REG-TotalEnergies SE Grandpuits Zero-crude Platform: TotalEnergies Starts Production at France’s First Advanced Plastics Recycling Plant

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19/03/2026 08:45

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Grandpuits Zero-crude Platform: TotalEnergies Starts Production at France’s
First Advanced Plastics Recycling Plant

 

TotalEnergies has launched France’s first advanced plastics recycling plant,
with an annual capacity of 15,000 tons, at its Grandpuits site southeast of
Paris. This start-up marks another step in the conversion of the refinery into
a zero-crude platform.

A brand-new plastics recycling activity

The new plant uses innovative recycling technology supplied by our partner
Plastic Energy
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. It transforms hard-to-recycle plastic waste from French households, which is
currently sent to landfill or incineration, into a synthetic oil through a
pyrolysis process, involving heating the waste to high temperatures in an
oxygen-free environment and under pressure. This advanced recycling process
makes it possible to recycle waste that cannot be recycled mechanically.

Recycled plastics identical to virgin plastics

The synthetic oil is then treated as petrochemical feedstock, as a substitute
for fossil fuels. It contributes to producing recycled plastics of the same
quality as virgin plastics, compatible with the strictest requirements for
food contact and medical applications. TotalEnergies signed an agreement with
two French partners in 2023: Citeo
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(1) and Paprec
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, to secure the plant’s long-term supply of plastic waste.

"The start-up of the first advanced plastics recycling plant in France is an
important milestone in the conversion of our Grandpuits site into a zero-crude
complex. Alongside Plastic Energy, contributing its technology, and our
partners Citeo and Paprec, we are supporting the emergence of a brand-new
French plastic recycling activity," declared Valérie Goff, Senior Vice
President, Renewables, Fuels & Chemicals at TotalEnergies.

About TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies is a global integrated energy company that produces and markets
energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas, biogas and low-carbon hydrogen,
renewables and electricity. Our more than 100,000 employees are committed to
provide as many people as possible with energy that is more reliable, more
affordable and more sustainable. Active in about 120 countries, TotalEnergies
places sustainability at the heart of its strategy, its projects and its
operations.

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(1) An eco-organisation dedicated to reducing the environmental impact of
household packaging and paper.



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