Swindon-based Recycling Technologies prices IPO and signs manufacturing deal

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Peter Davison

Recycling Technologies, the Swindon-based company whose innovative manufacturing process can turn plastic packaging back into oil, has moved ahead with its initial public offering on AIM in London.

Shares are priced at 110 pence each, which gives the firm a market capitalisation of £80 million.

The IPO is being led by Stifel Nicolaus Europe Ltd as the broker and nominated adviser, and the company hopes to raise £30 million.

When it first announced its plans in November last year, Recycling Technologies had hoped to raise £40 million and attain a market capitalisation of between £102 million and £110 million.

The offer closes on Tuesday, March 29 and first dealings are expected on April 5.

Meanwhile, Recycling Technologies has announced a new collaboration with the Finnish company Sumitomo SHI FW.

SFW has a long history of delivering complex energy technology solutions and projects across the globe.

Its energy solutions range from its world-leading CFB and gasification technologies to carbon capture, long-duration energy storage, and energy from waste technologies.

To support the engineering, fabrication, and delivery of energy projects worldwide, SFW has developed a global delivery and manufacturing network, including its own manufacturing workshops in Poland, China, Thailand, and the Nordics that are particularly well suited to fabricating and assembling modular equipment to oil and gas standards.

This engineering, fabrication and assembly capability has more recently been brought to bear in the development of a modular Energy from Waste plant that SFW is bringing to market globally.

The collaboration includes the exploration of:

1. a manufacturing partnership between SFW and RT for the RT7000 that could meet RT’s ambition to mass-produce about 200 machines per year by 2029.

2. harnessing the combined engineering expertise of SFW and RT to improve the efficiency and increase the yields of the RT7000, lower its carbon footprint to chemically recycle waste plastic and reduce manufacturing costs harnessing SFW’s engineering and manufacturing expertise in fluidized bed technology and modular energy systems.

3. using SFW’s global footprint to assist sales of the RT7000 globally, and

4. incorporating the RT7000 into SFW’s waste to energy plant as an optional value-added alternative to recover waste plastic streams, previously incinerated.

“The global plastic production is predicted to increase to one billion tons p.a. by 2050 and we believe that chemical recycling will have an important role in making this more circular. The collaboration with RT supports SFW’s strategy to become part of this development and we are looking forward to working with RT on these issues,” said Frank Ligthart, vice president, strategic business development, Waste to Value.

“This collaboration represents an important milestone in RT’s strategy to mass produce our RT7000s, reduce their manufacturing costs, improve their efficiency and expand our global marketing and sales channels. These steps will speed up our goal to make plastic more sustainable through innovation, technology and determination,” said Adrian Griffiths, CEO of Recycling Technologies.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.