Carbios gets €1.4m from ADEME after milestone in PET recycling project
03/12/2019
Carbios and its academic partner TWB are developing “new enzymes whose activity, thermostability and adsorption on the polymer will be improved to ensure the best possible productivity of the depolymerization stage and fully adapt the process of enzymatic recycling to PET polyester fibre,” according to Carbios.
As part of this project, Carbios is also exploring pre-treatment stages of plastic and textiles waste, depolymerization and monomer purification. This first step, said the company, made it possible to demonstrate the circularity of the process, with the production of the first PET bottles from Carbios' enzymatic recycling technology.
By piloting the enzymatic recycling process carried out on plastic PET waste, Carbios has been able to establish the specifications of the engineering works of the industrial demonstrator. Construction on this will begin in early 2020.
“We are eager to translate these developments into our future demonstration plant and make this innovation an industrial reality,” said Jean-Claude Lumaret, CEO of Carbios.
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