It’s encouraging when independent industry research echoes what you’ve been working towards for years. In October 2025, Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) published its first White Paper on Dissolution Recycling Technologies — a milestone for our industry, and a clear signal that physical dissolution recycling has moved from pilot promise to proven reality.
Among the projects featured was ReVentas, recognised as one of the key initiatives advancing dissolution recycling in Europe. The white paper lists our technology and cites a planned HDPE facility in Livingston, United Kingdom, scheduled for 2027.
We’re proud to be included in this landmark document — though we’ll note one small correction: our first commercial plant is set to begin production in 2028, with locations in Grangemouth Scotland and the Netherlands under evaluation. Both offer the infrastructure, workforce and industrial ecosystem needed to deliver this first-of-a-kind project at scale.
A European perspective on physical recycling
The PRE paper defines dissolution recycling as a physical process — one that uses solvents to separate and purify polymers while keeping their molecular chains intact. That distinction matters. It sets dissolution apart from chemical recycling, which breaks polymers down into oils or monomers. In doing so, dissolution retains value instead of destroying it.
PRE’s analysis places dissolution alongside mechanical recycling as part of the same family of low-carbon technologies. Both maintain polymer integrity. Both achieve the highest carbon efficiency. Together, they form the backbone of what PRE calls “physical recycling” — a category Europe now recognises as central to meeting future circular-economy and recycled-content targets.
The report also makes a broader point: dissolution isn’t just a complement to existing systems; it’s a catalyst for expanding them. It enables the recovery of plastics that mechanical recyclers can’t process — multi-layer films, coloured packaging, contaminated feedstocks — and transforms them into virgin-quality resin suitable for sensitive, high-value applications such as food contact and cosmetics.
Scaling up: from pilot to commercial reality
For ReVentas, this external recognition arrives at a pivotal moment. Our pilot plant in Livingston has proven the science, consistently producing polymer that is colourless, odourless, and free from contaminants. With that success, we’re now moving to the next stage: full-scale commercialisation.
Our first 10,000-tonne-per-year plant will process post-consumer HDPE streams to produce virgin-like resin with construction planned to begin in 2026, with production ramping up in 2028.
This facility will create over 45 skilled jobs and demonstrate how physical recycling can operate at industrial scale. More importantly, it will prove that circularity can be achieved with minimal input and maximum value.
We’re designing our plants around simplicity and efficiency, ensuring we can scale and deploy quickly to meet the recycling challenge in front of us. That lean, replicable approach will give us the blueprint to build 5 additional facilities across Europe, North America and Asia over the next 7 years.
Recognition that matters
To see ReVentas included in the PRE white paper is more than symbolic. It’s validation from the European recycling community that our approach — keeping polymers whole, rather than breaking them down — is essential to achieving true circularity.
It also underlines the growing alignment between industry innovation and policy momentum. PRE calls for dissolution to be formally recognised in EU recycling frameworks as part of the “Physical Recycling” category, alongside mechanical processes. This recognition will ensure technologies like ours receive appropriate regulatory support and investment visibility — both crucial for scaling Europe’s recycling capacity and meeting its 2030 targets.
Looking ahead
Our first commercial plant will be a turning point — not just for ReVentas, but for the wider transition away from fossil-derived polymers. It will stand as the first large-scale examples of HDPE dissolution recycling in action. A working model for how recycling can stay low-carbon, high-purity, and economically viable all at once.
The PRE white paper calls dissolution a bridge between the mechanical systems we already have and the future of circular manufacturing we need. We see it the same way except we’re already building that bridge.
By 2028, the world will be able to see physical recycling at full scale — precision, purity, and circularity, designed into every step.
To learn more about our upcoming commercial plant and how ReVentas is redefining circular plastics through selective dissolution, get in touch with our team.
