Materials science company Dow and advanced plastics recycling technology provider Mura Technology have announced the next step in an ongoing collaboration that was first announced in April 2021 to scale up advanced recycling solutions for plastics. Mura, with licensing and engineering partner KBR, plans to construct a new facility at Dow’s Böhlen, Germany, production site, one of several new plants planned by Dow and Mura in Europe and the U.S. and the first to be co-located with a Dow production plant. News of the project, which is targeted for a final investment decision by the end of 2023, was announced to the media during a live event in September.
Mura’s new Böhlen facility in Germany, which is expected to be operational by 2025, would deliver approximately 120 kilotons per annum (KTA) of advanced recycling capacity at full run-rate. This and the other planned units would collectively add as much as 600 KTA of advanced recycling capacity by 2030 and, according to Dow, would position it to become the largest consumer of circular feedstock for polyethylene production globally.
