Addressing the challenges of achieving sustainability and circularity, chemical recycling technologies provide alternatives to landfilling and incineration by converting mixed and/or contaminated plastic waste back into ‘virgin-like’ raw materials.
Certech has many years of expertise in the field of (thermo)chemical recycling for the transformation of plastic waste into valuable products. Certech equipment comprises laboratory-scale reactors for exploratory tests as well as a pilot reactor (20 L) allowing the evaluation on a larger scale, in a batch or continuous mode.
Indaver, a leading company in recycling activities, has been collaborating with Certech on the development of a process to recover chemicals from plastic wastes. These products can be valorized as raw materials to synthesize new polymers, for example for the production of food packaging (direct contact).
Within the frame of its advanced recycling of end-of-life plastics (“Plastics2Chemicals”), Indaver has built in Belgium a plastic waste pretreatment facility (Willebroek) and an advanced recycling plant (Port of Antwerp). This recycling plant started its operations in 2025 at 26 000 tons per year, the goal being to expand it further by 2028 into Europe’s largest depolymerization facility, with a capacity of 65,000 tons per year.
