CARBIOS Announces That It Has Received € 1.4M From ADEME After Successfully Validating The First Stage Of The CE-PET Research Project

CARBIOS, a pioneer in the development of bioindustrial solutions dedicated to the life cycle of plastic and textile polymers, announces that it has successfully validated the first key step of the CE-PET project and having received in this respect in 2019 a total amount of 1.4 million euros from the Future Investment Program (PIA) operated by ADEME (Agence de l 'Environment and Energy Management).

As a reminder, the CE-PET project, of which Carbios is the leader, aims to accelerate the ramp-up of the Company's industrial and commercial project in the field of biorecycling of plastic waste and fibers into PET. To this end, Carbios and its academic partner TWB are working on the development of new enzymes whose activity, thermostability and adsorption on the polymer will be improved so as to ensure the best possible productivity of the depolymerization stage and to fully adapt the enzymatic recycling process using polyester fibers in PET. As part of this project, Carbios is also working to optimize the pilot stages of waste treatment (plastics and textiles), depolymerization and purification of monomers at the pilot stage.

In accordance with the provisional schedule, all of the deliverables for the first key stage have been obtained. The piloting of the enzymatic recycling process carried out on plastic PET waste made it possible to establish the specifications for the engineering work of the industrial demonstrator whose construction should start in early 2020. In addition, the development of the process on high-grade textile waste in PET has demonstrated depolymerization levels equivalent to those obtained on plastic waste.

Jean-Claude Lumaret, General Manager of Carbios comments : “ This milestone confirms the relevance and the effectiveness of our collaborative approach with TWB and INSA Toulouse (TBI Laboratory). We are impatient to transpose these developments into our future demonstrator and to make this innovation an industrial reality. "