About Us

Our Mission:

To develop and commercialize game-changing, efficient, cost-effective sustainable technologies, that create value to our customers and improve the world’s circular economy.



Founded in 2008, Anellotech is a sustainable technology company that has invented and is developing innovative technologies to produce cost effective, renewable chemical and to recycle mixed plastics.

Over the past years Anellotech has raised over US$80 million in cash and in-kind contributions to develop its patented Bio-TCat™ technology, an efficient thermal catalytic process for converting biomass into benzene, toluene and xylene, which are chemically identical to their petroleum-based counterparts. The process has been extensively demonstrated with loblolly pine feedstocks at Anellotech’s TCat-8® pilot plant in Silsbee, Texas. Engineering work to design the first commercial plant has been completed by Anellotech and its R&D, engineering and licensing partners IFPEN and Axens. Work to obtain capital funding, partners and an industrial site is underway.

Anellotech’s world-class R&D team has established long-term partnerships with leaders in process development, catalysis, engineering design, and licensing. Anellotech’s alliance network for the advancing of the Bio-TCat technology includes:

  • Johnson Matthey, a global specialty chemicals company which is co-developing and providing catalysts for the development program and can manufacture catalysts for commercial use. 
  • IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), the French public research entity, is collaborating with Anellotech throughout the process development program. 
  • Axens, an international provider of licensed advanced technologies, is our partner for commercialization, global licensing, basic engineering design, start-up and technical support for licensees.   
  • Suntory, one of the world’s leading consumer beverage companies, has partnered with Anellotech to advance the development and commercialization of cost-competitive bio-aromatics, including bio-paraxylene, the key component needed to make a 100 percent bio-based PET beverage bottles. 
  • Toyota Tsusho Corporation, is the Toyota Group's general trading company that develops diversified businesses.

Another important goal for Anellotech is reinventing the future of plastic recycling, by enabling recycling of major plastics including single-use packaging materials that are are today often landfilled, incinerated, or littered, polluting land and oceans. With this purpose, Anellotech has developed Plas-TCatTM, a development-stage process technology aiming to convert mixed waste plastics into commodity chemicals such as olefins and aromatics, the primary chemicals used to make plastic packaging and other products. Anellotech’s Plas-TCat™ recycling process aims to be scalable up to chemical industry volumes, flexible enough to use most plastic wastes as feedstocks, with an attractive LCA, enabling the purchase of waste plastic feedstock, while delivering attractive investment economics.

Anellotech is receiving financial and strategic support for the development of Plas-TCat technology from R Plus Japan Ltd. (“RPJ”), a newly formed joint venture company among 30 cross-industry partners within the Japanese plastics supply chain (such as Suntory Holdings Ltd., TOYOBO Co. Ltd., and Rengo Co. Ltd) with the goal to have a Plas-TCat commercial unit operating in Japan in 2027.

Anellotech is currently seeking forward looking companies to join them in accelerating the development and the commercial implementation of the Bio-TCat and Plas-TCat technologies. For more information, please contact: information@anellotech.com

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