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- 23 March 2022
Surge into plastic recycling by chemicals and oil groups meets pushback
Industry tests the definition of sustainability as it uses energy-intensive processes to break down waste.
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- 5 February 2022
How ‘super-enzymes’ that eat plastics could curb our waste problem
[…] The most advanced project is run by Carbios, a French biotechnology company. In September 2021 it opened a pilot plant in Clermont-Ferrand, where it will...
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- 17 November 2021
MIT Technology Review
Carbios has been developing enzymatic recycling since the company was founded in 2011. Its process relies on enzymes to chop up the long chains of polymers that make up plastic.
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- 31 October 2021
Enzymatic recycling: Carbios inaugurates industrial demonstration plant
On September 29, 2021, we were invited to attend the opening event of the industrial demonstration plant in Clermont-Ferrand / France. Carbios pursues two goals...
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- 3 May 2021
Plastics Today – Michelin Approves Use of Polyester Tire Cord Recycled from Waste PET Bottles
“Nearly three billion plastic bottles per year could be recycled into technical fibers for use in the company’s tires by applying Carbios’ enzymatic recycling technology...
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- 8 April 2020
Publication of an article in the prestigious scientific journal Nature
We made the cover of Nature!
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Press releases
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Carbios enters joint development agreement with Novozymes to produce its proprietary enzyme for complete recycling of PET-plastics and fibers
30 January 2020 | 6h45The global agreement is an exclusive partnership for scaling up and producing PET-degrading enzymes The JDA leads way toward circular economy Clermont-Ferrand, France, January...
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Carbios Announces Strategic Alliance with the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse (INSA)
17 January 2020 | 6h45Carbios and TBI (Toulouse Biotechnology Institute) set up an enzyme engineering research center of international scale on plastic recycling and biosynthesis. Clermont-Ferrand, January 17th, 2020...
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Carbios receives € 1.4m from ADEME following the success of the first milestone of its CE-PET research project.
3 December 2019 | 6h45Clermont-Ferrand, France, December 3rd, 2019 (06:45 AM CET) – CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a company pioneering new bio-industrial solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of...
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CARBIOS: New patents granted in Europe and Japan
8 October 2019 | 6h45On heels of US patent, the European and Japanese grants significantly enhance the global protection of CARBIOS’ infinite PET plastic waste recycling technology CARBIOS holds...
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2019 Half-Year Results for CARBIOS, the world leader in biorecycling and biodegrading plastics
27 September 2019 | 6h45Highlights include new strategic partnerships with Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe Development agreement between CARBIOLICE, CARBIOS and Novozymes First PET-bottles...
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CARBIOS to present at the XXV Enzyme Engineering Conference in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
16 September 2019 | 6h45“Addressing the problem of plastic waste: development of an enzymatic process for PET recycling” by Alain MARTY, Chief Scientific Officer of CARBIOS Clermont-Ferrand, France,...