Green tie-ups: Encina/Blue Planet partner for feedstock waste from plastics; Honeywell/SGP BioEnergy to develop hemp-based biochemicals

Encina Development Group and Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pte Ltd have tied up for the supply of hard-to-recycle waste streams to be used as feedstock for Encina’s circular manufacturing process. Encina is focused on decarbonising the global chemicals industry by producing ISCC PLUS circular chemicals from waste streams. Blue Planet is a Singapore-based sustainable waste management solutions with operations that extend from the point of waste generation through to collection, segregation, treatment, processing to the point of sale of energy and other waste derived fuels and products.

Under the MOU, Blue Planet will supply feedstock for Encina’s circular manufacturing facilities globally including the Americas, Saudi Arabia, India, and Southeast Asia, all of which are currently in the early phases of development.

Blue Planet will source the feedstock from its global network of material recovery facilities, or MRFs, which employ sorting technologies and innovative processes to capture hard-to-recycle plastic waste streams. This will complement the process used to make the certified circular chemical products and the final products themselves will all be certified ISCC+ compliant.

Encina manufactures drop-in circular chemicals using an integrated single-stage catalytic conversion process that takes waste streams, such as end-of-life plastics, and transforms them into their base building blocks that can be used to make new products. Encina’s circular materials offer its customers in the chemical manufacturing industry a low carbon, molecularly identical substitute to traditional fossil-fuel derived chemicals.

In other news, US firm Honeywell and SGP BioEnergy announced they are working together to develop new, scalable technology to convert industrial hemp and other plant-based material into biochemicals that can be used to produce plastics and other everyday items, offering an alternative to chemicals produced from fossil fuels.

As part of this collaboration, Honeywell will develop the new technology that enables plant material to be used as feedstock for biochemical production on an expanded scale. SGP BioEnergy will provide the infrastructure, workforce and second-generation feedstock, including industrial hemp.

To ensure safe and efficient unit operations, Honeywell will provide ongoing operational support and workforce training for the team at SGP BioEnergy. The collaboration with SGP BioEnergy supports Honeywell’s alignment of its portfolio to three powerful megatrends, including the energy transition.

“Honeywell is committed to developing innovative solutions to help enable the energy transition. This cutting-edge technology will enable the production of a variety of petrochemical alternatives using second-generation feedstocks,” said Bryan Glover, chief technology and growth officer of Honeywell Energy and Sustainability Solutions. “By using hemp and other non-edible feedstocks to produce these important chemicals, Honeywell and SGP BioEnergy are helping to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels without impacting the food chain.”

“Advancements in the creation and use of biochemicals and biomass are bringing the world to a transformative inflection point. The global stakeholder demand is continually growing, and policies to incentivize cleaner and safer solutions are aligned among many of those stakeholders,” said Randy Delbert Letang, founder/president/CEO of SGP BioEnergy.

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