CARBIOS has announced the signing 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, France.
The company claims the commercial contracts confirm the demand from global brands for recycled and recyclable PET from enzymatic recycling, aiming to help them meet circularity and quality objectives for their packaging. With the signing of these contracts, CARBIOS says it has achieved its objective to sign its first contracts in the first half of 2025.
Jacques Playe, director of Development and Packaging at 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.”
David Bayard, R&D Packaging Director at L’Occitane en Provence, comments: “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.”
Last summer, CARBIOS and recycling and waste management company FCC Environment UK signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to study the implementation of a UK-based PET biorecycling plant using CARBIOS’ technology. The UK-based plant would process PET waste that is currently not recyclable using conventional recycling technologies such as coloured, multilayered or textile waste.
More recently, the company signed a LOI with Selenis to recycle PET cosmetic and healthcare packaging waste into PETG using enzymatic depolymerization technology. The partners plan to convert PET waste from the European and American cosmetic and healthcare industries into a premium PETG material.
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