Advocating for advanced technology to make plastics more circular
OSLO, NORWAY and BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, December 22, 2020 — Chemical Recycling Europe is pleased to welcome Agilyx AS, a leader in advanced recycling of post-use plastics, as a new member of the association.
Agilyx AS, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, has expanded its geographic presence from the U.S. to Europe, having listed its shares on the Norwegian stock exchange earlier this year. Established in the U.S. in 2004, Agilyx today operates a fully commercial polystyrene chemical recycling facility at Tigard, Oregon, through its joint venture Regenyx. The company has numerous other chemical recycling projects underway with partners in Europe, the US and Japan.
ChemRecEurope Secretary General, Mohammad Hayatifar, said: “We are pleased Agilyx has joined ChemRecEurope. It is one of the pioneers in chemically recycling difficult-to-recycle post-consumer plastic streams into a variety of sustainable products including circular virgin like plastics and chemical intermediates. The company is expanding its reach into Europe, a region where circularity is set high on the agenda, to provide more accessibility to Agilyx’s technology and know-how and to accelerate technology partnerships. We are looking forward to working together with this new member to increase the circularity of plastic.”
Tim Stedman, Chief Executive Officer of Agilyx, said: “We are delighted to join ChemRecEurope. As a company expanding across Europe, Agilyx is eager contribute to the advancement of this exciting and growing part of the circular economy across the region. Chemical recycling technology enables plastic waste and difficult-to-recycle polymers to be converted to new, high quality plastics and chemicals – opening up the possibility for plastic waste to be the feedstock of the future, instead of oil. As we look to transform our systems to be more circular, European regulatory frameworks are recognizing the role of innovative chemical recycling technologies in this transformation.
The members of Chemical Recycling Europe are united by one common goal: closing the loop for the plastics industry by offering the technology to chemically recycle all plastic waste back into its original components and/or other value-added materials.
About Agilyx Corporation
Agilyx (AGLX) is the pioneer in chemically recycling difficult-to-recycle post-use plastic streams into a variety of products including circular virgin like plastics, chemical intermediates, and fuels. The company has not only developed these first-to-market products, but has also developed a feedstock management company Cyclyx International, Inc. and is working with many waste service providers, municipalities, petrochemical, and many brand and retail companies to develop closed-loop advance recycling solutions for mixed waste plastics. Contact us to have your plastic waste streams recycled at info@agilyx.com. For more information, follow us on social media and visit us at www.agilyx.com.
About Chemical Recycling Europe
Founded early 2019, Chemical Recycling Europe is the professional representative body of chemical recyclers in Europe and represents the interest of its members towards political bodies and the public. ChemRecEurope’s aim is to deepen a positive industry-wide relationship throughout the whole chemical recycling value chain in Europe to accelerate the creation of circular economy for plastics. For further information, please visit www.chemicalrecyclingeurope.eu.
Tigard, OR, December 1, 2020, Agilyx Corporation (AGLX-ME), a pioneer in the advanced recycling of post-use plastics, and Toyo Styrene Co., LTD (“Toyo Styrene”), an affiliate of Denka Company Limited announced today the 30% completion of the final phase of the Front End Loading (“FEL”) design development (FEL3) to deploy the Agilyx technology near Toyo Styrene’s facility in the Chiba Prefecture of Japan.
The facility will focus on recycling post-use polystyrene plastic back to a styrene monomer. In April 2020, Agilyx announced the licensing of its technology to Toyo Styrene. This announcement marks a significant step forward toward the realization of a truly circular process.
“We are extremely proud of the work that members of Agilyx and Toyo have accomplished to get the project to this point,” said Tim Stedman, CEO of Agilyx. “This further solidifies the efforts going on at Agilyx to increase global plastic recycling through circular pathways. We are excited to provide our proven solution into the Asian Markets that will greatly improve recycled plastic content availability.”
“I am very satisfied with the progress of design development for this project. Despite the tough situation brought on by COVID-19 at the beginning of this year, the teams at both companies have been working hard, making the best of long-distance collaboration.” said Sanshiro Matsushita, President of Toyo Styrene.” There is a real need in Japan for Chemical Recycling of PS which the market is calling for, providing an ideal atmosphere for this project.”
The state-of-the-art advanced recycling facility is designed to convert up to 10 tons per day of post-industrial and post-consumer polystyrene into a styrene monomer that will be purified using Toyo Styrene’s proprietary purification process. Styrene monomer produced from this process has a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to virgin monomer. The facility is on target to meet the initial goal of commencing operations in early 2022.
About Agilyx
Agilyx (AGLX-ME), is a pioneer in the advanced recycling of difficult-to-recycle post-use plastic streams. With Agilyx’s chemical recycling technology and intelligent feedstock management system, mixed plastic waste can be converted to new virgin-equivalent plastics, as well as chemical products and fuels – creating the opportunity for true circularity. The company has not only developed these first-to-market products, but has also developed a feedstock management company Cyclyx International, Inc. and is working with many waste service providers, municipalities, petrochemical, and brand and retail companies to develop closed-loop advance recycling solutions for mixed waste plastics. Contact us to have your plastic waste streams recycled at info@agilyx.com. For more information, follow us on social media and visit us at www.agilyx.com.
About Toyo Styrene
Toyo Styrene was established in April 1999 as a company of consolidated polystyrene business carved out from Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha(Current: Denka Co., Ltd.), Nippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd.(Current:NIPPON STEEL Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.),and Daicel Chemical Co.(Current:Daicel Corporation). Since then, Toyo Styrene has been developing constantly the new high performance grade for answering the needs of customers such asEX7, HMT1, GA, Eneryts and FR-PS as well. For more information, follow us on social media and visit us at www.toyo-st.co.jp.
Contacts:
Agilyx
Kate Ringier
VP, Communications & Government Affairs
+41 78 822 7770
kate.ringier@agilyx.com
Toyo Styrene
Hiroshi Higuchi, Executive Officer, the office manager, environmental measures promotion office, Toyo Styrene Co.,Ltd.
+81-3-3519-5602
h-higuchi@toyo-st.co.jp
The Gilman Brothers Company Announces New Recycling Program
JULY 16, 2020 – The Gilman Brothers Company is excited to announce that their INFINITY® styrene faced foamboard and their InSite® Reveal® paper faced foamboard products with or without UV or Latex Inks have been tested and determined to be of acceptable composition to be recycled through Agilyx’s proprietary polystyrene advanced recycling solution.
The two companies have pioneered a first-in-kind, sustainable solution specific to foam boards “This is the first true cradle-to-cradle system for styrene and paper faced foamboards,” says Bill VanHorn, Director of Sales. “We are very excited to now proceed forward with specifications and applications around our materials to support this exciting new program. To be able to meet with any retailer and share details around this groundbreaking technology and say YES, our styrene and paper faced foam boards ARE recyclable is the innovation the signage and display industries has needed.”
Agilyx has worked with The Gilman Brothers Company to qualify their modified INFINITY® Boards, which are made from high impact polystyrene (or “HIPS”) and extruded polystyrene (or “XPS”) as well as their InSite® Reveal® Boards, which are made from extruded polystyrene (or “XPS”) and clay coated paper. “We are excited to work with industry leaders like The Gilman Brothers Co. in testing and developing sustainable solutions for materials.” says Chris Faulkner, CTO at Agilyx. “We look forward to deploying recycle programs alongside Gilman Brothers as we expand our efforts to increase plastic recovery and recycling.”
“We listened to the market and heavily invested to see this program come to fruition,” explains Bill VanHorn, Director of Sales. “Retailers will be very happy as we roll out the details behind the supply chain and details behind how it works.” Matt Durbin, Agilyx Vice President of Operations agrees, adding that “Agilyx is excited to progress our relationship with The Gilman Brothers Company and provide a truly circular recycling pathway, enabled by The Gilman Brothers Company, North American Plastics Recycling Group and their other certified supply chain partners, in which post-use boards are recovered for advanced recycling.”
Agilyx, based in Tigard, Oregon, is the leader and pioneer in advanced recycling difficult-to-recycle post-use plastic streams into high-value, low-carbon circular virgin-like polymers, chemical intermediate feedstocks and fuels. The company has developed and is operating the first commercial scale system capable of recycling post-use polystyrene into recycled styrene monomer oil, which is being used to remake new polystyrene products. Agilyx is developing additional advanced recycling facilities globally to meet demands for plastic recovery and recycled content.
For additional information on any Gilman Brothers products visit our website at www.gilmanbrothers.com, email us at sales@gilmanbrothers.com or call regular EST business hours 860-889-8444 USA or the new 24/7 hotline 860-884-2077.
For additional information on Agilyx Corporation visit them online at www.agilyx.com as well as through social media. For media inquires please contact John Desmarteau jdesmarteau@agilyx.com.