As the demand for high-purity recycled polymers surges, industry players are under unprecedented pressure to balance peak sorting performance with cost-effective infrastructure investment.
As an independent knowledge center, NTCP helps address these challenges by offering a space that allows all stakeholders along the plastics value chain to innovate and test their materials, technologies and processes under real conditions and on industrial scale – from sorting to shredding, washing, and drying. Based on data-driven results, NTCP advises its stakeholders on how to optimise their processes and improve the recyclability of materials to eventually enhance plastics circularity and maximise operational efficiencies.
“Since our opening in early 2020, we’ve carried out more than 350 projects and programs and helped customers from all over the world with their individual challenges. The demand is still growing, as is the need to keep our finger on the pulse of the increasingly volatile market. That’s why we work with Sutco, a leading plant builder with proven trackrecord and our partner of choice for the expansion of our innovative sorting facility to drive the further development and optimization of advanced sorting processes.”, states Martine Brandsma, Director at NTCP.
Designed and built by Sutco by spring 2026, the installation has a processing capacity of up to 2 tons per hour of a wide range of materials. It incorporates technological and processual upgrades, including additional sorting technology, analysers for online material flow identification improved sampling concept as well as components for flexible material handling and a seamless material transfer between the sorting and washing plant.
The evolution of the facility enables plant operators and other stakeholders in the plastics recycling industry to gain first-hand insight into the possibilities of plastic recycling, accelerate technology and process innovations towards implementation and supports them in meeting recycling benchmarks, now and in the future.
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National Test Centre Circular Plastics (NTCP)