Carbios Launches Industrial Demonstration Plant for Its Unique Enzymatic Recycling Technology
29 Septembre 2021 - 05:45PM
Business Wire
- Carbios has successfully launched its industrial
demonstration plant in accordance with its timetable
- First tests were successfully completed, reflecting the
scalability of the process
- Last stage before the commercialization of its
ground-breaking technology, C-ZYME®
Regulatory News:
Carbios (Paris:ALCRB) (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a company
pioneering new enzymatic solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of
plastic and textile polymers, announced the official opening and
launch of an industrial demonstration plant operating with its
enzymatic recycling technology, C-ZYME®, which was installed on the
Cataroux site in Clermont-Ferrand.
“For more than 10 years, we have been creating innovative
solutions to rethink the end of life of plastics and textiles,”
said Jean-Claude Lumaret, Carbios' Chief Executive Officer. “This
industrial demonstration plant fulfils the promises of our
enzymatic recycling process, C-ZYME®. The continuous cycle of
recycling PET waste is one step closer to becoming a reality!"
The demonstration plant marks the culmination of the development
of the C-ZYME® technology. It will allow the validation of the
enzymatic PET recycling process' technical, environmental, and
economic performance, as well as the design of future industrial
units. By the end of 2022, its operation will enable the complete
engineering documents for the process (Process Design Package) to
be drawn up for the building and operation of a 40,000-tonne/year
capacity reference unit as well as future factories to be run under
licensing agreements.
"The demonstration plant includes a 20m3 depolymerization
reactor capable of processing 2 tonnes of PET per cycle, which is
the equivalent of 100,000 bottles. This is a watershed moment,
highlighting how this revolutionary process works on a large
scale," added Mr. Lumaret.
The optimization of the operating parameters as well as the
production of the monomer batches are now carried out by a team of
10 people. An initial hydrolysis has been successfully realized,
confirming the upscaling of the process.
The C-ZYME® recycling process uses an enzyme capable of
depolymerizing PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which is found in
a variety of plastic and textile items. The depolymerized monomers
are purified before being repolymerized into PET of comparable
quality to virgin PET derived from petrochemicals. Unlike
traditional methods, Carbios' breakthrough enables unlimited
recycling of all sorts of PET waste (clear, colored, opaque,
complex plastics, polyester textiles) as well as the production of
100% recycled and 100% recyclable PET goods that maintain their
virgin quality throughout the process.
About Carbios:
Carbios, a green chemistry company, develops biological and
innovative processes representing a major innovation in the end of
life of plastics and textiles. Through its unique approach of
combining enzymes and plastics, Carbios aims to address new
consumer expectations and the challenges of a broader ecological
transition by taking up a major challenge of our time: plastic and
textile pollution.
Established in 2011 by Truffle Capital, the mission of Carbios
is to provide an industrial solution to the recycling of PET
plastics and textiles (the dominant polymer in bottles, trays,
textiles made of polyester). The enzymatic recycling technology
developed by Carbios deconstructs any type of PET plastic waste
into its basic components which can then be reused to produce new
PET plastics of a quality equivalent to virgin ones. This PET
innovation, the first of its kind in the world, was recently
recognized in a scientific paper published in the prestigious
journal Nature. Additionally, Carbios is working hand in hand with
multinational brands — like L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and
Suntory Beverage & Food Europe — to implement its technology,
and to lead the transition toward a truly circular economy.
The Company has also developed an enzymatic biodegradation
technology for PLA (a bio sourced polymer) based single use
plastics. This technology can create a new generation of plastics
that are 100% compostable in domestic conditions, integrating
enzymes at the heart of the plastic product. This disruptive
innovation has been licensed to Carbiolice, a joint venture created
in 2016, which is now Carbios’ subsidiary.
For more information, please visit www.carbios.com/en
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Carbios (ISIN FR0011648716/ALCRB) is eligible for the PEA-PME, a
government program allowing French residents investing in SMEs to
benefit from income tax rebates.
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