The EU PPWR (Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation) has now been fully implemented. It requires that by 2030, single-use waste plastic bottles contain 30% recycled material, and other waste plastic packaging will also be required to contain 10% to 35% recycled material depending on category. In June this year, the European Commission’s Implementing Decision established mass balance accounting, allowing chemical recycling to be counted in recycled material statistics. In the same period, the UK released guidance on mass balance accounting for chemical recycling linked to the Plastic Packaging Tax. The gradual release of international policies has made plastic recycling pyrolysis technology a closely watched technology route in the field of waste plastic recycling.

At the same time, global demand for waste plastic pyrolysis oil continues to grow. According to data from industry research institutions, the market size will reach USD 4.86 billion in 2026, a year-on-year increase of 30%. Europe currently has 65 chemical recycling projects, with a combined planned capacity of 2.799 million tonnes per year. Through pyrolysis technology, the industrialization of plastic-to-oil is entering a new stage that requires more continuous and stable production as well as more stable quality, so that pyrolysis recycled oil can return to the chemical feedstock system. Later, it can even be expanded to sustainable aviation fuel alternatives after hydrotreating and upgrading. As pyrolysis products move toward higher value, requirements for pyrolysis oil quality are also being upgraded simultaneously.

Niutech is a globally renowned manufacturer of continuous pyrolysis equipment, focused on high-end pyrolysis for nearly 40 years, with extensive cases of ten-thousand-ton-level continuous pyrolysis projects in dozens of countries around the world. It has independently developed the “Industrial Continuous Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Production Line.” The production line is highly intelligent, and its product quality is stable and suitable for downstream processing. The entire production line is under continuous control through an intelligent system, enabling real-time monitoring and coordinated regulation, and achieving efficient pyrolysis of products under precise temperature control. For waste plastics, materials can be directly and efficiently pyrolyzed in one step without complex sorting, cleaning, drying, fine crushing and other steps, producing stable-quality recycled oil, solid fuel, non-condensable combustible gas and other products. The equipment has been sold to Asia, Europe, South America and North America. Niutech’s technology and equipment have obtained EU CE, German TUV and ATEX certifications, and its projects have passed ISCC PLUS/EU certification. Niutech’s integrated waste plastic pyrolysis solutions are maturely designed to achieve high-value utilization of waste plastic pyrolysis.

The difficulty in the industrialization of waste plastic pyrolysis lies in whether the conversion can be completed continuously, stably and economically. Issues such as coking, dynamic sealing at the material inlet and outlet, product polymerization and uneven heat transfer determine whether the unit can operate over long cycles; feedstock fluctuations and impurity control affect whether recycled oil can meet downstream processing requirements. Only by overcoming these interrelated engineering thresholds can designed capacity truly be transformed into stable supply. With its mature practice in continuous pyrolysis, Niutech provides an industrialization path for solving the above challenges. As a provider of green recycling solutions for the global market, Niutech integrates continuous feeding and discharging, precise temperature control and product stability into its overall solutions through the synergy of core processes, equipment structure and intelligent control, enabling waste plastics to be stably converted into recycled feedstock that can return to the manufacturing end.