Aduro Clean Technologies Inc., a clean technology company using the power of chemistry to transform lower value feedstocks, like waste plastics, heavy bitumen, and renewable oils, into resources for the 21 century, provided an update on continued operating progress at its Next Generation Process (“NGP”) Pilot Plant.
The latest NGP campaign ran for approximately 120 hours over a period of ve days, the longest reported to date, and marked further progress in the NGP program’s transition from controlled feedstock testing to processing realworld post-consumer plastic waste.
During the campaign, the Pilot Plant transitioned from processing controlled polyethylene (“PE”)/polypropylene (“PP”) blends to PO95, a post-consumer plastic waste agglomerate sourced from the Netherlands containing at least 95% polyolens, principally PE and PP, while evaluating feedstock exibility, process stability and operating continuity under changing conditions.
The campaign achieved condensable hydrocarbon yields of approximately 85%, in line with its performance target, while prioritizing operating exibility rather than yield or product-quality optimization. With dierent feedstocks, operating conditions, and testing objectives, the September and October campaigns were designed to evaluate distinct aspects of process performance and are therefore not directly comparable.
The NGP Pilot Plant plays a central role in advancing Aduro’s Hydrochemolytic™ Technology (“HCT”) toward industrial deployment. Through a series of structured operating campaigns, the Company is evaluating how the integrated process responds to dierent feedstocks, operating parameters, and conditions. Each campaign is designed around specic technical objectives, and the resulting data used to rene equipment, controls and operating procedures while establishing and building the technical basis for scale-up.
Commercial plastic-waste streams are rarely uniform, and their composition can change over time as collection practices, sorting processes and market requirements evolve. Industrial recycling facilities must therefore accommodate both variations in feedstock composition and longer-term changes in available waste streams, while managing residual contaminants and operating disruptions.
The October campaign evaluated these practical requirements by testing the ability of the NGP system to transition between feedstocks, respond to interruptions and maintain operation without a complete shutdown. These capabilities are important to plant availability and operating economics at industrial scale.
The growing body of technical ndings and operating experience from successive NGP campaigns is informing equipment selection, process controls, and operating procedures for the First-of-a-Kind (“FOAK”) Plant at Chemelot, where engineering and permitting activities are underway.