Lummus, MOL to build Hungary pyrolysis plant

Technology licenser Lummus and Hungarian oil firm Mol have started construction designs for a pyrolysis chemical recycling plant at Mol's site in Tiszaujvaro, Hungary. It will have a processing capacity of 40,000 t/yr of mixed plastic waste.

The plant will produce pyrolysis oil for the Mol petrochemicals facility at the same location, which has a capacity of 660,000 t/yr for ethylene and 335,000 t/yr for polymer-grade propylene.

Mol and Lummus signed an agreement to integrate pyrolysis chemical recycling at its refining and petrochemical sites in Slovakia and Hungary in 2023. Mol indicated at the time it aimed for production capacities of more than 100,000 t/yr of recycled plastic by 2030.

By George Barsted