Chemical Recycling Facility in Rotterdam

planned

WPU, a portfolio company of Denmark-based Vitol, plans to build a chemical recycling plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The facility will process 80,000 metric tons per year of postconsumer end-of-life plastic using proprietary batch pyrolysis technology to convert plastic into pyrolysis oil, which can be used as feedstock for circular chemicals and new plastics with lower carbon intensity than fossil naphtha. The plant will be adjacent to an existing Vitol refinery and aims to expand WPU's total recycling capacity to 100,000 metric tons per year.