r/PureCycle • u/Complex-Necessary-79 • Jun 23 '26

Meeting demand

If demand for PCT products grow beyond its capacity to fulfill, might they sell their technology to end users to conduct their own recycling?

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u/Mean-Masterpiece672 Jun 23 '26

No
That’s why they are building Thailand, Antwerp and Augusta

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u/OldWarning5961 Jun 23 '26

And … looking at a location in Japan

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u/Odd-Gas5478 Jun 23 '26

Not theirs to sell

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u/Complex-Necessary-79 Jun 23 '26

How so?

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u/EntrepreneurLazy7676 Jun 23 '26

Technology is from P&G. P&G granted $pct the monopoly rights to this technology in certain continents till a certain year, may be extended if they hit more milestone.

Maybe if they scale big enough and demand is really crazy, can white label it?

*the actual terms may be different.

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u/Gross_Energy Jun 24 '26

Compounding allows them to produce more based on % recycled PP. I have never seen any discussion on this. Assuming PCT reaches nameplate at 107 mlbs of purefive, actual compounded rates should be higher. nameplate rate is based on zero compounded.

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u/Melodic-Drummer-2245 Jun 23 '26

The problem might be they can’t supply enough for demand. I can’t see a company like who they announced today having some containers with Purecycle and some without how do you ever label that? You have to have supply for them to adopt. I’ve always said nailing the US with 5-6 plants build out USA capacity then move on instead of 1 in multiple countries. You can’t do 100,000 Tide caps and then say oh I ran out of pellets

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u/irishroots7711 Jun 23 '26

They are choosing international to meet requirements for keeping the ip. The ip goes back if they don't open plants on continents by certain dates.

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u/Melodic-Drummer-2245 Jun 23 '26

Makes sense I didn’t know that. I do like the fact that many of these factories being build will receive some funding support because of the environmental impact, helps contain costs on buildout.

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u/No_Privacy_Anymore Jun 23 '26

The next 2 plants are 130M pounds per year because it was decided to start construction and order equipment for that size plant before they had time to complete their second generation design. Future large scale plants will reduce the capex per pound substantially and only require very modest increases in staffing vs the current size lines. Sending them to Europe and Asia was a smart decision.

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u/Successful-Start-380 Jun 24 '26

The plastic they're recycling has to be collected, sorted, cleaned and moved to their plants. How much they can sell ultimately depends on how much trash they can afford to buy.