Carbios announces that it has been granted the building permit and operating authorization for the world’s first polyethylene terephthalate (PET) biorecycling plant, allowing construction to start.
French chemicals and materials company Arkema is participating in a Spanish consortium to explore and advance the recyclability of post-consumer polyester resin (PET from bottles and other items) in order to regain monomers for use in more sustainable powder coatings.
Koch Technology Solutions, the licensing arm of Koch Engineered Solutions, is partnering Ioniqa Technologies, a Dutch clean-tech spinoff from the Eindhoven University of Technology, to scale up and commercialize the latter’s advanced PET recycling process.
Canadian clean technology company Loop Industries and French partner Suez have secured exclusive rights until June 2022 to buy a parcel of land in Port-Jerome-sur-Seine in northern France to build their first chemical recycling plant for PET.
