Dow and Mura commit to largest collaboration to date to advance plastics advanced recycling at scale

● Dow and Mura Technologies will build multiple facilities in the US and Europe, adding a cumulative 600,000 tons of advanced waste recycling capacity by 203

● Mura's first advanced recycling plant is located in Teesside, UK, and is expected to be fully operational in 202 Based on this, Mura will expand future production capaci.

● Dow is making significant progress toward its sustainability, climate protection and plastic waste reduction goals by using advanced recycling technologies that complement physical recycli.

● Dow will be a major off-taker of Mura's recycled materials and provide sustainable products to major global brands while promoting the elimination of plastic was.

● Dow's support of Mura Technologies provides Mura with the key resources to implement advanced plastic recycling programs for many years to co.

Dow Corporation (NYSE: DOW), a leading global materials science company, and Mura Technologies, a global pioneer in advanced recycling solutions for plastics, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement to further drive the worldwide drive to remove plastic was.

Dow will play an important role in this partnership as the primary off-taker of recycled raw materials produced by Mu.

Mura's planned investment in the new facility and Dow's off-take agreement represent the largest commitments to date by both companies to advance and expand global plastics advanced recycling capaci.

Marc van den Biggelaar, Director of Advanced Recycling at Dow, said: "This enhanced partnership with Mura is another example of Dow's efforts to advance a circular economy for plastics around breakthrough advanced recycling technologi.

"This partnership drives Dow forward," said Diego Donoso, president of Dow's Packaging and Specialty Plastics business un.

This collaboration will be a major milestone in the rapid and larger-scale deployment of Mura's revolutionary HydroPRS™ (Hydrothermal Plastics Recycling Solution) advanced recycling proce.

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The world's first plant to use Mura's HydroPRS™ process is located in Teesside, UK and is expected to be operational in 2023, with a production line with a capacity of 20,000 tonnes per annum that will provide Dow with 100% recycled raw materia.

Dow's extensive global presence will enable Mura's technology to be deployed at scale through multiple programs in the.

While advancing its advanced recycling business, Dow today also announced related projects in physical recycling and waste ecosystem buildi.

●Invest in the construction of the largest single mixed recycling plant in Fran.

●Signed a letter of intent with Nexus Circular to build a circular ecosystem in Dallas, Texas, USA to deal with previously unrecyclable plasti.

Hydrothermal plastic recycling solution could tackle plastic pollution at scale

Mura's unique hydrothermal recovery process, HydroPRS™, uses water to break down plastics in the form of supercritical steam (water at high pressure and temperatur.

The steam acts like molecular scissors, severing the carbon-hydrogen bonds of the longer chains in the plastic in just 25 minutes, producing the valuable chemicals and oils from which the plastic was originally ma.

These oils are equivalent to virgin fossil products and can be used to produce new virgin-grade plastics with no limit to how many times the same material can be processed, creating a true circular economy of plastic was.

Importantly, unlike traditional recycling processes, these products may be suitable for food-grade packagi.

Mura's innovative process allows for the recycling of all forms of plastic waste, including those considered "non-recyclable" such as films, bottles, tubs and trays that currently can only be incinerated or landfill.

The process will complement and be used concurrently with traditional recycling techniques and other broader plastic reduction and reuse techniques, which include physical recycling, where plastic waste is shredded and reprocessed into a variety of different plastics product, which remains critical to Dow's recycling strate.

The use of supercritical steam means the technology is inherently scalable as we.

Unlike other methods of heating waste from the outside, steam transfers energy from within to efficiently convert plastic waste; a process that can be achieved regardless of sca.

Dow is joining several other global players, including US multinational engineering services firm KBR, and global consulting and engineering firm Wood, to accelerate the global deployment of Mura's technolo.

The technology is also backed by environmental group Ocean Generation, which is pushing hard to tackle plastic was.