PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCT), today, announced that it has signed a €40 million grant agreement from the Innovation Fund with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) to fund its ‘ASTRA PP' project in the NextGen District at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges. Yesterday, CINEA announced that a total of 54 projects selected under the Innovation Fund 2024 Call for Net-Zero Technologies have signed their grant agreements. In total, the projects will receive €2.7 billion of funding.

As part of Project ‘ASTRA PP,' PureCycle will install a polypropylene (PP) dissolution recycling facility in the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, in Belgium designed for an annual production capacity of 59,000 tonnes (130 million lbs.) of PureFive® resin. The project name, ‘ASTRA PP', pays homage to PureCycle's facility site in the NextGen District and stands for Advanced Solvent-based Technology for Recycling in Antwerp for Polypropylene.

The project will contribute to the decarbonization and circularity objectives of the European Green Deal, the Circular Economy Action Plan and the Clean Industrial Deal by providing circular alternatives to conventional fossil-raw-materials for PP production. When completed, the project will provide PureCycle's customers with solutions for complying with European Union (EU) regulations, such as the recycled content targets in the Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation (ELVR).