(Alliance News) - MAIRE Spa has announced that its subsidiary Nextchem, through MyRemono, has signed a Toll Manufacturing agreement with Röhm, under which Röhm will provide MyRemono with waste PMMA to be processed and chemically transformed into ultrapure monomers of virgin-like quality.
As the company explains, this initiative leverages Nextchem's proprietary NXRe technology, a continuous depolymerization process that enables chemical recycling of PMMA efficiently.
Röhm will also act as an off-taker of the recycled methacrylate monomer, to be reused for the production of new PMMA products in a fully circular process. The agreement includes the payment of a processing fee by Röhm to MyRemono.
The initiative follows the creation of a European consortium aimed at supporting PMMA circularity, which includes MyRemono, Röhm, Pekutherm, and Polyvantis. Pekutherm will handle logistics and sorting of PMMA materials while Polyvantis will handle mechanical recycling.
MyRemono will carry out chemical recycling of PMMA scrap in its first industrial-scale plant, currently under development in Italy with support from the European Innovation Fund. The plant, expected to be completed in 2026, will have an initial processing capacity of about 5,000 tons per year of PMMA, an amount needed to produce about 10 million car taillights, demonstrating how significant volumes of recycled material can replace virgin resources in production.
Compared to current virgin MMA production processes, recycled MMA produced with NXRe PMMA Technology is expected to reduce the carbon footprint by more than 90 percent.
"With this partnership, Nextchem lays the foundation for the licensing of NXRe PMMA Technology, a key component for the future development of chemical depolymerization of other value-added materials, such as polystyrene and polyolefins," said MAIRE.
Alessandro Bernini, CEO of MAIRE, commented, "Our NXRe PMMA technology will play a key role in the circular economy, forming one of the key pillars of our value proposition for sustainable materials. The establishment of this World's first advanced recycling plant and the creation of this consortium are a clear recognition of the relevance and validity of disruptive technologies that respond to contemporary challenges."
By Giuseppe Fabio Ciccomascolo, Alliance News senior reporter
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