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Al-Karak · JordanPlastic pyrolysis

Plastic that had nowhere to go, leaves here as fuel

Jordan's first plastic pyrolysis facility. We hold hard-to-recycle plastic at 300–500°C with no oxygen in the chamber. It cannot burn — so it cracks, into diesel.

I have plastic waste→See inside the reactor

01 — The Challenge

A country that imports its fuel is burying the fuel it already has.

Mechanical recycling needs plastic that is clean, sorted and worth sorting. Greenhouse film caked in soil, mixed factory offcuts, multi-layer packaging — none of it qualifies. It goes to landfill, or it gets burned in the open.

That plastic is hydrocarbon. It came out of the ground as oil, and it is sitting in a landfill in a country that buys almost every litre of fuel it uses from someone else.

96%
of Jordan's energy is importedWorld Bank / IEA, 2022 ↗
roughly 300,000 tonnes
of plastic waste a year — 15% of 2.1M tonnes of municipal wasteGreen Growth National Action Plan 2021–2025 ↗
7%
of Jordan's solid waste is recycledGreen Growth National Action Plan 2021–2025 ↗

02 — How it Works

Without oxygen, plastic cannot burn. It cracks instead.

This is the part everyone assumes is incineration. It isn't. Burning needs oxygen — we take the oxygen away and apply heat anyway. The long polymer chains have nowhere to go but apart, and what comes off is hydrocarbon vapour. Cool it, and it is diesel.

  1. 01

    Collect

    Hard-to-recycle plastic is sourced across Jordan — greenhouse film, irrigation pools, factory offcuts and municipal waste that no mechanical recycler will take.

  2. 02

    Shred

    Feedstock is shredded and compacted into a uniform charge, sized so the reactor sees a consistent thermal load rather than a mixed one.

  3. 03

    Pyrolyze

    The charge is sealed into the rotary reactor and driven to between 300 and 500°C by the burner row beneath it. No oxygen goes in with it — and without oxygen, plastic cannot burn. It cracks instead. The long polymer chains break apart into hydrocarbon vapour.

  4. 04

    Condense

    Vapour is drawn off through the condenser bank and cooled back into liquid fuel. Gas that will not condense is captured and stored underground; carbon char is collected from the reactor.

03 — What comes out

Fuel made in Al-Karak, not imported.

Synthetic Diesel

Clean-burning, high-energy fuel alternative

  • Generators
  • Machinery
  • Blending

Heavy Fuel Oil

HFO

Viscous industrial-grade oil for high-heat systems

  • Cement
  • Marine
  • Kilns

Carbon Char

Carbon-rich residue with potential for reuse in low-grade combustion

  • Low-grade combustion
  • Internal use
  • Resale

04 — The Plant

It is built, and it is running.

Al-Hussain Industrial City, Al-Karak, Jordan. A rotary reactor, a burner row, a condenser bank and the tanks the fuel leaves in. Every photograph below is our own plant — no renders, no stock.

The ReMatter facility in Al-Hussain Industrial City, Al-Karak — reactor hall, cooling tower and condenser bank under the shed
The condenser bank, where hydrocarbon vapour is cooled back into liquid fuel
Process piping, separator columns and a level gauge on the product tank
Location
Al-Karak, Jordan
Reactor temperature
300–500°C
Oxygen in chamber
None

05 — Talk to us

Three reasons to pick up the phone.

Supply plastic

You have plastic waste

Farms, factories, municipalities and aggregators. If it is plastic and hard to recycle, it has value here instead of in a landfill.

Talk to us about supply→
Buy fuel

You need fuel

Synthetic diesel and heavy fuel oil for generators, kilns and industrial heat — produced in Al-Karak, not imported.

Request fuel pricing→
Partner

You want to build this out

Investors and development partners backing waste-to-energy infrastructure in Jordan.

Request the deck→