About us

ECORETAN s.r.o. is a Czech company specialized in the development and implementation of technological procedures of chemical recycling of waste polyurethanes.

Polyurethane belongs to top ten world mass produced polymers and its consumption worldwide is more than 10 billion tons annually. The waste related to its usage ends up mostly in dumping areas or waste incineration plants and therefore represents a massive environmental damage.

Our goal is to change this situation and not only create new technologies to chemically recycle polyurethane waste but also to implement them, thus achieving a balance between ecology and economy.

The recycling technology we have developed is able to recycle waste foam polyurethane into a recycled polyol, so called ECORETAN green polyol®, which is applicable back to a new polyurethane system instead of the original polyol produced from a crude oil.

A carbon footprint of the ECORETAN green polyol® in comparison with the one of polyols produced entirely from crude oil is 2.7 times lower. This data was obtained on the basis of the ”Carbon footprint of recycled polyol” study made for us by the LCA Studio s.r.o. company. The subject of this study was determination of the carbon footprint of the product using LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) method in conformity with ISO 14067 (Greenhouse gases – Carbon footprint of products).

Neither a price nor an availability of the ECORETAN green polyol® is dependent on deviations of the crude oil market as much as it is in case of the regular polyol.

Recycling of the polyurethane waste and subsequent utilization of the ECORETAN green polyol® in production have an indisputable ecological contribution, and thus also a contribution to sustainability policy programs.

Utilization of the ECORETAN green polyol® in production results in reduction of material costs.

Within the scope of development we have performed successful tests of utilization of the ECORETAN green polyol® in the building industry.

Since the end of the year 2022 we run our first recycling line which is able to process several tons of polyurethane waste annually.