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Recovering phosphorus from municipal sewage sludge ash.

The first-of-a-kind phosphate recycling facility in Moerdijk, the Netherlands.

S&S Feniks, a joint venture between SusPhos BV, a pioneering circular chemistry company, and NV Slibverwerking Noord-Brabant, Europe's largest municipal sewage sludge mono-incinerator, is building a first-of-its-kind facility in Moerdijk, the Netherlands. The facility will recover phosphorus from municipal sewage sludge ash and transform it into valuable, market-ready products.

TechnologyHow the patented wet-chemical process closes the phosphate loop.

FactoryThe Phoenix facility, its two products, and the numbers behind it.

PartnersSNB and SusPhos — the joint venture behind S&S Feniks.

Project supportThe public funding that makes a first-of-a-kind plant possible.

Why it matters

The Feniks plant will use Sewage Sludge Ash (SSA), a waste stream generated by the SNB incinerator, as feedstock to produce two commercially viable and sustainable products: Phoenix Bond®, a cement replacer, and Phoenix SSPlus®, a phosphate fertilizer.

This zero-waste process addresses several strategic priorities for the EU:

Reducing CO₂ emissions by replacing cement derived from virgin limestone with Phoenix Bond®
Recycling phosphorus from SSA, rather than merely recovering it
Reducing Europe's dependence on imports of critical raw materials from third countries
Strengthening European economic resilience by creating local production capacity for sustainable phosphate fertilizer through Phoenix SSPlus®, thereby reducing exposure to market price fluctuations