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- 2 June 2023
Emmanuel Macron, President of France
“Transforming plastic waste into recycled and recyclable plastic, this is the mission of French company Carbios. Thanks to the ongoing support of the French government,...
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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 and KEM ONE sign a Letter of Intent to implement a PET biorecycling demonstration plant operated by CARBIOS in the French Chemical Valley
28 November 2018 | 6h45Evaluation of KEM ONE’s industrial site at Saint-Fons (France) for the implementation by CARBIOS of an industrial demonstration plant of its breakthrough technology TechnipFMC in...
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Report on CARBIOS’ liquidity contract with Gilbert Dupont
9 July 2018 | 18h00Clermont-Ferrand, France, July 9, 2018 (06:00 PM CEST) – CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), pioneer company in the field of bioplasturgy, reports today about the...
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Acceleration of CARBIOLICE developments and second financing round led by the project partners
6 July 2018 | 6h45A € 3.35 million financing round An innovation driven strategy to produce masterbatches for the manufacture of single-use plastics Commercial launch in 2020 Clermont-Ferrand, France,...
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CARBIOS achieves a major milestone in the optimization of its biorecycling process of PET based plastics
12 April 2018 | 6h45Time of hydrolysis divided by 3: 97% conversion in 24 hours A level of performance reinforcing the competitiveness of this proprietary process Towards an acceleration...
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Carbios confirms its eligibility to the French PEA-PME investment regime
6 April 2018 | 18h00CARBIOS CONFIRMS ITS ELIGIBILITY TO THE FRENCH PEA-PME INVESTMENT REGIME Clermont-Ferrand, France, 06 April 2018 (6:00 PM CEST) – CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), pioneer...
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CARBIOS announces the development of a new process enabling to depolymerize PET polyester fibers from textile waste
12 March 2018 | 6h45Clermont-Ferrand, France, March 12, 2017 (06:45 AM CET) – CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), pioneer company in the field of bioplasturgy, today announces that it...