Aduro Clean Technologies (Aduro), a Canadian water-based technology developer, partnered with Chemelot Innovation and Learning Labs (CHILL) to execute an experimentation program at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen, the Netherlands.

Through this project, Aduro aims to optimize its next-generation chemical recycling platform and accelerate its path to commercialization. Aduro will provide financial support to CHILL through a platinum partnership and, in return, receive access to skilled researchers, specialized equipment for testing and analysis of data, and additional services, including access to CHILL partner events and public relations campaigns.

Under their community for development program, CHILL will execute focused experiments around the hydrochemolytic process for plastics upcycling (HPU). Aduro will work on projects that accelerate the scale-up of the hydrochemolytic technology, including the pilot-scale hydrochemolytic continuous flow plastic reactor (R2 Plastic) and work on contaminants in plastic feedstocks being conducted at Western University. Aduro Energy, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Aduro, will own all intellectual property generated from the projects undertaken at CHILL.

Founded in 2012, Aduro Clean Technologies is a developer of patented water-based technologies to recycle plastic waste chemically; convert heavy crude and bitumen into lighter, more valuable oil; and transform renewable oils into higher-value fuels or renewable chemicals. The company's hydrochemolytic technology activates unique properties of water in a chemistry platform that operates at relatively low temperatures and costs.