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WOW! super surprised to see Blest on here. From my understanding I believe these guys went bankrupt a few years back. Maybe they are back from the dead?

This tabletop unit is more of a demonstration unit they don't really intend to sell. It is for educational purposes and really as a demonstrator for their large scale industrial units. This is why when you search for Blest Plastic to oil on Youtube you'll mostly find educational institutions demoing this unit and not much else.

One of the original engineers is apparently an independent contractor now?

He used to post a few Youtube videos of a similar unit to the tabletop version but he seems to have disappeared as well.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHLWZgFThQs




From: https://www.youtube.com/@Plastic2oiltv/about

> "Blest Co., Ltd. went bankrupt in 2017 and started a business as a freelance engineer. Currently, I am setting up and running a consulting company on plastic fuels."

So I guess this is not Blest (which I heard first time.)


Oh, I noticed the domain name being blest.co.jp.

https://blest.co.jp/eng/company/

> INCORPORATED March , 2018

So someone bought it and keeps it running? Interesting.




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