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Carbios begins building demo plant for enzymatic recycling of PET in France
Carbios, a company pioneering new bio-industrial solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers, has announced the launch of the construction of its industrial demonstration plant for the enzymatic recycling of PET plastic.
The demonstration plant is located near Lyon, in France’s Chemistry Valley, the French hub of innovation and industrial production in the chemical, environmental and cleantech sector. Carbios is supported and advised by TechnipFMC for the engineering and construction of this demonstration plant.
Carbios has announced the launch of the construction of its industrial demonstration plant for recycling of PET plastic.
The objective of the plant is to generate technical data that will allow Carbios to define the main parameters for each step of the enzymatic recycling process, on a sufficient scale to be able to plan the operation of future industrial units.
The first phase of the system operations is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2021. This will allow Carbios to establish the complete engineering documents for the process, from waste to monomers, for the construction and implementation of the first industrial unit for a licensee (estimated capacity between 50 and 100 kt per year).
The demonstration plant will validate the technical, environmental, and economic performance of Carbios’ innovative technology. It will also produce batches of monomers for technical and regulatory validation of recycled PET by future licensees.
Martin Stephan, Chief Operating Officer of Carbios, commented, “This demonstration plant will be a showcase site to validate the economic and technical performance of our process and to ensure the training of our future licensees.”
“The demonstration unit allows us to test different waste streams, and to adapt certain steps of our process to the specification of collection systems,” added Antoine Sévenier, Industrial Development Director of Carbios.
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