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Today, we are announcing the next step of our global business transformation and have informed our employees in the European Union and Norway that we intend to reorganize our footprint in the region.

• Right now, many plastic products, especially contaminated and multilayer plastics, cannot be traditionally recycled at scale.
• Instead, these plastics are typically incinerated or sent to landfills.
• More plastic can be recycled using chemical recycling, helping Europe reduce this waste.

Esso Nederland BV plans to build a pilot plant at its Rotterdam Manufacturing Complex to test a breakthrough technology that could significantly reduce CO₂ emissions from key industries. The pilot plant aims to obtain data on performance and operability of the carbonate fuel cell (CFC) technology, jointly developed with FuelCell Energy. Additionally, the pilot aims to address potential technical issues that may occur in a commercial environment and better understand the costs of installing and operating a CFC plant for carbon capture.