Aditya Birla Chemicals partners ORSL for waste recycling solutions

Aditya Birla Chemicals (Thailand) Ltd.’s Advanced Materials business and Organic Recycling Systems Ltd. (ORSL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a sustainable recycling value chain for composite waste, aiming to recover valuable materials and promote a circular economy.

Composite materials, made using reinforcing fibres and epoxy resins, are widely used in wind energy, transportation, construction, aerospace and industrial manufacturing because of their strength, durability and lightweight properties. However, recycling conventional thermoset composites remains a challenge as their permanently crosslinked resin structures make it difficult to separate and recover the constituent materials for reuse.

Aditya Birla’s Recyclamine epoxy system is designed to address this challenge by enabling the separation and recovery of raw materials during the recycling process, creating opportunities for their potential reuse.

ORSL held on social media, “Becoming a recycling partner of Aditya Birla Advanced Materials is a proud milestone for ORSL and reinforces our commitment to technology-driven circularity and industrial sustainability.”

The MoU was signed during Windergy India-2026 by Rajesh Balakrishnan, CEO, Advanced Materials-Aditya Birla Chemicals Materials, and Prof. (Dr) Manju D Tanwar, Chief Scientist and Head of R&D, ORSL.

Under the partnership, ORSL will focus on integrating and optimising recycling processes for a range of composite waste streams. These will include conventional epoxy-based materials as well as composites made using Aditya Birla’s Recyclamine technology. The collaboration aims to establish a closed-loop system that can recover resources from composite waste and return them to productive use.

“Circularity starts with designing composites for their next life. With Recyclamine and our collaboration with ORSL, we are developing scalable recycling solutions that turn composite waste into valuable resources and help close the loop,” said Rajesh Balakrishnan, Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Materials, Aditya Birla Group.

Dr Manju Tanwar, Chief Scientist and Head of Research and Development at ORSL, said commercially viable and scalable technologies would be essential to closing the loop on composite materials.

“Together, Recyclamine technology and our waste-repurposing expertise are creating new pathways to recover, reuse and unlock value from composite waste,” Tanwar said.

The partnership seeks to combine recyclable epoxy technology with waste-processing expertise to improve material recovery and develop practical solutions for managing composite waste. By enabling the recovery and potential reuse of valuable components, the initiative aims to support more sustainable material use across industries that depend on composite products.