Plastics are versatile, durable, lightweight, and incredibly adaptable, so it’s no wonder that they are used in various applications. The success of plastics comes partly from their low cost, but also from their versatility to meet highly demanding functional requirements. it is not surprising that plastics production has significantly increased over the last few decades, both in terms of amount, and in variety. Today, humans need to think about how to stop draining our planet’s resources, and, at the same time, how to stop polluting the same world with litter and rubbish.

Customer Profile  Plastic Energy, award-winning company headquartered in London, UK is a globally acting company, offering sustainable solutions to transform previously unrecyclable plastic waste into a valuable resource. The company has developed a unique and patented chemical recycling technology that uses the thermal anaerobic conversion (TAC) process to treat waste plastics. This process solution combined with state-of-the-art control technology is implemented in several plants.
Objectives

• Adapt the solution flexible and scalable according to their plant design 
• Manage the plant assets seamlessly to get optimal reliability and output quality 
• Several plants built in Europe, worldwide rollout in place. Siemens supports through its global presence 

• SIMATIC PCS 7 control system 
• Instrumentation and analytic devices 
• Comprehensive safety and security concep 
• Further developments including PCS neo