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 costs, but also from their ability 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 it with end-of-life plastics.

Customer Profile  Plastic Energy, the 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

• Build new plants based on standardized modular concept
• Adapt their recycling technology flexibly and scale it according to their plant design 
• Manage the plant assets seamlessly to get optimal reliability and output quality 
• Several plants built in Europe, worldwide rollout ongoing. Siemens supports through its global presence 

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