Braskem and Nexus Circular have collaborated to build plastics chemical recycling facility in the USA
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Braskem S.A., the largest polyolefins producer and pioneer producer of biopolymers has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nexus Circular to work together on a new advanced recycling facility near Chicago. The new facility will have an initial capacity to convert over 30,000 metric tons annually of used plastic into new materials, with the potential to rapidly expand the processing capacity to over 120,000 metric tons annually.
Nexus Circular has developed its proprietary technology to convert landfill-bound films and other hard-to-recycle plastics into ISCC PLUS certified high-quality circular products. The process utilizes HDPE, LDPE, Polypropylene, and polystyrene used plastics as pyrolysis feedstocks, addressing 60% of global plastic waste. The pyrolysis feedstocks have been processed using only heat without oxygen at atmospheric pressure to break the long chains of the used plastic molecule into shorter chains in the form of gas, which is then cooled to form a circular liquid.