Extrusion International 4-2023

23 Extrusion International 4/2023 cling technology to the current me- chanical technologies in the market and to the growing need to enable circularity for more waste streams going back to high-quality contact- sensitive output." Citeo, the leading Producer Re- sponsible Organization (PRO) in France, recently announced that Eastman, in a commercial partner- ship with Paprec, France's lead- ing integrated waste manage- ment company, has been selected to receive a significant amount of feedstock for the methano- lysis facility in Normandy. The Citeo agreement to secure French household waste has provided Eastman with a strong foundation for securing French-sourced waste for its project in France. Eastman also shared it has reached an additional agreement with Interzero, an innovation leader in plastics recycling with the largest sorting capacity in Europe, for an additional 25,000 metric tonnes of waste in addition to the 20,000 metric tonnes from a pre- vious agreement announced last year. Another agreement with a lead- ing company in the waste man- agement and recycling eco-system was reached at the end of last year. This agreement, adding ap- proximately 30,000 metric tonnes of waste, allows geographic cov- erage in strategic waste supplies. Eastman recently shared the de- cision to build the facility in two phases which will allow the facil- ity to recycle over 200,000 metric tonnes of hard-to-recycle polyes- ter waste annually, most of which is currently landfilled or inciner- ated today. Due to the updated plans, the company now expects phase 1 of the project to be me- chanically complete in 2026 and process 100,000 metric tonnes. Eastman will use its proven Poly- ester Renewal Technology (PRT) in France to recycle hard-to-recycle plastic waste that remains in a linear economy today. The com- pany's recycling technology allows this hard-to-recycle waste to be broken down into its molecular building blocks and then reassem- bled to become like new material without any compromise in quality and performance. Eastman's PRT enables the potentially infinite val- ue of materials by keeping them in production, lifecycle after life- cycle. With the technology's highly efficient yield and the renewable energy sources available at the Normandy location, Eastman can transform waste plastic into like new food contact polyesters with lower greenhouse gas emissions than traditional methods. In addition to this announced plant in France, Eastman is invest- ing in two other molecular recy- cling plants in the U.S. - Kingsport, Tennessee, and another U.S site to be announced later this year with an expected combined global in- vestment of approximately $2.25 billion for all three facilities. Eastman www.eastman.com www.sml.at Be sure not to miss SML at the PLAST MILAN 2023 Stand G1A Extrusion lines. Engineered to perform. Outstanding technology, and a high performance - that´s what makes our stretch film lines tick.