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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: new success with the synthesis of PET oligomers from biorecycled terephthalic acid
13 June 2017 | 6h45Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 13, 2017 (6:45 AM CEST) – CARBIOS (Alternext Paris: ALCRB), pioneer company in the field of bioplasturgy, announces that it has taken...
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CARBIOS: the technological solution for the recycling of opaque PET plastics such as the new milk bottles
23 January 2017 | 8h30Clermont-Ferrand, France, January 23, 2017 – CARBIOS (NYSE Alternext in Paris: ALCRB), an innovative green chemistry company specializing in enzymatic bioprocesses applied to plastic and...
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CARBIOS successfully completes key stage four of the THANAPLAST™ project and receives a new payment from Bpifrance validating the maturity of its technologies
21 December 2016 | 8h30Clermont-Ferrand, France, December 21, 2016 – CARBIOS (NYSE Alternext in Paris: ALCRB), an innovative green chemistry company specializing in enzymatic bioprocesses applied to plastic and...
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CARBIOS: new success with the development of a depolymerization process at 100% of plastic bottles
28 November 2016 | 18h00A technology applicable to the global market of PET based plastic bottles, packaging and films A process addressing a market worth more than 31 billion...
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CARBIOS builds on its technology leadership with the granting of a key patent in China for its enzymatic biodegradation process of PLA
15 November 2016 | 18h00CARBIOS (Alternext Paris: ALCRB), an innovative green chemistry company specializing in enzymatic bioprocesses applied to plastic and textile polymers, today announces that it has been...
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Operational launch of the joint venture CARBIOLICE between Carbios, Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients and BpiFrance (SPI)
1 September 2016 | 18h00CARBIOS and CARBIOLICE sign a licencing agreement that includes an 8 million euro upfront payment and turnover royalties CARBIOS (NYSE Alternext Paris: ALCRB/ Eligible PEA-PME),...