Research centre verifies Loop's depolymerisation technologyPlastics in Packaging

December 15, 2020 Canadian research centre Kemitek has independently verified Loop Industries’ patented Gen II depolymerisation technology, which allows waste PET and polyester fibre to be recycled into virgin-quality PET made from 100 per cent recycled content. Loop commissioned Kemitek (formerly Oleotek), a not-for-profit College Centre for Technology Transfer specialised in the fields of green chemistry and chemical process scale-up, to validate the technology. The Kemitek team was on site at Loop’s Terrebonne, Quebec facilities for 16 days to verify each step of the technology at Mini-Pilot (25 L reactor) and Pilot scales (6000 L reactor) from feedstock (post-consumer waste PET) to final purified monomers dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) and monoethylene glycol (MEG).