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A new generation of plastics
« Instead of making
products from resources,
let’s make resources
from products. »
Jocelyn Doucet
Chief Executive Officer, Pyrowave

The Endless Regeneration of Plastics Through Microwaves

Plastics are core products in our modern economy, and their production has doubled for the past 15 years. Despite their many benefits, plastics end-of-life problems are a core issue calling for innovative solutions.

Pyrowave provides a unique technology that regenerates post-consumer plastics by breaking down plastics into their basic constituents used to make new plastic resins identical to virgin plastics and restore their full value. Pyrowave leads the way to a true circular economy of plastics.

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Circular Economy of Plastics

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Pyrowave’s patented microwave catalytic depolymerization technology offers the most advanced high-power microwave technology worldwide, now at the forefront of a new revolution designed to increase resource efficiency. By resetting plastic to their native, virgin-like form, the Pyrowave technology allows infinite recycling of plastics.

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The Various Plastics Processed through Pyrowave Technology

Pyrowave technology is notably appropriate for styrenic polymers such as polystyrene (PS), and thermoplastic polyolefins such as polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE), as it fosters a controlled breakdown of carbon carbon bonds.

Pyrowave technology, with its CMD600 reactor, aims first at processing polystyrene (plastic #6).

The CMD 200/400/500 technology is being developed to process polyethylene (plastics #2 and #4) and polypropylene (plastic #5).

Pyrowave technology is not suitable for condensation-based polymers such as polyesters (e.g. PET) and polyamides (e.g. nylon). It is not suitable either for fluoropolymers.

Awards and recognition

The Pyrowave technology has been recognized numerous times!

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Pyrowave among Novae's 20 impactful innovations of 2020
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Pyrowave winners of Ecotech Québec's Eurêka! award
Closed Loop Partners
Smart Prosperity Institute
BASF ACIC Competition – Innovation Series
Member of: World Alliance for efficient solutions
Nominated in the Global Cleantech 50 Ones to Watch List
2018 Innovation Grand Award of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec
Ranked 1st at the International Industrial Chemistry Competition.
Nominated in the Global Cleantech 100 Ones to Watch List
Top 20 Most Innovative Company, by the Canadian Innovation Exchange

Partners

Pyrowave is the initiator of the North American Closed-Loop Polystyrene Recycling Consortium announced at the G7 ministerial meeting in September 2018 with INEOS-Styrolution and ReVital Polymers.

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Member of the Responsible Care program of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)
Export Development Canada (EDC)
Ontario Centre for Excellence (OCE)
Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC)
MaRS
RIC
World Alliance for Efficient Solutions
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Our latest publications

Jamal Chaouki, Co-founder of Pyrowave, Received a Prestigious Prize!

Jamal Chaouki, one of Pyrowave’s co-founders and Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, received the Society of Chemical Industry’s Kavel Pugi Award.
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An Intellectual Property Strategy to Propel Startups’ Development: Our VP Innovation, Jean-Philippe Laviolette, Interviewed by CIPO

Jean-Philippe Laviolette, eng. Ph.D., has been interviewed on April 27th by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.
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The Pyrowave technology : for an infinite polystyrene recycling