Opening ceremony at Syklon's Hyvinkää facility – Products perhaps for Amazon's consumer electronics

Finnish circular economy company Syklo will officially open its Hyvinkää circular economy hub today (September 9, 2026), which combines a plastic recycling plant and an industrial-scale biocomposite factory.

The total investment is 70–80 million euros. The facility will create one hundred new jobs.

“Our ultimate mission is to build a more sustainable world where materials are recycled. Now is the perfect time to be creating a circular economy market, as the newly approved EU Circular Economy Regulation for Vehicles and the PPWR will further strengthen the demand for recycled materials,” says Syklo’s CEO. Teemu Koskela.

Closed water circulation in both plants

Plastic recycling plant process utilizes a closed water cycle. The sorting stage uses patented technology from our Scottish partner Impact Recycling, which also separates black plastics based on density differences.

A plastic recycling plant can also process hard plastics such as polyethylene and polypropylene. These are typically used to make things like buckets, sledges, and storage boxes.

The cycle has begun. cooperation on separate collection of hard plastics with eight municipal waste companies (including HSY, Napapiirin Residuum, Rosk'n Roll and Pirkanmaan Jätehuolto).

The biocomposite plant, in turn, utilizes Syklo's own patented wet-laid technology, which preserves the length of the cellulose fibers and thus enhances the strength of the material. The water in the biocomposite plant also circulates in a closed manner.

Synergies between factories

The final product of the plastic recycling plant, Sykloplast recycled plastic granulate, is sold directly to customer companies in the plastics industry.

The synergy between the plastic recycling plant and the biocomposite plant is a key part of the concept: the Sykloplast recycled plastic granulate produced during plastic recycling serves directly as a raw material in the adjacent biocomposite plant, which cuts transportation costs.

The Cyclocomp biocomposite can be used as a replacement for glass fiber, talc and engineering plastics in the packaging, electronics and transportation industries, among others. The recycled raw material reduces the carbon footprint of reinforced plastics.

The final product capacity of the biocomposite plant in the first phase will be 8,000 tons per year.

Global interest

Syklo's products may in the future be used as raw materials for Amazon's consumer electronics.

Syklo has been selected from hundreds of applicants for the Amazon Devices Climate Tech Accelerator program. The selection will see the company's materials solution evaluated as part of Amazon's devices and their manufacturing.

“In practice, this means that our materials are tested on Amazon’s equipment using the same criteria as materials used in production. The evaluation looks at functionality in the process, mechanical performance and reliability of delivery on an industrial scale. It’s great to be able to show that our solutions work on the world’s toughest scale,” says Syklo’s business director Markku Nikkilä.

Lower emissions

With an annual processing capacity of 50,000 tons, Syklo's plastic recycling plant is the largest in Finland.

The company itself estimates that the plastic recycling plant will increase Finland's plastic recycling capacity by as much as 50 percent and reduce Finland's calculated greenhouse gas emissions by over 100,000 tons (CO₂eq) annually.

Text: Uusiuutisten editorial team

Photo: Syklo. Syklo's factories in Hyvinkää will operate in three shifts. Forty new jobs will open in the autumn.