News and Trends 12 Mar 2018 We Can Now Make Plastics Out of Old Clothes Using Biology Carbios, a French biotech, has developed an environmentally-friendly method to break down the PET plastic fibers in textile waste using enzymes. Carbios has developed a technology which can depolymerize textile waste fibers made of PET plastics into their original monomers. The technology uses enzymes to create biodegradable plastics and recycle existing plastics into their original compounds for […] March 12, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 17 Jan 2018 An Update on What’s New in the French Biotech Industry Here’s a closer look at the French biotech ecosystem in 2017, which remains one the leading industries in Europe along with Germany and the UK. France’s biotech ecosystem is relatively dynamic and well-developed. Young companies harboring exciting technology are encouraged into the industry by support from Bpifrance, i-LAB, and iBionext. Once a company gets off the ground, France is […] January 17, 2018 - 4 minutesmins - By Alex Dale Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 11 Jan 2018 Carbios’ Bioplastics Can Now Be Infinitely Recycled at Scale Scale-up is a major challenge in industrial biotech but Carbios has done it, going large-scale with its recyclable bioplastics technology. Carbios, a young and exciting green chemistry company, aims to find solutions to the environmental and sustainability issues faced by businesses. Since 2012, the company has been leading the THANAPLAST program, which has brought together academic and industrial […] January 11, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 24 Nov 2017 Let’s Clean Up Our Oceans! New Technique Can Find Even the Tiniest Pieces of Plastic Current research suggests that we only remove 1% of the plastic waste in our oceans. Thankfully, researchers in the UK have developed a technique to find the rest! Researchers at the University of Warwick, UK, have developed a new and cheap method to find even the smallest bits of plastic that are floating around in […] November 24, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 27 Oct 2017 French Biotech Gets Together with L’Oréal to Clean up our Streets Carbios and L’Oréal have had enough of the plastics bags and packaging littering our streets and will form a consortium for the bio-recycling of plastic on an industrial scale. Today, you’ll struggle to walk along a street without seeing plastic bottles, bags, and wrappers dropped by the wayside… but thankfully, help is at hand. Carbios, […] October 27, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 27 Jun 2017 Green Biotech Enters Partnership to Advance the Infinite Recycling of Plastics Carbios has teamed up with TechnipFMC in order to move Carbios’ enzymatic recycling process for PET plastics from the laboratory to the pilot scale. French Carbios is looking to combat the limits of current thermo-mechanical recycling processes using an enzyme-based degradation process that paves the way to infinite recycling of PET. The annual production of PET, one […] June 27, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Infographics 21 Jun 2017 Check Out these 42 European SynBio Startups Reimagining the Industry Synthetic biology, or synbio for short, is rapidly infiltrating multiple fields. From bioplastics to food technology and healthcare, these are the startups in Europe that are expanding the frontiers of what synbio can do to improve our lives in many different ways. In the not-so-distant future, synthetic biology could bring us anything from spider silk […] June 21, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Best in Biotech 3 Jan 2017 10 Hot European Biotechs to Observe in 2017 🚀 New year, new list: here are the 10 hottest Biotech companies I will watch closely in 2017 and why. This list is not meant to be comprehensive and is in no particular order. Super-pumped mRNA Therapy BioNTech is Europe’s largest private Biotech with over 500 employees and is one of the three leading mRNA therapy […] January 3, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email