Fields
There are many forms of recycling and quite frankly, we will need all of them at this point in time. Depending on the specific waste stream, we look for the most sustainable solution in terms of footprint, energy and value after recovery and conversion. This has led to 4 areas of interest in our portfolio.
The first area is (real) chemical recycling. Because of the required CAPEX investment for such operations, we tend to focus only on high value or complex polymers, resins and composites. The reference case is of course our work on polyurethanes recycling with G-PUR and SurePUre Antwerp. Solutions are really all about depolymerizing waste streams back into basic building blocks that can flow back into the chemical industry. We do not focus on thermal heat recovery only, nor on pyrolysis or gasification.
A second area typically interesting for low value and abundantly available waste streams is mechanical recycling of solid waste streams and/or waste streams of biobased materials coming from the food and agricultural industry. Initiatives in this area are focusing on making finished products or semi-finished products through a combination of waste streams and a low cost production process. Examples here are products from various types of stone waste, glass waste, starch based waste streams etc…
A third field is recovering or capturing & cleaning liquid and gaseous waste streams or residual flows from a variety of industries or by absorbing specific greenhouse gases like CO2. Our Electricon technology allows just that in addition to generating hydrogen and opening the door to Direct Air Capture and democratizing CO2 capture for CCU/S with the lowest energy requirement in the market.
Finally, our fourth field of interest is all technologies that help automate and enhance quality of recycling processes. Knowing what is out there or knowing the content and contaminations in incoming waste streams is just one example.


Field PU
We often hear that polyurethanes cannot be recycled. This is of course not entirely true, but it is not the easiest of materials to recycle. Also, what does recycling mean and what is the value of the output…? These and many other aspects have been answered by our first major initiative in chemically recycling PU. Completely in line with our group logic we have created Triple Helix G-PUR to centralize our background knowledge in polyurethanes and to further develop specific knowledge on PU recycling to be applied in Triple Helix SurePUre Antwerp and all geographical replications later on. Although we are starting with glycolysis and hydro-glycolysis processes and a series of pretreatment steps for PU foams, we are gradually expanding our toolkit as well as the waste streams we can convert back into polyols and isocyanate derivatives.
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Field Electricon
Triple Helix Electricon International and its operational subsidiaries focus on capturing and cleaning CO2, resulting in CCU/S optimized CO2 stripped from SOx, NOx and other contaminants. In addition, by-products of the process are H2 and O2, which can be tuned but clearly mark the fact that we can do more with one electron in our electro-chemical process.
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Field G-BT combined
There are quite a number of voluminous waste streams few people seem to care about. Nevertheless, they present a burden to those who get stuck with them. They potentially form a threat in some cases and most of all, they can quite often find a new functional destination. G-BT typically converts these streams back into products by means of mechanical recycling technologies and processing. G-BT focuses on solid waste streams and bio-based waste streams without interfering in the food chain. Processes encompass all sorts of grinding, mixing and pressing steps, complemented with molding, printing, binding and finishing work.
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Field C-ray
One of the key criteria for high yield and high quality recycling output is the quality or at least insight in the quality of waste streams going into a recycling process, allowing it to be enhanced through all sorts of pre-treatment, sorting and washing steps. This identification is one of the areas C-Ray is working. We want to look inside incoming bulk streams and know in near-real time what molecules we will find. It could be designated as the chemical version of a high-speed camera.
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Field Alchemy (Electricon)
Where G-BT is focusing on solid waste streams mostly, Triple Helix Alchemy is developing solutions for the conversion and handling of liquid and gaseous waste streams. These can be real waste streams or residual streams from a number of industries like chemicals, petro-chemicals, agriculture, food and of course pharmaceuticals. Given the economy of scale business model of these industries, the volumes and sub-optimal end-of-life are often quite problematic. Reason enough for Triple Helix to help convert and reuse them. Triple Helix Electricon is part of the Alchemy portfolio, but many more streams are being investigated in different stages of development and market maturity.
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