since 2010, and views this as complementary to traditional recycling methods. The company has developed proprietary, patented technology, the IT300, is a large-scale, modular, patented technology that converts hard-to-recycle waste plastic back into a chemical feedstock for new circular plastic products. Called the IT300, it is a large-scale-modular system that enables waste plastic to be recycled continuously. Itero is currently carrying out feedstock and product testing at its pilot-scale R&D facility in the UK, while working on the development of this commercial-scale facility.
The new plant will have a capacity to annually convert 27,000 tonnes of plastic waste, otherwise destined for landfill or incineration, into oils, wax and gas that can be used as a raw material to produce new plastic and petrochemical products with a lower carbon footprint. Deployment of this technology also reduces the emissions associated with the disposal of plastic waste.
The plant will be built on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen, the Netherlands. The contract for the engineering work on the new plant is being executed by Fluor’s Amsterdam office in the Netherlands. Fluor will work alongside Itero and Brightlands to deliver the site-specific design of the end-to-end plant. The plant will create up to 30 local jobs, once operational.
The next step will then be to build a larger, multi-module commercial plant in the region, the company said.