Green tie-ups: Novoloop/Shanghai Huide Science partner on TPU from recycled materials; Stavian partners Starlinger, Amut for rPET plant in Vietnam

US firm Novoloop has tied up with Shanghai Huide Science & Technology Co., Ltd. to scale the production of Novoloop’s Lifecycled thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). The collaboration is formalised through a five-year ggreement, which establishes long-term clarity on supply, pricing, and quality standards.

Novoloop has developed a proprietary chemical process that converts post-consumer PE waste into virgin-quality Lifecycled polyols and polyurethane. This breakthrough technology enables materials traditionally made from fossil resources to be sourced instead from hard-to-recycle waste plastics.

Huide has spent nearly 30 years advancing PU technologies, developing an end-to-end capability from R&D and process scale-up to manufacturing and supply-chain management, providing the foundation to translate material innovation into scalable industrial solutions.

Together, Novoloop and Huide have successfully produced multiple batches of Lifecycled 67A TPU on commercial reactive extrusion lines using Novoloop’s Lifecycled polyol and formulations. These batches have met all in-spec quality and performance requirements, confirming the viability of scaling TPU production with circular inputs.

Under the terms of the agreement, the partners will also establish Global Recycled Standard (GRS) traceability and reporting as output expands, while laying a framework to onboard additional grades of Lifecycled TPU in the future.

In other news, Vietnam-based Stavian Recycling Joint Stock Company (Stavian Recycling) has signed an MoU with recycling machinery maker Starlinger & Co. GmbH (Austria) and extrusion machinery maker Amut S.p.A. (Italy) to set up a rPET recycling plant at the Stavian Recycling Complex in the Nghi Son Economic Zone in Thanh Hoa Province. It will have a planned capacity of 17,000 tonnes/year.

Under the MoU, Starlinger will supply the recoSTAR PET Art line, which has been adopted by global brands like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Amut will provide a washing line for post-consumer plastic materials.

This partnership with two top technology companies underscores Stavian Recycling and Stavian Group's commitment to investing in the latest solutions, producing high-quality rPET products that meet strict export rules and standards in Europe, US, and Japan, it adds.

The rPET plant is expected to add value to the domestic plastic recycling industry, promote exports, generate employment opportunities, increase local budget revenues, and improve Vietnam's competitiveness in the global recycling sector, the company further states.

Stavian Recycling is a member of Stavian Group, a large-scale multinational corporation focused on five core sectors: industrial production, high technology, industrial infrastructure development, energy transition, and trading & investment.

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