Pyrolysis Companies in United Kingdom

A Healthier Earth is building the UK's largest biochar carbon removal facility in Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, backed by Pure Data Centres Group with a £24M investment. The PYREG-equipped plant targets 9,000 TPY of biochar and 17,000–18,500 TCO2 removal annually, operational from November 2025.

Carlton Forest Renewables operates the UK's first continuous tire pyrolysis plant, processing approximately 8,000 TPY of end-of-life tyre feedstock and producing refined carbon char (rCB) and eco-pyrolysis oil. The plant was operational as of 2022.

Clean Planet Energy develops ecoPlant modular pyrolysis facilities converting difficult-to-recycle mixed plastics into purified pyrolysis oil. The company has two UK sites under development — Teesside (24,000 TPY) and Sleaford, Lincolnshire (25,000 TPY) — both targeting commissioning in 2026.

CPL Industries operates a commercial-scale hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) facility at Immingham, converting high-moisture food waste biomass into biocoal. The plant was commissioned in 2018 using Ingelia technology and remains one of the few commercial HTC plants operating in the UK.

Endolys is developing the UK's first large-scale plastic film pyrolysis facility in Darlington, Tees Valley. Phase 1 will process 60,000 TPY of shredded plastic film waste into approximately 40,000 TPY of pyrolysis oil, with a total investment of £120M.

FuturEnergy is a UK-based company that designs and delivers commercial biomass pyrolysis and tire pyrolysis plants. The company has active projects in tyre pyrolysis using WF Recycle-Tech reactors and is developing biomass pyrolysis biochar plants for UK clients.

Mura Technology is commercialising Hydro-PRT (Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling Technology), a supercritical water process that converts mixed plastic waste into circular hydrocarbons. Its first commercial-scale plant at Wilton International, Teesside, entered commissioning in 2025 with a 20,000 TPY capacity.

Murfitts Industries, the UK's largest tyre recycling company, has announced a £14M joint venture with Michelin to build a tire pyrolysis plant in Stoke-on-Trent. The facility will process up to 12,500 TPY of end-of-life tyres into rCB and tyre pyrolysis oil, with energy generated for Michelin's on-site manufacturing.

Plastic Energy is a Spanish-founded company that operates two commercial tire-grade plastic pyrolysis plants in Spain and is expanding into France. The company uses its proprietary Thermal Anaerobic Conversion (TAC) process to produce TACOIL, a certified pyrolysis oil feedstock for petrochemical use. France site development has been signalled in partnership discussions with TotalEnergies.

Powerhouse Energy Group is a UK-listed company commercialising its proprietary DMG® technology, which converts unrecyclable plastics and waste into hydrogen and energy via a pyrolysis-based gasification process. A pilot unit is operational in Wales.

Recycling Technologies (RT) is a UK-based plastic recycling technology company commercialising its RT7000 machine — a modular 7,000 TPY (20 TPD) continuous pyrolysis unit that converts difficult-to-recycle plastic film into Plaxx® liquid hydrocarbon. The company has raised significant UK government funding and has orders from waste management companies.

Waverly Carbon is the UK's only commercial producer of refined recovered carbon black (rCB), operating a processing plant in Melton Mowbray with up to 8,000 TPY capacity. Products are available in pelletised and powder forms for use in plastics, rubber, ink, and coatings.