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28 Extrusion International 5/2022 INDUSTRY NEWS Agreement on the Production and Procurement of Polyrolysis Oil fromMixed PlasticWaste Market Study: Plastics  BASF has concluded a framework agreement for the purchase of pyrol- ysis oil from mixed plastic waste with ARCUS Greencycling Technologies. The two companies want to con- tribute their respective know-how to the value chain in order to return plastic waste that is not recycled me- chanically in the sense of a circular economy and reduce CO2 emissions. ARCUS will supply BASF with pyroly- sis oil and expand its capacities in the coming years. BASF will use the oil in its production plants as a raw mate- rial for the production of Ccycled™ products. The ARCUS process demonstration unit built in Frankfurt is the first of its kind on a commercial scale in Ger- many and produces pyrolysis oil from mixed plastic waste that is not re - cycled mechanically. “With the guar- anteed purchase of the oil produced, ARCUS can build further plants with higher capacity and thus make a sig- nificant contribution to closing mate - rial cycles together with BASF,” said Daniel Odenthal, Chief Operating Officer of ARCUS Greencycling Tech - nologies. The agreement foresees the take-up to be increased to up to 100,000 tons of pyrolysis oil per year. The agreement is another build- ing block in the expansion of BASF’s ChemCyclingTM business, which fo- cuses on the chemical recycling of non-recycled post-consumer plastic waste on an industrial scale. BASF will feed the pyrolysis oil supplied by ARCUS into its production network in Ludwigshafen, replacing fossil re- sources. The proportion of recycled raw material is allocated to products manufactured in the Verbund using a mass balance approach. The attribu- tion is checked by an independent auditor. The products that bear the name suffix “Ccycled™” have exactly the same properties as conventionally manufactured prod- ucts. Customers can therefore process them in the same way and also use them in appli- cations that place high demands on quality and performance. BASF SE www.basf.com ARCUS Greencycling Technologies GmbH www.arcus-greencycling.com  Plastics play a major role in the "Green Deal" that aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. EU initiatives for circular economy and bioeconomy pro- mote recycling and bioplastics, whereas plastic waste and micro- plastics are to be restricted. Fur- ther, Europe wants to become less dependent on oil and gas imports. Despite crises and conflicts, nearly 57 million tonnes of plastics were sold in Europe last year, around 3 million tonnes more than in 2015. This is the second time Ceresana has analyzed the entire European market for all commercially im- portant plastics: from mass-produced standard polymers, such as polyeth- ylene, polypropylene, PET or PVC, to high-performance plastics needed for lightweight construction and spe- cial technical applications. The study in brief: Chapter 1 provides a detailed pre- sentation and analysis of the Euro- pean market for plastics – including forecasts to 2031. It further examines the various application areas of plas- tics and types of plastics are con- sidered individually. Chapter 2 considers 23 countries individually: Demand, revenues, production and trade of plastics. Total production and trade vol- umes are broken down by type of plastic. The development of total demand is reported for each type of plastic and application. Chapter 3 provides useful com- pany profiles of the most impor - tant European manufacturers of plastics, clearly structured by contact details, revenues, profit, product range, production sites and brief profile. Detailed profiles are provided by 114 manufacturers. Ceresana www.ceresana.com/en/market-studies/ plastics/plastics-europe/