Carbios Confirms Longlaville Plant Plans While Revising Project Schedule

Carbios reaffirms its ambition to pursue the Longlaville plant construction project by rescheduling the timeline with a three-month adjustment.

In 2025, Carbios signed pre-commercialization contracts covering close to 50% of the production capacity of the future industrial site in Longlaville and is working to secure commitments to reach 70% in the near term. These multiple commercial agreements concluded in the cosmetics, beverage, and tire textile filament industries, confirm the strong market traction for biorecycled PET produced using the technology designed and developed by Carbios.

The pre-commercialization progress has been instrumental in driving forward the structuring of the financing needed to resume the construction project of the first PET biorecycling plant in France and to cover the main portion required to finance the plant project. It is expected that the plant will be financially independent from Carbios.

The financing of this industrial project is based on private financing (debt and equity) and on confirmed public aid amounting to 42.5 million euros.

A small portion of the financing still needs to be secured before the project can move forward. Carbios aims to achieve this by the end of the first quarter of 2026. If this is the case, the plant should be commissioned during the first half of 2028.

Carbios remains fully committed to commercializing licenses for its technology, with an initial strategic partnership agreement signed on 2 December 2025 with Wankai New Materials to deploy its PET biorecycling technology in Asia. In addition, the Company aims to commercialize new licenses in Europe, as well as in North and South America.

Carbios previously postponed construction of its Longlaville PET bio-recycling plant to manage cash flow and align with financing timelines in 2024.