ReVentas, a company developing advanced solvent-based plastics recycling technology, has signed an engineering and licensing alliance agreement with KBR. According to the companies, the agreement is intended to strengthen ReVentas' position in the emerging dissolution recycling market and accelerate the international deployment of this technology through the engineering, technology and services capabilities of its partner. The proprietary process developed by ReVentas is designed to process post-consumer polyethylene and polypropylene waste streams. The technology purifies the plastic by removing colours, contaminants and complex waste-stream components, and then produces a natural pellet with properties close to virgin material. The solution is intended to enable the reprocessing of waste that would otherwise be downcycled, landfilled or incinerated into high-quality recycled resins for applications such as food packaging and automotive manufacturing.
The companies indicate that demand from brands for scalable, high-performance recycling solutions capable of delivering food-contact approved resins continues to grow rapidly. Pressure to secure reliable supplies of high-quality recycled plastics is affecting packaging converters, consumer goods manufacturers and resin producers. In this context, combining ReVentas' recycling technology with KBR's global engineering and technology licensing capabilities is intended to provide customers with a faster and more predictable route to new recycling capacity.
Deployment plans and plant capacity
ReVentas is currently completing the front-end engineering design phase for its first commercial demonstration plant. The installation is expected to produce 10,000 tonnes per year of recycled HDPE. Commissioning of the plant is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2028. The company also states further deployment plans targeting more than 750,000 tonnes of ReVentas technology capacity by 2036.
Statements from the partners
Tom Rose, Chief Executive Officer of ReVentas, said: "Our customers are looking for natural virgin-like material with a low carbon footprint at a competitive price, something neither mechanical nor chemical recycling can achieve today. This is exactly what our dissolution technology can deliver."
He also added: "We selected KBR as our engineering and licensing partner because of its strong engineering capabilities, international reach and experience in deploying chemical and recycling technologies at industrial scale."
As Tom Rose emphasised: "This alliance will help ReVentas move faster and deliver the capacity our industrial partners require, while also establishing dissolution recycling as one of the key solutions for plastics circularity."
Hari Ravindran, Senior Vice President and Global Head of KBR Technology Solutions, stated: "We look forward to collaborating with ReVentas and adding commercial value to this technology, as it has been designed to further improve plastics recycling. Moreover, this process complements KBR's capabilities in advanced recycling technology. KBR will fully support the scale-up and licensing of this platform and accelerate the delivery of practical, commercially robust solutions for plastics circularity to the industry."
CEO and Founder, Tom Rose, holding virgin-like recycled film
