CARBIOS wins "So French So Innovative" award at InnoEX 2024, Hong Kong, recognizing French innovation in Asia Pacific - Seite 2

Stéphane FERREIRA, Chief Biorecycling Business Officer, CARBIOS : "As Asia is a key market for CARBIOS due to the concentration of approximately 80% of the world's PET production, mainly in China, we recognize the strategic importance of establishing a strong presence in this region. CARBIOS is ready to seize a significant opportunity, supported by our expert teams on the ground who are dedicated to establishing CARBIOS in the market and implementing sustainable solutions."

PET biorecycling technology

CARBIOS is actively promoting its revolutionary technology for the enzymatic depolymerization of PET, the world's second most widely used plastic. Many industries are interested in CARBIOS' technology, with PET producers and chemical companies being natural potential customers for a technology that enables true PET circularity with alternative raw materials to petro-sourced monomers, and is fully compatible with existing polymerization plants. By giving value to all possible sources of PET waste, including complex plastic packaging and textile waste, CARBIOS is also naturally targeting waste management companies, to whom it offers profitable new outlets for waste that is currently little or poorly recycled. CARBIOS will provide future licensees with methodological support for sourcing local feedstock.

CARBIOS' technology also offers a solution for brands to meet growing regulatory requirements and their own ambitious sustainability targets for the use of r-PET in their products and packaging. CARBIOS is supported by prestigious brands in the cosmetics, food and apparel industries, with a view to improving the recyclability and circularity of their products. CARBIOS founded a packaging consortium with L'Oréal and joined by Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe. On, Patagonia, PUMA, PVH Corp. and Salomon collaborate with CARBIOS in a textile consortium.

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About CARBIOS:

CARBIOS is a biotech company developing and industrializing biological solutions to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles.  Inspired by nature, CARBIOS develops enzyme-based processes to break down plastic with a mission to avoid plastic and textile pollution, and accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Its two disruptive technologies for the biorecycling of PET and the biodegradation of PLA are reaching industrial and commercial scale.  Its biorecycling demonstration plant has been operational since 2021 and a first industrial plant, in partnership with Indorama Ventures, is currently under construction.  CARBIOS, founded in 2011 by Truffle Capital, has received scientific recognition, notably with the cover of Nature, and is supported by prestigious brands in the cosmetics, Food & Beverage and apparel industries to enhance their products’ recyclability and circularity. Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe are members of a packaging consortium founded by CARBIOS and L’Oréal. On, Patagonia, PUMA, PVH Corp. and Salomon collaborate with CARBIOS in a textile consortium.