Circular plastics

Enter new markets, open new revenue streams, and decrease vulnerability from single-feedstock dependency.

Turn plastic waste into business opportunities using our proven technology.

Minimize dependency on fossil resources and virgin feedstocks.

Rely on a proven technology and an experienced technology partner.

Stay ahead of tightening legislation and rising taxes.

Capitalize on growing demand for recycled plastics.

Driving forces behind recycling

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Demand for circular plastic is growing

Refiners and petrochemical companies face rapid changes in demand for their plastic related products. Across the globe, demand for reused plastic is rising (Global Plastics Outlook | OECD). Meanwhile, legislators set increasingly ambitious environmental targets.

As an example, the European Union, comprising 27 member states, seeks to incentivize plastic reuse and penalize virgin plastic use with initiatives like the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, that entered into force in February 2025 (Packaging waste - European Commission)

Waste not, want not

We are committed to helping producers deliver on the world’s increasing drive from a linear to a more circular economy with a cost-efficient, competitive solution.

Where others see garbage, we see opportunities. From landfills to tire-disposal lots, we see feedstocks for more sustainable plastic, and more sustainable business. With our proven technology, PureStep™, we can transform plastic pyrolysis oil directly into on-spec naphtha or heavier cut steam cracker feedstock – a critical building block of plastic. With this, we can reshape an entire industry – and your company - for the better.

PureStep™: Pure Value

PureStep™ helps you turn plastic pyrolysis oil from mixed plastic waste into contaminant-free, on-spec naphtha or heavier cut steam cracker feedstock to future proof your business.

The technology enables the safe and easy downstream processing of on-spec naphtha or heavier cut steam cracker feedstock and enables chemical recycling at scale.

PureStep is a chemical recycling technology that removes impurities like silicon, phosphorus, heteroatoms, halogens, and more, from pyrolysis oil made from low-grade mixed waste and polishes its properties to match your feedstock specification. Decontaminating and refining pyrolysis oil with PureStep turns it into on-spec naphtha, which can be used directly in a steam cracker as feedstock for new, circular plastic including contact sensitive materials.

With PureStep, you can turn mixed waste into feedstock for circular plastic and reduce your dependence on virgin fossil feedstocks in your production.

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Why Topsoe

To create PureStep™, we combined two of our strongest industry-leading capabilities, hydroprocessing and catalysis, to develop a groundbreaking solution. We’ve invested more than a decade of pioneering research in circular plastics to understand plastic pyrolysis oil, and to purpose-develop catalysts to target the particular challenges of this new feedstock. As a result, we’ve established ourselves as leaders in providing upgrading solutions for the chemical recycling of plastic waste.

By combining these strengths with insights gained from in-house analyses and tests of over 60 different plastic pyrolysis oils (PPOs), we developed the PureStep™ process: a customizable solution designed to decontaminate and upgrade a broad variety of PPOs into on-spec, drop-in naphtha. Today, our first industry references for our plastic pyrolysis oil-to-naphtha process are already in operation.

Our exceptional understanding of the unique challenges, processes, and applications of the refining and petrochemical industries combine to make us the perfect partner for moving your operations forward.

Highlights

Podcast

The Circular Plastic Podcast

Join the talk on how we transition from a linear to a circular plastic economy. We ask some of the major market players and key industry experts to hand you their latest insights and exclusive perspectives on the circular plastic economy.

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Expert article

A plastic recycling story - BlueAlp

Valentijn De Neve, CEO of BlueAlp, a pioneering company that specializes in pyrolysis and chemical recycling technology, recently spoke to Topsoe’s Milica Folic as part of the Circular Plastics podcast. The following Q&A has been developed from their conversation.

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