IGE starts up plastics-to-fuel plant

Integrated Green Energy Ltd. (IGE) has completed the first stage in the commissioning of its Berkeley Vale plastics-to-fuels plant in Berkeley, Australia. Road-ready fuels have been produced that will be independently tested and evaluated, according to IGE.

The plant was supplied by Foyson Resources Ltd., North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, which says that Integrated Green Energy will be adding a number of enhancements to the facility over the next several weeks, including further testing and validation.

Foyson Resources says the facility is the first commercial scale plant in Australia that can convert plastic scrap to fuel.

The commissioning of the facility follows IGE securing a second feedstock contract to supply the 50 metric tons of plastic scrap needed per day to feed the plastics-to-fuel facility.

The two contracts will supply the entire feedstock requirements of the plant for the first three years of operations, as the facility’s throughput increases from 50 metric tons per day to 200 metric tons per day, IGE says.

The contracts will be assigned to Foyson on completion of the IGE transaction, which is planned to occur, subject to shareholder approval, at a meeting to be held on or about June 10, 2015.

IGE CEO Bevan Dooley says, “Feedstock security is fundamental to the IGE business model. We will continue to search for strategic partners to aggregate feedstock in major population centers in line with our growth plans. This contract is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we believe is available for expansion in the future.”