Press Releases

Technip Energies and Anellotech to Jointly Develop Sustainable Plastics Recycling

Apr 22, 2024

Technip Energies (PARIS:TE) and Anellotech, Inc. (Anellotech) today announced they have signed a global joint development agreement to work cooperatively to further develop and then license Anellotech’s Plas-TCat™ process, a one-step thermal-catalytic recycling technology that converts mixed plastic wastes back into its constituent basic chemicals, with a specific focus to benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX) that can be used to make most virgin plastics.

Anellotech Welcomes Jean-Pierre Burzynski as R&D Consultant and Strategic Advisor to Board of Directors

Apr 25, 2023

Jean-Pierre Burzynski Anellotech R&D Consultant, Strategic Advisor to Anellotech’s Board of Directors

Pearl River, N.Y, April 25, 2023 — Anellotech announces today that Jean-Pierre Burzynski, who served as Director of the Process Business Unit at IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), which is a major research and innovation center in the fields of energy, transport and the environment, has been retained as an R&D Consultant and appointed as a Strategic Advisor to Anellotech’s Board of Directors.

Anellotech Offers Drum-Quantity Samples of Recycled BTX Made From Mixed Waste Plastics via Plas-TCat® Process

Nov 29, 2022

Anellotech News Plas-TCat rBTX Sample Offering

Pearl River, N.Y, November 29, 2022 — Anellotech is pleased to announce that it is offering drum-quantity product samples of aromatics produced from recycled mixed waste plastics. The recycled benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTX) will be available to current and potential commercial partners.

Anellotech Selects Barracuda Virtual Reactor

Oct 6, 2022

October 6, 2022 — CPFD Software (Houston, TX) and Anellotech, Inc. (Pearl River, NY) announce they have entered into a software licensing agreement.

Advance In Plastics Chemical Recycling To Meet A Growing Need

Apr 7, 2022

Pearl River, New York April 8, 2022 - Brand owners all have recycled content goals for 2025 to 2030. If you add up all the commitments, it's a fairly huge supply of recycled polymers that is needed. The market needs a recycling process that can be scaled up to chemical industry volumes, is flexible enough to use most plastic wastes as feedstocks, has an attractive LCA, can economically enable the purchase of waste plastic feedstock, and is simple and cost effective.

Anellotech and Trecora Resources subsdidary South Hampton Resources renew site host and services agreement for process development pilot plant

Jan 24, 2022

Pearl River, New York, USA and Silsbee, Texas, USA, January 25, 2022, Anellotech and South Hampton Resources, Inc. (SHR), a subsidiary of Trecora Resources, (NYSE: TREC), announced today the renewal of their agreement for SHR to serve as site host and provide operations services for Anellotech's TCat-8^TM process development pilot plant, which is located inside of SHR's Silsbee, Texas production plant. SHR owns and operates a 128-acre specialty petrochemicals facility at the Silsbee site, specializing in high purity hydrocarbons.

Anellotech's Bio-TCat™ Technology for Making Bio p-Xylene, Toluene and Benzene from Woody Biomass Is Ready for Commercialization

Dec 14, 2021

100% bio based, polymer-grade p-Xylene produced in Anellotech's TCat-8® pilot plant has been used by Suntory, a global consumer beverage company, to make 100% bio-PET resin and successfully produce prototype PET beverage bottles, as announced by the company on Dec 3^rd 2021.

Anellotech Secures Funds to Develop Innovative Plas-TCat™ Plastics Recycling Technology from R Plus Japan, a New Joint Venture Company launched by 12 Cross-Industry Partners within the Japanese Plastic Supply Chain

Jun 29, 2020

Pearl River, NY, USA - June 30, 2020 - Sustainable technology company Anellotech has announced that R Plus Japan Ltd., a new joint venture company, will invest in the development of Anellotech's cutting-edge Plas-TCat^TM technology for recycling used plastics. R Plus Japan was established by 12 cross-industry partners within the Japanese plastics supply chain. Member partners include Suntory MONOZUKURI Expert Ltd. (SME, a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Ltd.), TOYOBO Co. Ltd., Rengo Co.

Anellotech's Technology Converts Lay's Potato Chip Bag into Key Chemical Required for New Plastic Bottles

Feb 26, 2020

Pearl River, NY, USA, 27 February 2020 Sustainable technology company Anellotech has announced that a laboratory demonstration of its Plas-TCat^TM technology which transforms mixed plastic waste directly into chemicals successfully converted a Lay's Barbeque Potato Chip (PepsiCo) bag into para-xylene, the primary chemical used to make virgin PET for beverage bottles.

New Anellotech technology tackles plastics pollution by recycling plastic waste into chemicals

Dec 5, 2019

Pearl River, NY December 6, 2019 Sustainable technology company Anellotech is significantly expanding its program with Plas-TCat^TM, a new process technology aiming to convert a wide range of plastic waste directly into chemicals which can then be used to make new, virgin plastics.

Anellotech's New Biomass Pre-Treatment Technology to Remove Minerals Successfully Demonstrated at 20 Metric Tons/Day Scale

Jul 4, 2019

Pearl River, NY July 5, 2019 Anellotech's MinFree^TM technology, an innovative, patent pending biomass pretreatment process has been demonstrated to significantly reduce the mineral (ash) content of loblolly pine at a 20 metric ton/day scale. Month-long trials converting this MinFree^TM-treated, low-mineral pine into aromatics (BTX) at Anellotech's Bio-TCat^TM process TCat-8® pilot plant showed extended, economic catalyst life.

Bio-TCat™ technology viability confirmed during extensive Anellotech pilot plant campaign

May 5, 2019

Pearl River, NY, and Paris, France May 6, 2019 The viability of Anellotech's Bio-TCat^TM technology has now been proven by achieving commercially-targeted yields in its TCat-8® pilot unit in Silsbee, Texas during six months of continuous process operations.

Process yields of 22-24% by weight of liquid products from loblolly pine feedstock were demonstrated. Supplemental carbon monoxide (CO) output provides potential for an additional 3-5% yield by weight of cellulosic ethanol via third-party technologies or production of renewable electricity.

100% Renewable Plastic Bottle Significantly Closer to Reality After Successful Production of Bio-based Paraxylene from Non-food Biomass Bio-based Benzene Is Next

Feb 25, 2019

Pearl River, NY, and Paris, France 26 February 2019 Sustainable technology company Anellotech and its joint development partners IFPEN and Axens have processed renewably-sourced aromatics made at Anellotech's TCat- 8® pilot plant to successfully recover high-purity bio-based paraxylene a key component for making 100% biobased PET bottles a reality.

New Technology Advances Lead Anellotech to Announce Commercial Plant Engineering Plans

Oct 15, 2018

Pearl River, NY, October 16, 2018 Sustainable technology company Anellotech confirms significant progress in its Bio-TCat^TM technology development program and has begun planning for scale-up design and engineering of a commercial plant with its process development and design partner IFPEN and commercialization, engineering, and licensing partner Axens.

Jacobs Confirms Anellotech's Bio-TCat™ Process Leads to Significant Carbon Emission Reductions Compared to Petro-based Aromatics

Oct 10, 2018

Pearl River, NY, October 11, 2018 Sustainable technology company Anellotech announced that its pioneering Bio-TCat process, which produces bio-based aromatics from pine wood, has a CO2 emission reduction potential of 70% or more when compared to petroleum-derived equivalents. Jacobs' analysis confirms that Bio-TCat is ideal for chemical producers and brand owners looking to meet sustainability goals for producing renewable polymers for consumer products or biofuels blended into transportation fuels.

Developments at Anellotech Plant Bring 100% Bio-based Plastic Bottle Closer to Reality

Jul 15, 2018

Pearl River, NY, July 16, 2018 Sustainable technology company Anellotech recently achieved new milestones at its TCat-8® pilot plant in Texas, thereby progressing its 100% bio-based bottle collaboration with global consumer beverage company Suntory.

Anellotech Achieves Key Process Technology Operating Milestone;

Mar 27, 2018

Pearl River, NY, March 28, 2018 Anellotech, a sustainable technology company pioneering the Bio-TCat^TM process for production of cost-competitive renewable chemicals and fuels from non-food biomass, today announced a key operating milestone, achieving two weeks of continuous operation of its seven-story tall TCat-8 pilot plant, producing aromatics (primarily benzene, toluene, and xylenes) from loblolly pine feedstock.

Anellotech and Suntory Honored as Recipients of "Top 10 Innovations" Award by Innovation for Cool Earth Forum

Feb 4, 2018

Pearl River, NY, February 5, 2018 Anellotech, a sustainable technology company pioneering the production of cost-competitive renewable chemicals and fuels from non-food biomass, today announced that its alliance with Japan-based Suntory, one of the world's leading consumer beverage companies, was honored as a recipient of the "Top 10 Innovations" award at the 2017 Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) in Japan.

Anellotech Announces First $9 Million of Total $15 Million Additional Investment to Advance Suntory's Environmental Vision

Jan 17, 2018

Pearl River, New York January 18, 2018 Alliance continues progress towards the development and commercialization of cost-competitive 100 percent bio-based plastics for use in beverage bottles

Anellotech Announces Commencement of Key R&D Program at TCat-8®

Jan 3, 2018

Pearl River, New York January 4, 2018 With successful completion of TCat-8 pilot plant commissioning, an intensive process development & testing program has begun to confirm process economics and collect data for commercial plant design.

Program will generate bio-based benzene, toluene and xylene samples for use in making prototype samples of PET polymer for Suntory packaging and bio-benzene-based polymers such as ABS, polycarbonate and polyurethane for other strategic investors

Anellotech Announces First Successful Performance Test of its TCat-8® Pilot Plant

May 30, 2017

Pearl River, New York May 31, 2017 Conversion of Loblolly Pine into BTX as Unit Commissioning Nears Completion; Files Form D with SEC for $0.8 million equity investment.