Aditya Birla Chemicals and ORSL Sign MoU to Build a Recycling Chain for Composites
The Advanced Materials business of Aditya Birla Chemicals (Thailand) Limited and Organic Recycling Systems Limited (ORSL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a recycling value chain for composite materials.
Composites are light, strong and durable, and are used in wind energy, transportation, construction, aerospace and industrial manufacturing. They are also hard to recycle: conventional thermoset composites have a permanently crosslinked resin that cannot be easily broken down, so the raw materials are difficult to recover.
Aditya Birla's Recyclamine epoxy system is designed so that the raw materials can be separated and recovered during recycling. Under the MoU, ORSL will lead the work to integrate and optimise recycling processes for a broad range of composite waste — both conventional epoxy-based materials and composites made with Recyclamine.
"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.
Manju Tanwar, Chief Scientist and Head of R&D, ORSL, said: "Closing the loop on composites requires solutions that are both scalable and commercially viable."
What it means for buyers and suppliers
This is an MoU, so plants and volumes are still to come. For epoxy resin and hardener buyers in wind blades, automotive and construction, it is a sign that customers will increasingly ask whether a resin system can be recycled at end of life — worth raising with your resin supplier now.
Source: Indian Chemical News (13 October 2026). Photo (representative): wind turbine blades, a major use of epoxy composites. KenWalker, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.