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Plastic waste is increasing rapidly, bringing larger landfills and greater environmental strain. To help turn this growing problem into a valuable resource, we examined over 200 impurities that can emerge when the plastic waste is cracked into a valuable olefin-rich gas. Dive into the full findings and how our insights can advance direct thermochemical recycling and help achieve plastic circularity in the article. - Robin Zwart (Technology & Product Development Manager)

🎤 I’m speaking at ERTC 2025 in Cannes! The event is almost here, bringing together 1,200+ senior refining & petrochemical leaders to tackle the industry’s biggest challenges. https://lnkd.in/ez-xim6Q Join me on November 20th to hear about SYNOVA's innovative process to make syngas from biomass and waste. Instead of increasing the temperature downstream of a gasifier to reform tars, it cools the gas. Tars and particles are effectively removed with our proprietary technology and the gas is subsequently cleaned from contaminants like sulfur and chlorine. Methane and other light hydrocarbons remain untouched. The clean gas can subsequently be compressed and reformed into syngas in systems commonly applied for the reforming of natural gas. #ERTC25 #downstream #refining #SYNOVA

Delegations from almost 180 countries are currently meeting in Geneva to discuss how to end plastic pollution on our planet. In his book Waste Wars, Alexander Clapp notes that plastic waste trading is essentially the only form of trade that flows from rich to poor countries. The reason is clear: plastic waste has no or negative value. If waste plastics had a positive value, people wouldn’t dispose of them, but they would collect them. After all, nobody throws away money. Creating demand for recycled plastics is key to preventing plastic pollution. SYNOVA has developed a robust method to recycle plastic waste into virgin-quality material while also reducing CO₂ emissions. But it needs the demand.

Recycling has historically been closely tied to sorting: the sorting process produces a relatively pure material, which the recycling unit then turns into a new recycled product. But what if the recycling process could handle part of the sorting itself? Not in the traditional way, but through chemical sorting. This is exactly what SYNOVA offers with its plastic recycling solution. It relaxes the need for traditional sorting, avoids material losses, and reduces costs. It adds a whole new dimension to “design-to-recycle.” We will be presenting this solution at next week’s AMI event on Chemical Recycling in Brussels. Meet us there! https://lnkd.in/ewfdPh2

Less than two weeks until the Chemical Recycling event in Brussels, Belgium (24-26 June 2025). This is your chance to explore the developments in chemical recycling technologies, including a presentation from Bram van der Drift at SYNOVA on: Producing olefins from waste at high temperature by cracking, and it is not gasification - Conversion of waste at 750⸰ C keeps the chemicals in play - The gaseous product makes removal of contaminants relatively easy - Feedstock may contain water, inert, polyesters, and biogenic residues Join us this month, book your place today: https://lnkd.in/ewfdPh2 #ChemicalRecycling #AMIChemRecycling #AdvancedRecycling #recycling #Sustainability #Innovation #BookNow #Technology

We look forward to presenting the following graph at the upcoming Conference on Chemical Recycling of Plastics, taking place in Brussels, 24–26 June 2025. The graph illustrates how SYNOVA’s solution compares to other recycling technologies. The horizontal axis represents the feedstock potential, the proportion of mixed waste, such as municipal solid waste (MSW), that can be used as input for the process. The vertical axis shows the CO₂ reduction potential, based on publicly available data from independent sources. A general trend can be observed: increased feedstock potential tends to come at the cost of reduced CO₂ savings, indicated by the downward grey arrow. In other words, more circularity often means a higher carbon footprint. SYNOVA’s recycling process does not follow this trend at all. It achieves both high feedstock flexibility and significant CO₂ reductions, positioning it distinctly from other technologies on the chart. We will explain how this is achieved during the conference. We hope to see you in Brussels. https://lnkd.in/eyg7xf9e

Ahead of the Chemical Recycling event (24-26 June 2025) in Brussels, Belgium, our sponsor SYNOVA shared what they are looking forward to at the event next month. https://lnkd.in/ewfdPh2 "SYNOVA is happy to sponsor and present at the Chemical Recycling event in Brussels. We're looking forward to engaging with others in the sector as we explore practical ways to move towards a more circular chemical industry. Our presentation: “Producing olefins from waste at high temperature by cracking – and it is not gasification,” will highlight SYNOVA’s advanced technology that converts mixed waste into clean olefins at 750°C. We’re excited to contribute to the conversation on circular chemistry and to demonstrate how SYNOVA's approach can help close the loop on plastics and other waste materials." https://lnkd.in/eQarRUmg

Hot sand can be a real pain, but it's perfect if you want to heat up something quickly. That’s exactly what we do at SYNOVA. Inside our reactor, a lot of hot sand heats plastic waste extremely fast. This is how the waste is broken down into the building blocks for new plastics. No expensive materials, just sand doing the job! Check out how we use hot sand in plastic recycling: https://lnkd.in/ekUbErDA

Two quotes that made our hearts jump: „When pyrolysis is performed at higher temperature (700-800°C), olefins are a large part of the primary products. We call this route the direct conversion route for this reason.“ „We would like to focus further on the direct conversion route in the coming part of the project, due to the promising results we obtained for this route.” These are conclusions after two years of work by a consortium of 21 partners from industry, science, education, government, and networks across Europe on the recycling of plastics. See: https://lnkd.in/eUMjk6MN.   Direct conversion has indeed big economic benefits compared to classical pyrolysis. These are the three main reasons: (1) the direct route shows high yields of olefins because a single conversion step comes with less thermodynamic losses as compared to multiple steps, (2) the relatively high temperature reduces the sensitivity towards feedstock composition meaning that very cheap feedstocks can be used that are readily available, and (3) the fluidized bed technology has no inherent heat transfer limitations and therefore can be deployed at large scale.   Curious to hear more about our direct conversion solution, check out our website or contact us directly: https://synovatech.com/