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Mazda strengthens its recycling technology business
High Performance Plastics, August, 1993
Japanese company Mazda Motor Corp is planning to use plastic separation and recycling technology to develop an engineering plant.
The firm began developing the technology in June 1992 as a means of handling large volumes of plastic waste from scrap cars and processing it back into petroleum products. Conventional techniques cannot be used to recycle chlorine plastics because the catalysers lose their functionality when they come into contact with hydrogen chloride. Mazda, however, has developed a catalyser which can withstand exposure to hydrogen chloride.
The company is already operating a pilot plant on a trial basis at its Hiroshima Research Centre. The facility can process 2 kg of plastic at a time, but Mazda plans to develop a continuous version which...
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