Chemical recycling requires plastics that are already sorted, clean, and dry. This is where Recy Technologies comes in—designing and manufacturing lines capable of treating all types of plastic waste and turning them into suitable input for chemical recycling, thus enabling more stable, efficient, and scalable chemical processes.
The Shared Goal: Recovering the Most Challenging Plastics
The real battleground for the recycling industry today lies in the most difficult plastic fractions—such as post-consumer films, often heavily contaminated with organic matter, paper, adhesives, or inert materials. These are materials that, until recently, were automatically destined for landfill or incineration, considered “non-recyclable” using standard technologies.
And this is exactly where the innovation challenge lies.
While chemical recycling holds the promise of recovering even the most degraded and complex polymers, it cannot succeed without meeting one essential condition: receiving technically suitable input.
Chemical recycling requires plastics that are selected, decontaminated, and have moisture levels below specific thresholds. Without these characteristics, process yields drop significantly, energy consumption increases due to impurity management, and the system may experience operational instability.
Recy Technologies rises to this challenge with dry mechanical recycling systems specifically designed to transform even the dirtiest and most irregular plastic streams into standardized, homogeneous, and dry feedstock.
This is where mechanical recycling proves its full value — not as an alternative, but as the enabler of a more efficient, scalable, and sustainable second chemical phase.
In this field, Recy is a true pioneer: as early as 2013, the company was already building mechanical recycling lines specifically intended as a preparatory step for chemical recycling — anticipating industry needs and contributing to the development of solutions that are now considered state-of-the-art.
The invisible challenge: why chemical recycling alone is not enough?
Anyone working in chemical recycling knows it well: moisture, organic contaminants, and paper are among the main obstacles to reactor stability. Paper, in particular, is one of the most problematic elements because it absorbs water, degrades easily during transport and pre-treatment, mixes with polymers, and ends up clogging filtration systems and pipelines.
Food residues, adhesives, and biodegradable fractions do not participate in the reaction, but they further burden the process: they turn into solid waste, encrustations, or by-products that disrupt operational continuity, accelerate pipe wear, and complicate plant maintenance.
The result? Lower energy efficiency, more non-recoverable residues, and reduced process stability. That’s why transforming a heterogeneous plastic waste stream into a standardized feedstock is the first step toward making chemical recycling sustainable — not only environmentally, but also economically.
Mechanical Recycling as a Strategic Pre-Treatment
The mechanical phase forms the technical foundation upon which the efficiency of subsequent chemical recycling processes is built.
Operations such as deep washing, high-intensity friction, physical impurity separation, and advanced drying require dedicated technologies, precise engineering, and a plant configuration tailored to the type of waste being treated.
The goal is to standardize the output: moisture content below 1%, no foreign fractions, and controlled density.
Recy Technologies has developed tailor-made solutions specifically designed to meet this type of challenge. Starting from a detailed technical analysis—which includes the composition of the waste, level of contamination, and process objectives—Recy designs fully customized lines engineered to deliver high performance in any production setting.
These lines are modular, easily integrated into existing plants, and optimized to reduce energy consumption, simplify maintenance, and increase overall productivity.
The final output is post-consumer plastic that has gained technical value, transformed into a consistent feedstock that meets the stringent standards required by chemical recycling.
In this sense, mechanical recycling is no longer an alternative to chemical recycling — it is its most powerful enabler. Recy Technologies is one of the few players designing fully customized plants specifically for this purpose, building a solid and operational bridge between two worlds that can no longer move forward separately.
The result: one single, more efficient supply chain
The integration between mechanical and chemical recycling is no longer just an option. Today, only a structured chain—starting with high-precision mechanical preparation—can support the operational loads required by the most advanced chemical processes.
This synergy also unlocks new opportunities from a plant engineering perspective: integrated design makes it possible to create hybrid lines where every module—from mechanical to chemical—is built to communicate with the next, maximizing overall system efficiency.
Inefficiencies are reduced, flows are optimized, and truly circular production models become achievable.
Recy Technologies steps in as a strategic partner for the creation of highly integrated plants. For if the goal is to turn even the most critical waste into a resource, you need technologies that communicate with each other and a holistic vision that unites them.
The drying systems of Recy Technologies’ machines ensure an output with residual moisture levels below 1% for flexible plastics.