7 Mar 2024
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands visits SABIC & Plastic Energy world-first commercial advanced recycling unit
- Her Majesty, Queen Máxima, visited the world first commercial advanced recycling unit as part of a working visit around circularity to the Chemelot industrial site in Geleen, The Netherlands.
- The advanced recycling unit will significantly up scale production of SABIC's certified circular polymers from advanced recycling of used and mixed plastics.
- The Queen was received by SABIC leaders and was given a technical tour of the SABIC and Plastic Energy advanced recycling unit and the SABIC-owned hydrotreater unit.
Geleen, The Netherlands, March 7, 2024 - SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, welcomed Her Majesty, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, to the SABIC and Plastic Energy advanced recycling unit and the SABIC-owned hydrotreater unit. The visit formed part of a broader working visit of the Queen to the Chemelot industrial site in Geleen, the Netherlands, to understand the efforts taking place on site in the field of circularity and sustainability.
Mr. Abdulrahman Al-Fageeh CEO of SABIC, highlighted: “We were honored to be able to demonstrate to Her Majesty SABIC's commitment to driving a circular economy for plastics by touring our new advanced recycling unit, which is in the final stages of construction. “By using advanced recycling processes, we are able to keep valuable, used plastic in the material stream, to use as a new feedstock to produce our circular polymers and offer more sustainable solutions to our customers.”
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ABOUT SABIC
SABIC is a global diversified chemicals company, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It manufactures on a global scale in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, making distinctly different kinds of products: chemicals, commodity and high performance plastics, agri-nutrients and metals.
SABIC supports its customers by identifying and developing opportunities in key end-use applications such as construction, medical devices, packaging, agri-nutrients, electrical and electronics, transportation and clean energy.
The company has more than 31,000 employees worldwide and operates in around 50 countries. Fostering innovation and a spirit of ingenuity, SABIC has 9,948 patents and pending applications, and has significant research resources with innovation hubs in five key geographies – USA, Europe, Middle East, South Asia and North Asia.
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