Syre taps Jeplan’s T2T recycling technology
Swedish recycling tech company Syre, which is backed by H&M, has announced a partnership with Japan’s Jeplan. Jeplan has developed a depolymerisation process for polyester textiles using glycolysis as a solvent, which yields BHET, one of two pathways to produce polyester. It operates two chemical recycling facilities, in Kawasaki and Kitakyushu, at demonstration and semi-industrial scale. It has also set up a licensing division to commercialise its PET recycling technology.
“Through Jeplan’s technical and operational experience built over more than a decade, we can move much faster to commercialisation,” commented Syre CEO Dennis Nobelius.
Earlier this week, Syre had announced a partnership with electrification and automation specialist ABB, headquartered in Sweden, to contribute to the engineering of Syre’s projected factory in Gia Lai province, Vietnam.
Launched only two years ago, Syre has a pilot production line in operation in Mebane, North Carolina that now has “multi-tonne” production capacity of recycled PET chips made from polyester textiles. Construction of the start-up’s first large-scale facility in Vietnam is expected to begin next year.
Photo shows Jeplan's demo plant
