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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’ announces successful 14.5 million euros accelerated bookbuilding capital increase
25 June 2019 | 20h00Subscription of Copernicus AM, L’Oréal via its capital-investment fund BOLD Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development, Michelin Ventures and Truffle Capital for a total amount of...
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Carbios announces the launch of a capital increase by accelerated bookbuilding
24 June 2019 | 17h40Subscription commitments from Copernicus AM, L’Oréal via its capital-investment fund BOLD (Business Opportunities for L’Oréal Development), Michelin Venture and Truffle Capital for a total of...
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CARBIOS announces grant of a second major U.S. patent focused on the recycling of complex PET plastic waste
20 June 2019 | 6h45CARBIOS’ recycling technology is the first to enable the enzymatic treatment of all forms of PET plastic waste, including complex plastics and polyester fibers CARBIOS...
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CARBIOS awarded a Solar Impulse “Efficient Solution” label
3 June 2019 | 6h45CARBIOS infinite plastic recycling technology is among the first labelled innovations to join the 1 000 sustainable and competitive solutions sought by the Solar Impulse...
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CARBIOS welcomes new Scientific Advisory Board members
22 May 2019 | 6h45Dr. Uwe T. Bornscheuer of Greifswald University in Germany Dr. Ludwik Leibler of ESPCI Paris in France Clermont-Ferrand, France, May 22, 2019 (06:45 AM...
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CARBIOS: winner of the third edition of “L’Appel des 30!”
10 May 2019 | 6h45CARBIOS nominated for its project of implementation, at KEM ONE’s site in St-Fons (France), of an industrial demonstration plant for the enzymatic recycling of PET...