BOREALIS
Plans for first mechanical recycling plant shelved for now
— By Plasteurope.com staff — 

Borealis (Vienna; www.borealisgroup.com) has put its plans for a mechanical recycling plant for polyolefin waste at Schwechat, Austria, on hold for the time being. A spokesperson for the polyolefin group told Plasteurope.com that a detailed assessment of the project had shown that, under current market conditions, the plant would not “achieve the expected performance targets”. The project has therefore been put on hold for the now.

The recycling plant was to be been built at Schwechat, Austria (Photo: Borealis)


Instead, Borealis is relying on other sources for Borcycle M, i.e. mechanically recycled materials. In this context, the spokesperson referred to the acquisition of Bulgarian recycler Integra Plastics (Elin Pelin; www.integra-plastics.com) last year.

Related: OMV starts up Austria’s largest green hydrogen plant at Schwechat

Borealis had pursued the recycling plans together with sorting technology specialists Tomra (Asker, Norway; www.tomra.com) and NextChem (Rome; www.nextchem.it). The plant at Schwechat was scheduled to go into operation in 2025 and have a capacity of 60,000 t/y.
25.07.2025 Plasteurope.com [258388-0]
Published on 25.07.2025

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