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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

News and Trends 7 Jul 2016

Engineered Microorganisms now able to directly produce Bioplastics for 3D-Printing

Carbios made a breakthrough in the production of PLA, a common bioplastic. The lactic acid used as molecular ‘building blocks’ were already bio-sourced, but now the plastic can be really produced from scratch with microorganisms. Bioplastics are one of the ways GreenTech is trying to save the world. Some success stories are Bio-On’s potato plastics […]

July 7, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 30 May 2016

French Biodegradable Plastics get 2 new key US Patents

Carbios has been granted two key US patents: One for a novel plastic-degrading microorganism, and another for the creation of plastics with a customised lifespan – which could help bioplastics break into more industrial applications. A Green Chemistry company from the French region of Auvergne, Carbios was founded in 2011 but already has had some major […]

May 30, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 3 Dec 2015

Bioplastics Breakthrough: French Cleantech Now Able to Infinitely Recycle PETs!

French Carbios have now managed to adapt their enzymatic bioplastics manufacturing process to make Green PET (polyethylene terephthalate) from the petrochemical PET – one of the most common plastics. Whilst various green initiatives push for better regulation of recycling (a prime example being in Berlin!), in reality only around 10% of plastic collected is actually […]

December 3, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 3 Nov 2015

Potato Plastics! Biodegradable Plastics from Potato Waste

An Italian company specialized in the production of environmentally sustainable materials has created its Minverv PHAs. These are ‘green’ biopolymers with the same thermo-mechanical properties of the substances that make up the traditional plastics, but are instead 100% biodegradable. The goal was to create a plastic that does not pollute the environment and Bio-On, company […]

November 3, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

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