Dow and Mura plan to build Europe's largest plastic recycling plant in Germany

On September 15, Dow and Mura Technologies announced that Mura will build a new plastics recycling facility at Dow’s manufacturing site in Böhlen, Germany, with final investment for the project to be decided by the end of 2023.

Mura's new plant in Boren, Germany, is expected to be operational in 2025, with an annual production capacity of about 120,000 tonnes of advanced recycling at full capacity. By 2030, the plant, along with other new facilities to be built in Europe and the United States in the future, is expected to have a combined advanced recycling capacity of 600,000 tons.

The planned new plant project builds on Dow's ongoing long-term collaboration with Mura. The two parties announced the first cooperation project in 2021, building the world's first factory using Mura's process. The factory is located in Teesside, UK. It is expected to be put into operation in 2023, and the first production line has a capacity of 20,000 tons. . The planned Boren plant in Germany will be co-located with Dow's manufacturing facilities, which will greatly increase the capacity to handle plastic waste.

Dow aims to leverage location synergies to significantly reduce the cost of scaling advanced recycling production. In addition, Mura's facility is located within the Dow facility, which minimizes the transportation of off-the-shelf products, thereby reducing carbon emissions; at the same time, the gas emissions from the advanced recycling process can be converted to plastic, which ensures that no by-products become waste.