New Plant for Thermochemical Recycling of Plastic Waste
In summer 2025, German company PRUVIA GmbH intends to begin the construction work of “one of Europe’s largest commercial plastic-to-oil plants” at the chemical park InfraServ Gendorf in Bavaria. The start of operation is planned for the fourth quarter of 2026.
As reported, the process developed and patented by PRUVIA – an internationally operating clean-tech company in the field of plastics recycling – converts non-recyclable mixed plastic waste into non-fossil naphtha using a continuous pyrolysis process.
“This raw material recovered from waste can be used in the petrochemical industry to produce new plastics,” the company underscored. The new plant would replace fossil raw materials and at the same time contribute to the sustainable defossilization of the chemical industry through the environmentally friendly circular economy of plastics. According to the information, the plant would be able to process annual 35,000 tons of mixed plastic waste. The Bavarian company is initially investing a mid-double-digit million Euro amount in Gendorf and will employ around 30 people once the plant is commissioned. The doubling of the annual capacity to 70,000 tons is planned for 2028.
(Published in GLOBAL RECYCLING Magazine 2/2025, Page 12)
