TRADE SHOW REVIEW PETplanet Insider Vol. 25 No. 0/24 www.petpla.net 44 Microwave assisted depolymerisation recycling technology On March 7, 2024, Gr3n invited customers and companies involved in the development of its Microwave Assisted DEpolymerisation (MADE) recycling technology to the launch of the industrial demonstration plant. The company completed the last stage before commercialisation of its new technology. Gr3n has developed a new alkaline hydrolysis process to recycle all packaging and textile PET waste into building blocks with its technology, which was installed on Gr3n’s research and manufacturing facility in Albese con Cassano, near Lake Como, Italy. “This is another step ahead for Gr3n, as it will allow us to increase our capacity and then test the material, that we can produce with our own polymerisation line, for several applications ,” said Dr Maurizio Crippa, Gr3n Founder and Chief Executive Officer. “When you develop a new process, the upscaling is a pivotal step. Being able to receive feedstock and transform it into new PET chips at scale will help us demonstrate that obtaining pure monomers is the only way to obtain virgin like PET”. The demo plant will be able to shred the input material, depolymerise it, purify TPA and MEG using a solid process, and then producing new PET chips via a dedicated 500 kg polymerisation reactor. This new industrial demonstration plant was designed as the industrial plant, with technical solution that can be easily scalable, and in some cases, like crystallisation and distillation, using “state of the art” technology. An initial hydrolysis has been successfully realised, confirming the upscaling of the process; the optimisation of the operating parameters is still underway. Maurizio Crippa, PhD, CEO of Gr3n, welcomed the audience. With Netstal’s leading preform injection molding technology. Our PET-Line impresses with broadest compatibility, maximum throughput, exceptional ĆďĆēĈĚ ĆħĄĊĆďĄĚ ĐđĕĊĎĂč đēĐĄĆĔĔĊďĈ Đć ē÷ìû Ăďą other challenging recyclates, and with its intuitive Axos control unit. Wemaximize your added value Preforms
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