#Recycling / Circular Economy

2025-05-29

CARBIOS signs its first biorecycled PET sales contracts with two global cosmetics leaders

CARBIOS has signed two multi-year commercial contracts for biorecycled PET from its Longlaville plant, with L'ORÉAL and L'Occitane en Provence, and has moved forward with the execution of this future plant’s strategy. These initial commercial contracts confirm market demand for high-quality, recycled and recyclable PET from enzymatic recycling.

CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles, announces the signature of its first multi-year offtake contracts with L'ORÉAL and L'Occitane en Provence for biorecycled r-PET from its future commercial plant in Longlaville.

These commercial contracts confirm the demand from global leading brands for recycled and recyclable PET from enzymatic recycling, which enables them to meet both their circularity and quality objectives for their packaging.

With the signing of these contracts, CARBIOS has moved forward in the execution of its strategy, thereby achieving its objective to sign its first contracts in the first half of 2025 as announced.

"The signing of these two initial commercial contracts with L'ORÉAL and L'Occitane en Provence, two demanding leaders, marks a key milestone for CARBIOS, validating the brands' demand and confirming the existence of an established market for r-PET derived from enzymatic recycling. Today, we have strong momentum to achieve our sales and supply targets, which makes us confident in signing further contracts for our future Longlaville site soon. Our commitment to the success of our future plant is stronger than ever", states Vincent Kamel, CEO, CARBIOS.

Jacques Playe, Director of Development and Packaging, L’ORÉAL, says: "This contract with CARBIOS underlines our commitment to working with innovative players in PET recycling to create a circular economy. We congratulate CARBIOS on this advancement towards industrial scale for their enzymatic recycling solution, which represents a key milestone for the packaging industry."

And David Bayard, R&D Packaging Director, L'Occitane en Provence, says: "The partnership we have established with CARBIOS marks a decisive step for L'Occitane en Provence in our commitment to greater circularity in our packaging. It is testament to the continuation and acceleration of our commitment to reducing our environmental impact. Today, alongside CARBIOS, we are bringing a shared desire to life to build a high-performance European industry to promote the transition to a circular economy for plastics."

CARBIOS and Wankai sign strategic PET biorecycling pact

CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB) and Wankai New Materials (“Wankai”), a listed subsidiary of Zhink Group, the 3rd largest PET producer in China and 4th worldwide, announce the signing of the definitive agreement establishing a strategic partnership for the industrial rollout of CARBIOS’s PET biorecycling technology in Asia. The first milestone will be the construction of a PET biorecycling plant in China.

CARBIOS presents its 2025 half-year results and confirms its objective to build a PET biorecycling plant, with a revised timeline

CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies aimed at reinventing the lifecycle of plastics and textiles, today announces its 2025 half-year results and confirms its objective to build a PET biorecycling plant in Longlaville, with a revised timeline.

CARBIOS enters the r-PET market for tire textile filaments

CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB) announces the signing of a multi-year commercial agreement with Indorama Ventures, the global leader in PET production. This agreement covers the supply of biorecycled monomers from its Longlaville plant, which will be transformed into r-PET filaments by Indorama Ventures and then integrated by Michelin into the manufacturing of its tires.

How innovations drive BASF’s success

“Innovation has always been part of BASF’s DNA. Especially in these volatile times, it is crucial to leverage our innovative strength to develop competitive solutions that differentiate us as a company in our markets and give us a competitive edge,” said Dr. Stephan Kothrade, Member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF and Chief Technology Officer, at the company’s Research Press Briefing held today. To achieve this, BASF implemented its “Winning Ways” strategy about a year ago with the clear goal of becoming the preferred chemical company to enable its customers’ green transformation.

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