RESPONSIBLE APPROACH
TO PLASTIC WASTE
CONVERSATION OF WASTE PLASTICS INTO RENEWABLE
HIGH VALUE WAX
MADE WITH PATENTED TRIFOL TECHNOLOGY
The world is finally waking up to the urgent need for a more responsible approach to plastic waste – so here’s an innovation with huge potential impact.
PROJECT PURPOSE
The PLASTIC2WAXLIFE project aims to demonstrate and scale up a new process for the conversion of waste plastics into renewable high value wax.
This technology relies on a high performance, proprietary, chemical recycling process characterised by the absence of catalyst, representing a greener, safer, and more convenient alternative to other technologies.
The aim is to reach commercial levels of wax production having worked at Pilot scale since 2016 and now commercial scale capacities – initially at 8,000 tonnes per annum at the Portlaoise plant in 2018/2019 and now relocated to Lanespark, Littleton, Co Tipperary and to be recommissioned in 2024.
By 2025 this plant will be upscaled to 100,000 tonnes per annum by the addition of 12 new reactors – already sized to fit in our existing buildings.
ABOUT
TRIFOL, a privately held company, has developed a low-pressure pyrolysis patented process, and established in 2014/2015 to convert waste plastic to wax. The technology provides a value proposition to an environmental problem created from disposal of plastic waste.
The process is a proprietary patented technology and already validated at laboratory level at Queens University, Belfast and at small commercial scale Pilot plant level at the Portlaoise facility. It is planned to commission the relocated 8,000 tonne plant in 2024 and upscale to 100,000 tonnes per annum plant at the relocated Bord na Mona facility at Lanespark, Littleton, Co Tipperary in 2024/2025.
GRANT AWARDS TO TRIFOL'S PROJECT
PLASTIC2WAXLIFE
The scaling up of TRIFOL´s plans will happen through the project PLASTIC2WAXLIFE (aka NEWLIFE2PLASTIC), with an overall project budget of €5,051,858.75. Two grants have been granted to TRIFOL for this project: one of 3,013,971,07 EUR from the EU LIFE programme and the other one of 1,500,000 EUR from the Irish Government’s Climate Action Fund
EUROPEAN UNION LIFE GRANT
The EU Project 101074258
LIFE21-ENV-IE-PLASTIC2WAXLIFE by
European Union LIFE awarded €3m to TRIFOL
Resources Limited on 5th May 2022.
IRISH GOVERNMENT CAF GRANT
The Irish government grant have been awarded to TRIFOL Resources Limited under the Climate Action
Fund of €1.5m on 12th November 2021 under
co-financing grant application.
PLASTIC2WAXLIFE BOARD
Patrick Alley
FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN
Thomas Cooke
NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PROJECT PERT CHART
TRIFOL´s PLASTIC2WAXLIFE project has been divided into 6 Work Packages (WP) to cover all the aspects related to the management, the technical realization and the replication and exploitation of the project. Their main relation and logic is summarised in the provided PERT Chart
