Enviro link-up targets ‘next-gen’ recycling technology

Stockholm – Scandinavian Enviro Systems has joined a three-year project at Chalmers University of Technology to reduce the carbon footprint of the chemical industry in western Sweden.

The Gothenburg-based project is part of a ten-year initiative, led by innovation agency Vinnova, with the target of reducing the chemical industry’s dependency on fossil fuels.

Also joined by Swedish conglomerate Stena and chemicals company Borealise, the project will look into increasing the role of renewable and recovered raw materials in the industry.

A sub-project involving Enviro’s technology addresses the recovery of complex polymers is being led by Chalmers University academics "with many years of experience in pyrolysis".

Under the sub-project, associate professor Martin Seemann and postdoc scientist Nidia Diaz will assess Enviro’s plant in Asensbruk, Sweden, and investigate possible improvements.

“The aim is to study the technology more closely to obtain a better understanding of it and to thereby be able to make future improvements,” said Seemann – commenting in an Enviro release, supplied 29 June.

The collaboration, added Enviro CEO Thomas Soerensson, will combine experience with advanced research for the development of the “next generation of pyrolysis-based solutions for different materials.”