RE:clic by TotalEnergies: Pioneering Circular Solutions in Plastics
Focus on renewable energy and sustainability
A Nordmann partner now for over 40 years, TotalEnergies is affirming its ambition to be a major player in the energy transition and is committing to a carbon-neutral approach, together with society, by profoundly transforming its production and sales while continuing to meet the energy needs of a growing population.
To do that, TotalEnergies is reinventing and diversifying its energy offering to promote renewable and decarbonized energies, as well as sparing, well-considered use of fossil energies.
Three manufacturing methods, one common goal
Committed to producing one million tons of circular polymers by 2030, TotalEnergies has created its low carbon polymers range to address waste circularity, gathering 3 different and complementary product lines: RE:use, RE:build and RE:newable.
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RE:use – plastics made from mechanically recycled materials
TotalEnergies’ RE:use polymers are produced from mechanically sorted and re-granulated post-consumer and post-industrial plastic waste in multiple sites across Europe. It offers recycled polypropylene, polyethylene and polystyrene suitable for automotive, construction, durable and homecare applications.
TotalEnergies continues to expand its portfolio as it opened in 2024 a new line in its Carling site, France, dedicated to the production of recycled polypropylene compounds that meet the highest requirements of the automotive sector.
RE:build – high quality advanced recycled materials
TotalEnergies’ RE:build products are produced through advanced recycling. This allows to process waste streams that are difficult to recycle and therefore not suitable for mechanical recycling, which would otherwise end up in landfills or incinerators. Since 2020, the TotalEnergies plant in Antwerp has been processing pyrolysis oil to make advanced recycled plastics that are indistinguishable from virgin materials and exhibit the same level of performance. Their sustainability characteristics are certified under ISCC-PLUS and tracked through a mass balance approach. These polymers are suitable for use in high-quality, demanding applications such as food-contact articles. TotalEnergies is currently in the process of converting its Grandpuits refinery south-east of Paris to a zero-crude platform including the France's first advanced plastics recycling plant (partnership with Plastic Energy) capable of converting 15,000 metric tons of plastic waste into pyrolysis oil.
RE:newable – bio-certified and bio-based polymers offer
Bio-certified
TotalEnergies fully benefits from the integration with its biorefineries to access ISCC PLUS certified renewable feedstocks under its RE:newable range. Co-processed into polymers in their own production assets , these products allow to reduce carbon emissions without compromising on performance. These polymers derive from bio feedstocks, such as vegetable oils, or bio-circular feedstocks, such as used cooking oils.
Bio based
In Rayong, Thailand, TotalEnergies Corbion has the capacity to produce 75,000 tons of PLA (polylactic acid) each year – a fully biobased, recyclable and biocompostable polymer that can be manufactured from sugarcane and starch.
As all TotalEnergies polymer plants in Europe have been awarded ISCC PLUS certification, the full range of TotalEnergies products (PE / PP / PS / EPS) is commercially available as TotalEnergies RE:build and RE:newable polymers via ISCC PLUS certification.
About TotalEnergies and Polymers
TotalEnergies is a global multi-energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. TotalEnergies’ more than 100,000 employees are committed to energy that is ever more affordable, cleaner, more reliable and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than 130 countries, TotalEnergies puts sustainable development in all its dimensions at the heart of its projects and operations to contribute to the well-being of people.
TotalEnergies develops, produces and commercializes polymers — polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, their recycled equivalents and biopolymers — that can be incorporated in the plastics manufacturing process. Lighter than many alternative materials, they help reduce the carbon footprint of end-use applications through enhanced energy efficiency.
Together with partners along the entire value chain, TotalEnergies is driving forward the circular economy through innovative recycling processes and the use of renewable raw materials with the aim of producing one million tons of recyclable polymers by 2030.
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