Carbios signs a €7 million strategic collaboration with INRA

In France, Carbios, a green chemistry company that specializes in innovative biological and industrial processes for recovering plastic waste and is developing competitive production processes for biosourced plastics and biopolymers, today announced the signature of a pivotal €7-million collaboration with the French National Institute for Agricultural Research at the Toulouse White Biotechnology research center. The project is part of the THANAPLAST private-public consortium on plastics lead by Carbios  and that brings together CARBIOS’ different corporate and academic partners. The goal is to develop effective biobased industrial processes that add value to plastic waste and enable the production of economically competitive biosourced polymers.