1-2018 Competitor review

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News:
  • A New project has just been announced to promote plastics as Fuel. Plastic Odyssey is a  non profit that is building a 25 meter demonstration ship that will use only plastics as fuel. In fall of 2019 it will start a 3 year round- the-world tour to promote plastics as fuel. They will gather plastics as fuel at each port from waste, and process it on board the ship. Not a competitor, but it will surely increase acceptance of plastics based fuel for ships.
  • A Chinese Company CYReports is soliciting buyers for  $3300 report on the Global Plastics to oil Industry they will do in the 1st Quarter of 2018. They list many of the companies we track as primary players. This shows that they think there is increasing interest in this market.
  • Argonne Labs produced a government study last May that Green House Gas Emissions are substantially reduced in the Plastic to oil process. Report is not  new to us, but the report is getting passed around more and more.
  • The National Conference for Plastics Recycling  is Being Held In Nashville, Feb 19-21. I’ll watch for papers.

Competitor Update:


The 20 year Deal is to license and sell its technology. Here is the 8-K the filed with the SEC. Veridisyn Technologies is an Alabama based LLC. the Press release says they have extensive experience in processing waste plastics, but  that does not appear to be the case. Formed as an LLC, they have no web page and one officer. Veridisyn Technologies, LLC is an Alabama Domestic Limited-Liability Company filed on July 28, 2014 . The company's filing status is listed as Exists and its File Number is 314-984. The Registered Agent on file for this company is Curtis, Dana C and is located at 11208 Mountain Park Circle, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405



  • Plastic Advanced Recycling Corporation manufactures Pyrolysis equipment. (P.A.R.C) is an Illinois corporation formed in June, 1996. Current adds show a 20-30 TPD unit for "basic treatment". here is their tech. Oil production is 50-70% oil. 80,000 hour lifespan or ten years. They seem to have 1 producing plant in china that seems to use water in their process.
  • Vadxx:  Continues to Try and create retail markets for their branded fuel directly.
  • Clean Blue Technologies- In NC - no new news. They are very quiet- we may have lost them.
  • MK Aromatics is small an Indian Aromatic chemical manufacturer who uses pyrolysis and waste plastics as a feedstock. No new news on any plans to use their tech for oil production, but they keep coming up when analysts report on the market
  • Recycling Technologies, a new player, a Scotland based company with the UK government and 100 other investors. Their business plan is to produce small pyrolysis units and lease them to EU plastic manufacturers to deal with their waste. Lots of press.
  • PLASTIC ENERGY, is a UK based company which appears to have two operating plants. They provided plastic based fuels and promoted a 2017 aircraft flight in Australia. They appear to be fuel sellers and not technology producers.
  • PK Clean has changed their name to Renewology. Their website says their Canadian plant was due to open at the end of 2017, but there has been no press release to that effect. The CEO is speaking at the plastic recycling conference in Nashville in Feb 20th. Here is an interview about her upcoming presentation. They have recently signed a deal with the city of Boise, ID to receive all their waste their post-consumer plastic. Worried about the China ban, the city has a new ordinance requiring plastics 3-7 be put into a separate plastic bag. The City will truck his plastic directly to Renewology's Salt Lake city demonstration plant. This suggests they may be expanding that plant into full production.

 P2Oil, Klean Industries,  RES Polyflow, Agilyx, Nexus Fuels, RGen,
Plastic Advanced Recycling Corporation,Vadxx,Clean Blue Technologies,MK Aromatics,
Recycling Technologies,PLASTIC ENERGY, Renewology

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