# Aduro selects Saipem for preliminary services at Chemelot recycling project

> The Netherlands project targets an initial 10,000 tonnes per year of capacity using Aduro's Hydrochemolytic technology.

- Topic: Contract award
- Event date: 2026-08-19
- First published on EPC Feed: 2026-10-28T18:18:08.936Z
- Updated: 2026-10-28T18:18:08.936Z
- Companies: Saipem
- Countries: Netherlands
- Page: https://epcfeed.com/news/aduro-saipem-chemelot-chemical-recycling-development-2026


Aduro Clean Technologies has selected Saipem to support development of an advanced chemical-recycling facility at Chemelot Industrial Park in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands. Saipem announced the selection on 19 August 2026. The Canadian company's proposed facility would use its proprietary Hydrochemolytic technology to convert complex plastic waste into chemical and petrochemical feedstocks. It is described as Aduro's first industrial-scale plant, making the translation of the process into an industrial facility a central feature of the assignment.

The project has an initial stated capacity of 10,000 tonnes per year. That figure describes the announced scale of the facility; the release does not present it as a guaranteed annual quantity of recovered products. It also does not provide a detailed material balance, commercial operating date or capital cost. Those omissions matter when evaluating recycling projects because a capacity statement alone does not establish the quantity, quality or destination of every output stream.

Saipem's initial work covers preliminary engineering and procurement services, technical and economic optimisation, and support for industrialising the technology. The announcement allows for possible later involvement in engineering, construction and commissioning. It does not establish that all those later phases have already been awarded. The current appointment should therefore be tracked as development services with potential follow-on work, rather than as an unconditional turnkey contract for a completed operating plant.

EPC Feed's reading is that this stage connects process development with decisions about an industrial installation. Preliminary engineering can clarify equipment arrangements and the boundaries between the proprietary technology and supporting plant systems. Technical and economic optimisation then helps frame the choices that would need to be resolved before a subsequent execution commitment. These are implications of the disclosed scope, not evidence that specific designs or procurement orders have already been completed.

Chemelot's location near Belgium and Germany gives the project a defined industrial setting, but the release does not identify committed customers or waste-supply contracts. Further milestones would need to establish the selected development configuration, the extent of any later Saipem award and the timetable for physical delivery. Keeping those questions separate from the initial capacity figure makes it possible to follow the project without overstating the maturity of its commercial or construction arrangements.

## Sources

1. [Saipem selected to support the development of an advanced chemical recycling plant in the Netherlands](https://www.saipem.com/en/media/news/saipem-selected-to-support-the-development-of-an-advanced-chemical-recycling-plant-in-the-netherlands). Company release, Saipem, Published 2026-08-19, Read 2026-10-28.