Truffle Capital founded Carbios to meet the environmental and sustainable development challenges facing manufacturers. Carbios has developed an exceptional plastic biorecycling technology that a leading international consortium wants to make the "2.0" industrial process of plastic recycling. This consortium brought together by Carbios includes L'Oréal, Nestlé, Pepsico, Suntory, Novozyme. Carbios is based in the Biopôle Clermont-Limagne, in Saint-Beauzire in Auvergne.
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- Truffle investment
- € 9M
Management team
Board of Directors
As a former Paris hospital intern in immunology and hematology, Dr Pouletty holds a doctorate in medicine from the University of Paris VI and a master's degree in immunology and virology from the Institut Pasteur. He was a post-doctoral researcher (1986-1988) at Stanford University.
He is the winner of the 1999 American Liver Foundation Award. Doctor Philippe Pouletty is a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
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Chairman
In summary
Carbios is a green chemistry company producing innovative industrial bioprocesses for the biodegradation and biorecycling of plastic and textile polymers.
In particular, Carbios has achieved a world first, with the 100% recycling of a PET bottle (coca cola type) paving the way for a truly circular plastics economy.
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They talk about it
Carbios' major innovation is to use an enzyme, a biological material, that will depolymerize the plastic. 97% of PET can be depolymerized in just 16 hours. We get a zero waste plastic, explains Alain Marty, scientific director of the company located near Clermont-Ferrand.
Carbios can become the world technological leader in plastics recycling, making political and ecological objectives an industrial reality, helping to clean up our planet, and reducing the use of hydrocarbons to make plastics.
KEY STEPS
2011
Creation of the company by Truffle
2013
IPO
2016
Operational start-up of Carbiolice
2017
Creation of a consortium with L'Oréal
2019
Consortium with Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food