Niutech Signs Agreement with Global Energy Major to Supply Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Line for SAF Production
Why It MattersThe deal signals waste plastic pyrolysis oil emerging as a second SAF feedstock route as regulatory blending mandates tighten and used cooking oil supply grows constrained.
Niutech Technology Group Co., Ltd, a STAR Market-listed Chinese company specialising in industrial continuous pyrolysis technology, has signed a sales agreement with an undisclosed global energy major to supply an Industrial Continuous Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Production Line, marking its first entry into that customer's equipment supply chain. Under the deal, Niutech's patented pyrolysis technology and equipment will upgrade a large refinery owned by the customer, giving it integrated capability from pyrolysis oil to hydrotreated Sustainable Aviation Fuel.
Niutech's single-unit pyrolysis line has a processing capacity of 10,000 to 50,000 tonnes per year, and can directly pyrolyse low-value mixed waste plastics — including PP, PE, PS, ABS and nylon — without complex washing, sorting, drying or fine shredding. The customer has identified SAF as a strategic priority under broader sustainability commitments.
Demand for SAF feedstocks is intensifying: under the EU's ReFuelEU Aviation regulation, SAF blending in jet fuel is mandatory at 2% from 2025, rising to 6% by 2030 and 70% by 2050, with the UK and Singapore having enacted their own blending mandates. Used cooking oil currently dominates SAF feedstock supply, but limited availability is driving the search for alternatives, with waste plastic pyrolysis oil emerging as a promising second route. A Niutech market executive said the company has focused on pyrolysis technology for nearly 40 years and has supported 10,000-tonne-scale continuous pyrolysis projects in dozens of countries, including Germany, the UK, South Korea, Denmark and Brazil.
