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"There IS No Waste
Only Renewable Resources"
We are a technological company dedicated to providing innovative, sustainable and protable solutions for the global waste problem. Our R&D team members have over 30 years of experience developing patented technologies. We develop innovations which can eectively break down waste’s molecular structures and eciently convert their building blocks into clean fuels, chemicals and other resources – and positively impact the environment. Our core competency is a technology that produces liquid hydrocarbons, which can be used as feedstock for plastic or engine fuels components, from non-recyclable waste plastic. As a R&D focused company, we continue to work on developing subsequent generations of technologies targeting other problematic waste.
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GOAL IS TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE:
- Cost eective alternative to incineration and landlling so as to encourage recycling.
- Technically scalable thus viable for both small and large cities so waste could be processed at local level and reduce the carbon footprint of transporting waste across country and world.
- Eective conversion of waste so as to maximize energy locked in waste
- Minimal by-product so additional waste problems are not created.
- Viable and sustainable without government subsidies so as not to be subject to changes in policy.
- Environmentally positive
- Produce attractive earnings and returns for our customers.
OUR MISSION IS TO DEVELOP
THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT
ENABLE THE RENEWAL
OF WASTE INTO VALUABLE
RESOURCES
About us
LUKASZ PUTO
CEO of PFT Technology
CEO of PFT Technology
Founder, Main Shareholder and CEO of Polymers Fraction Technology Sp. z o.o.
DOMINIKA J. ROSTOCKA
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Founder, Main Shareholder and Vice President of the Management Board of Polymers Fraction Technology Sp. z o. o.
The Story of Technology
Handerek Technologies has created a groundbreaking patented technology which chemically recycles waste plastic into feedstock to make clean recycled plastics or to be used as low-carbon alternative fuels. We aim to become the global standard in plastic to fuel technology and have a signicant positive environmental impact by maximizing waste recycling.
COMBINING BUSINESS EXPERIENCE WITH ENGINEERING INNOVATION FUELED BY A PASSION
FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Observing the growing environmental problem of plastic waste in 2004, Adam Hańderek
began research and development work on technologies of thermal and thermo-catalytic
processing of waste plastics into C1 – C24 hydrocarbon fractions from 2005-2017.
Over that period, 8 research installations on a quarter-technical scale were developed,
testing a variety of dierent apparatus solutions in the eld of thermal de-polymerization
of waste plastics. Many of them have been patented in the country and in the world.
The research tasks were aimed at nding an eective way of heating waste plastics
while eliminating excessive coking of the raw material in the reactor and obtaining
products boiling up to a maximum temperature of 360 ° C in one integrated process.
In 2014, Adam and his team had a paradigm shift and approached the problem in an
innovative way. This led to the development of a new highly eective reactor with none
of the by-product waste problems plaguing other technologies. The solution was
registered for patenting and in 2017 obtained patent protection in Poland. In the same
year, extension of patent protection internationally was led.
In 2016, Adam and his research came to the attention of Susan Kim-Chomicka, a serial
entrepreneur with global experience who is passionate about the environment and
making a social impact. Impressed by the innovative technology, its environmental
impact as well as the passion and dedication of Adam Hańderek and his team, she rst
joined the group as an advisor and investor funding further research.
A research installation was established as part of a research contract with PIMOT
Automotive Industry Institute. Extensive tests were carried out in which the adopted
process assumptions in batch technology were conrmed. Further research work
focused on optimization of the process conditions which resulted in the next patent
application led in 2017. The registration of the patent application for the whole process
allowed the invention to be presented at the fair of inventions and subjected to an
international assessment.
The Company, Received
Numerous Awards For
Achievements In Innovation:
- iENA Nuremberg, Germany, 2017 – Grand Prix.
- INNOVA in Barcelona, Spain, 2017 – Gold Medal with Distinction and Grand Prix in the category of industrial inventions.
- ARCHIMEDES in Moscow, Russia, 2017 – Gold Medal with Distinction and the Cup of the Union of Engineers and Inventors of Russia.
- INTARG in Katowice, Poland, 2017 – Platinum Medal, Grand Prix INTARG, Cup of the President of NOT (Polish Federation of Engineering Associations), and an individual award for Adam Hańderek – “Leader of Innovation” in the Personality category.
- Belt & Road Initiative Innovation Fair in Chengdu, China, 2016 – Grand Prix and Star of Business Start-up.
Łukasiewicz Research Network
Automotive Industry Institute
Handerek Technologies has signed a research and development cooperation agreement with PIMOT aimed at developing waste processing technologies.
DR ANNA MATUSZEWSKA Ph.D. Eng.
Specializes in research in the eld of tribochemistry, fuels and alternative fuels, including those obtained from waste materials. In 1993, she graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw. In 2008, at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Cracow University of Technology, she obtained a PhD degree in the discipline of Construction and Operation of Machines. Until 2007, she worked at the Institute for Sustainable Technologies – National Research Institute in Radom, where she dealt with, among others, chemical phenomena occurring in the friction node.
PROF. KRZYSZTOF BIERNAT Ph.D. Eng.
A licensed expert in the eld of fuel and energy economy and an outstanding specialist in chemical thermodynamics of environmental processes as well as developing technologies, quality evaluation and use of exploitative liquids, including biofuels, and bioranery systems. Professor of the Automotive Industry Institute (PIMOT), acting as Head of Department of Fuels and Bioeconomy, and a lecturer at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University. Coordinator of Polish Technology Platform for Biofuels, and a member of Coordination Committee of Polish Technology Platform of Bioeconomy
PROF. ZDZISŁAW CHŁOPEK hab. Ph.D. Eng.
An outstanding expert in the eld of construction and operation of industrial machinery and installations, automotive and transport as well as environmental protection. His interests include problems of pollution from combustion engines, unconventional fuels or environmentally friendly solutions in transport. Professor at the Warsaw Technical University and at the Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute. Expert of the Ministry of the Environment, Automotive Industry Institute, Municipal Transport Chamber of Commerce. Participant of many research projects of the State Committee for Scientic Research and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
PROF. MACIEJ PACZUSKI Ph.D. Eng
An outstanding specialist in the area of fuels and petroleum technologies. Head of the Department of Chemistry and Organic Technology at the Warsaw University of Technology. Member of the Supervisory Board of the Automotive Industry Institute a n d e x p e r t o f t h e M i n i s t r y o f Entrepreneurship and Technology. In the past, he worked in and managed the Institute of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology in Płock several times. He conducted numerous research and implementation works – including for the needs of PKN Orlen. Author and coauthor of 44 publications, 29 papers, 32 scientic and research papers, and 11 patents and patent applications.
DR ANDRZEJ WOJCIECHOWSKI hab. Ph.D. Eng.
An outstanding expert in the eld of construction and operation of machines, material engineering, manufacturing technology and properties of construction materials, transport, recycling of cars and their exploitation products, material recovery, environmental protection and closed circulation management. President of the Polish Scientic Recycling Association, director of the Motor Transport Institute, professor of the Institute of Precision Mechanics. Auditor of the Polish Center for Testing and Certication. A member of numerous scientic organizations, including Polish Society of Ecological Vehicles, Polish Scientic and Technical Society for Exploitation and the Polish Society of Materials Science
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Our technology processes waste plastics that are not suitable for material recycling, such as soiled lms, multi-material packaging, all types of consumer packaging, as well as industrial waste excluding PVC and PU. Test were performed at waste sorting facilities in order to determine the possibility of sorting the desired types of waste plastics from mixed municipal waste and to determine the proper linkage between the waste sorting facility and the waste to fuel installation. The tests conrmed the ability to obtain the raw material and the possibility of establishing the waste to fuel installation directly downstream of the waste sorting process. Our process is not harmed with allowable ratio of feedstock containing materials which are typically used for other recycling technologies, like e.g. PET.
TYPE OF PLASTIC WASTE
Our technology processes waste plastics that are not suitable for material recycling, such as soiled lms, multi-material packaging, all types of consumer packaging, as well as industrial waste excluding PVC and PU. Test were performed at waste sorting facilities in order to determine the possibility of sorting the desired types of waste plastics from mixed municipal waste and to determine the proper linkage between the waste sorting facility and the waste to fuel installation. The tests conrmed the ability to obtain the raw material and the possibility of establishing the waste to fuel installation directly downstream of the waste sorting process. Our process is not harmed with allowable ratio of feedstock containing materials which are typically used for other recycling technologies, like e.g. PET.
FUELING THE CIRCULAR
ECONOMY WITH A TECHNOLOGY
TO CHEMICALLY RECYCLE
PLASTIC WASTE
TSTATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY OF
WASTE PLASTICS CONVERSION INTO FUELS
1 KG WASTE PLASTICS = 1 L FUEL
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Handerek Technologies developed a technology enabling an eective and ecient recycling of mixed polymer (plastic) waste – in particular, of polyolens (polyethylene PE, polypropylene PP and polystyrene PS). After recycling, the end product is a liquid hydrocarbon which can be used as a feedstock for clean recycled plastic or as EU standard fuel components, diesel, gasoline fraction and jet fuel fractions.
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS:
- Unwashed polyolens mix used as feedstock
- High recycling eciency between 83-90% depending on mix of plastic
- Minimal solid by-product – 1-2% dry carbon coke (commodity which can be sold)
- Process designed to operate in a continuous mode
- Process runs under atmospheric pressure and in low temperature
- Process is energy self-sucient providing gas and fuel used to operate it
STEPS OF THE PROCESS:
1. Sorted post-consumer polyolen waste plastic is accepted.
2. Plastics is pre-treated by shredding, screening and agglomeration.
3. The plastic is then fed into a pre-process homogenization device.
4. The pre-processed plastic feeds to the depolymerization reactor in which the catalytic thermal process breaks
down the carbon polymer chains into C1 to C24 hydrocarbon vapors – after this module the vapors can be
condensed to ultra-low sulfur clean oil which can be used for heating, power generation or ship transportation fuel or
can continue to the enrichment process.
5. The vapour travels to the hydrotreatment reactor where it is hydrogenated and isomerized at atmospheric pressure
then condensed.
6. The resulting liquid hydrocarbons are then fractionated by boiling points to various hydrocarbon products such as
naphtha and diesel. These products can used for feedstock to produce recycled plastics or a low-carbon alternative
fuel which can be blended with traditional fuels from crude oil.
TESTED, AWARDED AND PATENTED
- Process, end product fuels and emissions tested by PIMOT Automotive Industry Institute
- Patent received in 2017, second patent received in 2019
- Grands Prix and Gold Medals awarded at largest innovation and technology fairs in Europe: iNEA, INNOVA, ARCHIMEDES and INTARG
BENEFITS:
- End product is fuel of quality compliant with EU standards:
- diese
- gasoline fraction
- jet fuel fraction
- Process is commercially attractive without external subsidies
- Technology generates revenues thus minimizing overall waste management cost for local governments and communities
- Positive environmental impact
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY:
- Unique technology resulting directly in engine fuels meetings the requirements of EU standards and ready to use or sale
- Designed to operate in a continuous mode
- Process runs under atmospheric pressure
- Process is energy self-sucient providing gas and fuel used to operate it
OTHER ADVANTAGES:
- Eective plastic waste management and recycling
- Reduction of plastic waste in landlls and environment
- Respect for natural resources of raw materials
- Increased energy diversication
- Reduces import of crude oil
- Fuel produced with CO2 emissions lower than that of production from crude oil
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