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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: Jean Falgoux appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors
12 April 2016 | 18h00CARBIOS (NYSE Alternext Paris : ALCRB/ Eligible PEA-PME), an innovative green chemistry company specializing in breakthrough technologies dedicated to the recovery of plastic waste, today...
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CARBIOS depolymerizes 100% of PET based plastic waste with its enzymatic recycling process
2 December 2015 | 18h00A unique technology paving the way to infinite recycling of PET At the time of the COP21, the biorecycling of PET by CARBIOS follows a...
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Carbios launches its pilot plant for the production of biodegradable plastics, thus reaching a new milestone
16 September 2015 | 20h40CARBIOS (NYSE Alternext Paris: ALCRB), an innovative green chemistry company specializing in breakthrough technologies dedicated to the recovery of plastic waste and the production of...
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Carbios’ enzyme-based technology for rendering PLA biodegradable at ambient temperatures has confirmed its effectiveness on a pre-industrial scale; potential for new industrial applications for PLA is thus expanded
22 June 2015 | 20h05CARBIOS (NYSE Alternext Paris: ALCRB), an innovative green chemistry company specializing in breakthrough technologies dedicated to the recovery of plastic waste and the production of...
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Carbios strengthens its strategic and historical partnership with TWB (INRA)
20 May 2015 | 19h13CARBIOS (Alternext Paris : ALCRB), an innovative green chemistry company specializing in breakthrough technologies dedicated to the recovery of plastic waste and the production of...
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Professor Alain Marty appointed Chief Science Officer at Carbios
20 April 2015 | 18h40Carbios (Alternext Paris : ALCRB), an innovative green chemistry company specializing in breakthrough technologies dedicated to the recovery of plastic waste and the production of...