3:25 min Facts & Figures, Biobased Material
Report

CARBIOS presents its 2025 half-year results and confirms its objective to build a PET biorecycling plant, with a revised timeline

CARBIOS has reduced its operating expenses and has a strong cash position of €72 million as of June 30, 2025, providing a cash horizon of more than 12 months. The Longlaville plant construction project is now supported by: Major progress with public financers ADEME ...
1:50 min Biobased Material
PEF

Avantium, LVMH and Tereos form strategic alliance to scale releaf® production across Europe

Avantium announces that it has signed Memoranda of Understanding with Tereos, a ...
1:50 min Biobased Material
PET alternative

Kobe University: Biodegradable PET alternative bioproduced at unprecedented levels

The PET-alternative PDCA is biodegradable and has superior physical properties. A ...
1:50 min Biobased Material, FOUR:25
PET alternative

Kobe University: Biodegradable PET alternative bioproduced at unprecedented levels

The PET-alternative PDCA is biodegradable and has superior physical properties. A ...
1:26 min Biobased Material
PEF

Avantium successfully starts up first part of its FDCA Flagship Plant

Avantium N.V. is pleased to announce the successful start-up of the sugar ...
1:32 min Biobased Material, THREE:25
Agreement

CARBIOS enters the rPET market for tire textile filaments

CARBIOS has signed a multi-year commercial agreement with Indorama Ventures, the world leader in polyester production. CARBIOS will supply recycled monomers that will be transformed into filaments by Indorama Ventures, intended for use in tire reinforcement for Michelin. This new ...
1:32 min Biobased Material
Agreement

CARBIOS enters the rPET market for tire textile filaments

CARBIOS has signed a multi-year commercial agreement with Indorama Ventures, the world leader in polyester production. CARBIOS will supply recycled monomers that will be transformed into filaments by Indorama Ventures, intended for use in tire reinforcement for Michelin. This new ...
1:21 min Biobased Material

European Bioplastics relocates to Brussels and welcomes New Secretary General

European Bioplastics (EUBP), the association representing the interests of the bioplastics industry in Europe, has officially relocated its main operations to Brussels. The move reinforces the organisation’s commitment to advocacy and engagement with EU institutions, as well as ...
0:56 min Biobased Material
Implementation

Implementation of Japan’s “Positive List” Confirms FDCA Approval for Food-Contact Use

Avantium is pleased to share that Japan has fully implemented its Positive List system for food contact plastics as of 1 June 2025. This list, part of the Food Sanitation Law, includes FDCA (2,5-furandicarboxylic acid) as an approved monomer.
1:13 min Biobased Material
Recognition

RecyClass validates Avantium’s PET/PEF bottle as fully recyclable in PET stream

Avantium announces that its innovative PET/PEF multilayer bottle has been recognized as fully compatible with the PET recycling stream following an evaluation by RecyClass, the European non-profit initiative dedicated to advancing plastics circularity.