CLERMONT–FERRAND – Biotech specialist Carbios has struck a deal with Chinese textile firm, the Zhink Group, to build a bio-recycling plant in China.
Under the terms of the letter of intent, the plant will use Carbios’s disruptive enzymatic depolymerisation technology which enables the efficient and solvent-free recycling of PET plastic and textile waste into virgin-like products with the aim of achieving ‘true circularity’.
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