Neste RE
Neste RE is a raw material for plastics that is made entirely out of renewable and recycled materials. It is a drop-in solution that can be used on its own or in a blend to create products of identical quality to those made out of conventional virgin fossil raw materials.
Our approach
Neste’s ambition is to collaborate with the industry forerunners to create a world where plastics are produced from renewable and recycled materials without virgin fossil oil.
Renewable & recycled
Neste-produced Neste RE is produced without virgin fossil oil. It consists 100% of renewable and recycled material that can be used to reduce the need for fossil oil based material in the production of climate-friendlier polymers and chemicals.
Accelerating circularity
There is an urgent need to develop solutions to curb the increasing climate emissions while simultaneously tackling the global plastic waste challenge. Neste believes that accelerating the shift to a circular plastic economy provides solutions to both.
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Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, CHIMEI Corporation and Mitsubishi Corporation join forces to create a renewable plastics supply chain
Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, CHIMEI and Mitsubishi Corporation have agreed to build a renewable plastics supply chain
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Collaboration between Neste, Borealis and MAM brings new soother made with renewably-sourced feedstock to market
Neste, Borealis and MAM collaboratively announce an exciting product development made possible by value chain collaboration.
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Neste to receive funding from the EU Innovation Fund for chemical recycling project in Porvoo
Neste has received a positive grant decision for up to EUR 135 million from the EU Innovation Fund for the company’s project to build chemical recycling capacities at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.
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Chemical recycling of plastic: Neste acquires European rights to Alterra Energy’s thermochemical liquefaction technology
Neste has purchased the European rights to Alterra Energy’s liquefaction technology, further solidifying the company’s efforts to advance chemical recycling.
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Neste, Covestro and SK geo centric cooperate to create value chain for renewable attributed MDI in APAC
Neste, Covestro and South Korean petrochemical company SK geo centric are cooperating to enable the production of a major polyurethane raw material based on renewable raw materials via mass balance.
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Transparent and traceable: Neste teams up with Circularise to increase visibility along circular polymers and chemicals value chains
Neste and Netherlands-based startup Circularise have announced a partnership to bring Circularise’s traceability software into circular polymers and chemicals supply chains.
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New pretreatment and upgrading capabilities: Neste works on next step towards commercializing chemical recycling
Proceeding on the target of commercializing chemical recycling of waste plastic, Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.
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Neste successfully concludes first series of processing trial runs at industrial scale with liquefied waste plastic in Porvoo, Finland
Neste has successfully concluded its first series of trial runs processing liquefied waste plastic at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.
How to contact us?
If you wish to contact our sales or wish to discuss partnership opportunities related to our renewable and circular solutions for polymers and chemicals
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Neste and Ravago plan to set up a joint venture to focus on chemical recycling of waste plastic
Neste and Ravago aim to establish a joint venture to build an industrial facility for chemical recycling in North Sea Port in Vlissingen, the Netherlands
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Life cycle assessment shows: Neste RE renewable hydrocarbons cut carbon footprint by more than 85% over fossil feedstock for polymers and chemicals industry
Neste recently conducted a life cycle assessment (LCA) study* on the environmental impacts of the usage of its 100% renewable feedstock, Neste RE™.
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Neste acquires minority stake in Alterra Energy
Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel and an expert in delivering drop-in renewable and circular chemical solutions, today announced that it has acquired a minority stake in Alterra Energy, an innovative chemical recycling technology company.
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Neste RE enables a future where all plastic products can be made of renewable and recycled materials – and the future starts today
Neste launched a new product, Neste RE, a 100% renewable and recycled raw material for plastics and chemicals production.
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Neste, Mitsui Chemicals and Toyota Tsusho start collaboration
Mitsui Chemicals will use Neste RE™, 100% bio-based hydrocarbons, to become Japan’s first company to use bio-based feedstock in its crackers.
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Neste and DSM announce strategic partnership to create high performance materials made from sustainable feedstock
Neste and Royal DSM started a strategic partnership to enable the production of high-performance polymers from feedstock produced from recycled waste plastics and/or 100% bio-based hydrocarbons.
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Neste and LG Chem building a strategic partnership to drive the polymers and chemicals industry transformation towards a circular bioeconomy
Neste and LG Chem announced their aim to build a strategic long-term partnership to develop and grow the biopolymers and biochemicals market globally.
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Neste and Jokey collaborate to develop the market for rigid packaging from renewable and recycled materials
Neste and Jokey, a leading international manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging, have started collaborating with a target to develop the market for rigid packaging from sustainable renewable and recycled materials for food and non-food applications.
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Neste and Covestro join forces – renewable raw materials for plastics production
Neste and Covestro started cooperation in Europe to promote the use of sustainable raw materials in plastics production. Covestro will be supplied with material from renewable sources to replace a significant portion of the fossil raw materials in the manufacture of polycarbonates.
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Borealis producing certified renewable polypropylene from Neste’s renewable propane at own facilities in Belgium
This marks the first time that Borealis has replaced fossil fuel-based feedstock in its large-scale commercial production of PP.
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Neste, Brightlands Venture Partners, 4 Impact VC and Asahi Kasei invests combined EUR 11 million into startup Circularise to accelerate a shift towards a circular economy
Neste, Brightlands Venture Partners, 4 Impact VC and Asahi Kasei announce a combined EUR 11 million investment into Netherlands-based startup Circularise. The goal of the investment is to accelerate the transformation to more sustainable materials within the polymers and chemicals industry by providing new digital solutions to boost traceability and visibility of material flows along value chains.
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Neste and LyondellBasell announce commercial-scale production of bio-based plastic from renewable materials
The joint project used Neste’s renewable hydrocarbons derived from sustainable bio-based raw materials, such as waste and residue oils.
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