REG-TotalEnergies SE Grandpuits Zero-Crude Platform: TotalEnergies and Paprec Develop the First French Value Chain for Advanced Recycling of Plastic Film

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15/03/2023 08:00

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Grandpuits Zero-Crude Platform: TotalEnergies and Paprec Develop the First
French Value Chain for Advanced Recycling of Plastic Film

 

TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE) and Paprec, leader in plastic
recycling in France, have signed a long-term commercial agreement to develop a
French value chain for advanced recycling of plastic film wastes. The
agreement will secure the supply of TotalEnergies' future advanced plastic
recycling plant in Grandpuits.

Following the terms of this agreement, Citeo, the main organization in charge
of end-of-life household packaging in France, will provide a stream of
flexible plastic waste sorted from post-consumer packaging. This stream will
be delivered to the Paprec Plastiques 80 plant in Amiens (France), where a
first-of-its-kind sorting and preparation line will be built. TotalEnergies
will use this French-origin waste in its advanced recycling plant at the
Grandpuits zero-crude platform and will produce recycled plastics which have
the same properties as food-grade virgin plastics.

The advanced recycling plant, built by TotalEnergies (60%) and Plastic Energy
(40%), will be able to process 15,000 tons of waste per year and is scheduled
to be operational in 2024.

"This long-term agreement is a major milestone for our advanced recycling
plant at Grandpuits, as it guarantees a supply of waste of French-origin,"
said Valérie Goff, Senior Vice President Renewable Fuels & Chemicals at
TotalEnergies. "It is a tangible example of TotalEnergies' commitment to
developing a circular economy for plastics and fully contributes to our
ambition of producing 30% circular polymers by 2030."

"Our job is to provide our customers and partners with circular packaging that
makes it possible to return material to its original use and achieve carbon
savings. We are taking an aggressive, innovative approach to monolayer resins
such as PET, HDPE and PVC. This innovation with TotalEnergies supplements
mechanical, or ‘low carbon’ recycling, which cannot offer the same
circularity for plastic that’s not as eco-designed or that’s too soiled.
Supporting and developing French industrial excellence is one of our
missions," said Sébastien Petithuguenin, Chairman and CEO of Paprec
Plastiques.

Key Dates in Grandpuits' Conversion:


 * September 2020: Announcement of the refinery's conversion into a zero-crude
platform.

 * February 2021: End of refining operations at the site.

 * July-December 2022: Gargenville and Grandpuits solar power plants
commissioned, the largest in the Ile-de-France region.

 * September 2022: Partnership signed with Saria, lifting the site's sustainable
aviation fuel production capacity from 170,000 to 210,000 tons per year.

 * November 2022: Innovation by TotalEnergies and Air Liquide to produce and use
renewable, low carbon hydrogen in the future biorefinery to make sustainable
aviation fuel.

 * March 2023: Agreement with Paprec to develop the first French value chain for
advanced recycling of plastic film waste.

About TotalEnergies in Grandpuits

Commissioned in 1966, Total's Grandpuits-Bailly-Carrois refinery was for a
long time the only refinery in the Paris region. In September 2020,
TotalEnergies launched a project to convert the site, in line with its
strategy to become carbon neutral by 2050. This zero-crude project, with a
total investment of more than 500 million euros, is based on the development
of several future-oriented activities in the field of biomass, renewable
energies, and the circular economy: chemical recycling of plastic waste,
production of biosourced and biodegradable bioplastics, production of biofuels
for the aviation sector, construction of a solar farm and electricity storage
by batteries. The start-up of these new units will begin in 2022, and they
should all be operational by 2025.

About TotalEnergies and Polymers

TotalEnergies develops, produces and commercializes polymers — polyethylene,
polypropylene, polystyrene, their recycled equivalents and biopolymers —
that can be incorporated in the plastics manufacturing process. Lighter than
many alternative materials, they help reduce the carbon footprint of end-use
applications through enhanced energy efficiency. TotalEnergies’ polymers
experts in Europe, Asia and the United States of America are working alongside
all the professionals in the value chain, including plastic manufacturers,
research centers, waste collection and sorting companies, and their customers
to accelerate in the circular economy. The Company is developing different
plastic recycling processes and using renewable raw materials, with the
ambition to commercialize 30% circular polymers by 2030.

About Paprec

The group was founded by the Petithuguenin’s family in 1994 and has been
managed by the family since its creation. Paprec is the French leader in
recycling and one of the main european actors of waste treatment and energy
from waste recovery. The group has grown from 45 employees to 13,000, spread
over more than 300 sites in din countries. In 2022, the group managed 16
million tonnes of waste and sales went over 2.5 billion euros.

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energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and
electricity. Our more than 100,000 employees are committed to energy that is
ever more affordable, cleaner, more reliable and accessible to as many people
as possible. Active in more than 130 countries, TotalEnergies puts sustainable
development in all its dimensions at the heart of its projects and operations
to contribute to the well-being of people.

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