Worley has won the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for Encina’s planned US consumer-plastics-to-benzene-toluene-xylenes (BTX) processing plant.
At the moment, Worly is working on the engineering package. The US plant will be the first of many planned facilities globally and is designed to be modularly scalable to accommodate Encina’s throughput increase.
Encina has developed an extraction method of BTX from plastic waste which will then be sent to the company’s end customers. The proprietary technology will be able to produce valuable renewable chemicals.
The technology is also able to utilize plastics in various conditions, from post-consumer, mixed plastics to ocean plastics. It would help eliminate the labor-intensive process of sorting, cleaning, and baling.
