Mura Technology signs supplier agreement with UK firm – Recycling Today

Chemical recycling plant operator Mura Technology will receive plastic scrap grades from Elite Recycling Solutions.
Mura Technology, which is building a hydrothermal advanced recycling facility in Teesside, England, has signed a feedstock supply contract with Elite Recycling Solutions, based in Stanstead Abbotts, England.
According to Mura, Elite will supply postconsumer plastic packaging to the Mura plant in Wilton, which currently is in its final commissioning phase and expected to commence operations soon.
Using its Hydro-PRT process, Mura will convert inbound scrap into hydrocarbon products it says can be used to make new plastic.
The agreement with Elite follows an existing agreement between Mura Technology and Norway-based Geminor, who will act as the principal feedstock supplier for Teesside. 
“We are delighted to partner with another industry leading company in the waste management sector,” Mura Technology CEO Dr. Steve Mahon says. “Cross-sector collaboration of this kind is enabling us to turn postuse plastic into a valuable commodity used to create fossil-replacement feedstocks for the manufacture of new plastic products.”
"Mura Technology’s unique Hydro-PRT process will enable us to work closely with our clients to recycle unrecyclable plastics, reduce waste and increase recycling rates, and to deliver cost savings, as landfill and incineration taxes increase in the near future—all of which plays a key part in driving our clients’ environmental and sustainability credentials," adds Chris Smits, managing director at Elite Recycling Solutions.
This March, Mura signed an offtake agreement with Finland-based Neste, which will convert products from Teesside into feedstock for the production of new plastics starting this year.
“At Neste, we will need increasing amounts of product derived from plastic [scrap] and want to enable investments into the sector by providing a flexible offtake for our partners’ developing capacity,” Neste Vice President Heikki Färkkilä said at that time. “Mura is helping provide scale to process large volumes of [scrap] plastics into circular feedstocks to meet this demand.”
Mura Technology’s Hydro-PRT process uses “supercritical water” (water under elevated pressure and temperature), which it says distinguishes it from alternative recycling processes such as pyrolysis.
“The use of supercritical water ensures efficient and scalable conversion of plastic [scrap] to hydrocarbons, enables the recycling of a wide range plastics, such as postconsumer packaging, and results in high yields of recycled hydrocarbons for use in the manufacture of virgin-quality, recycled plastics,” Mura says.
Via this process, Mura says there is no limit to the number of times the same material can be recycled, meaning Hydro-PRT has the potential to reduce the need for fossil fuel-based resources in plastic production and permanently increase material circularity in the plastics industry. 
The company also says its process targets discarded materials not usually handled by mechanical sorting and reprocessing methods, calling it a "complementary process to operate alongside traditional mechanical recycling, not compete with it.”

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