In July 2026, Niutech signed a sales contract with a global energy major for an industrial continuous waste plastic pyrolysis line. The system applies Niutech’s proprietary continuous pyrolysis technology and will be installed at the customer’s large refinery as part of a production-line upgrade. Once complete, the refinery will be able to convert waste plastic pyrolysis oil into hydrotreated sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) — the full chain in a single facility. This is the first time Niutech’s waste plastic pyrolysis equipment has entered this customer’s supply chain, and a working proof point for advanced plastic recycling on the international stage.

Sustainable aviation fuel is widely seen as the most practical route to aviation decarbonization, but its feedstock has long been a bottleneck. SAF has relied mainly on used cooking oil and other biomass, and as major markets roll out mandatory blending targets, those traditional feedstocks are getting scarcer and costlier. Plastic chemical recycling offers a complementary answer: it handles the low-value plastics that mechanical recycling cannot economically recover, turning them back into oil. Low-value plastic waste is abundant and still largely underutilized — which is exactly why plastic-to-oil has moved to the top of energy companies’ agendas. Policy is reinforcing the trend. The United States offers tax credits for SAF capacity; the EU, UK and Singapore have set rising blending mandates by regulation. In today’s market, SAF trades near $2,872 per tonne — roughly 2.5 times the price of conventional jet fuel. As demand keeps expanding, plastic chemical recycling is drawing steadily more attention.

Niutech is a Chinese manufacturer of industrial continuous pyrolysis equipment. Its waste plastic pyrolysis line handles low-value plastics, medical waste plastics, ocean plastics and post-consumer textiles — including PP, PE, PS, ABS and nylon, whether single-stream or mixed. Inside the line, the long polymer chains in plastic waste are broken down into smaller molecules or monomers, yielding recycled plastic oil as the main product; the non-condensable gas generated during the process is reused within the system to cut energy use. Compared with batch units, the line feeds continuously and runs without interruption, delivering more stable throughput and more efficient resource conversion — one of the reasons the global energy major chose this plastic disposal solution.

Niutech’s pyrolysis systems are built on fully independent intellectual property and have been sold across Asia, Europe, South America and North America. Entering a global energy major’s refinery supply chain marks another step for waste-to-energy process technology moving from pilot-scale toward mature, commercial application. For energy, chemical and resource-recycling companies looking for proven plastic disposal equipment and resource-recovery solutions, Niutech offers a ready-to-deploy answer.