CARBIOS announces the expansion of its licensing offering to the textile market following the successful completion of production trial batches at its Clermont-Ferrand demonstration plant.
Since 2025, the Company has been advancing the extension of its enzymatic biorecycling process to the treatment of textile waste rich in PET polyester fibers, a material whose global consumption in textile applications is estimated at approximately 67 million tonnes per year2, representing nearly twice the size of the PET packaging market. The results achieved from the processing of complex post-consumer textile waste under conditions representative of industrial-scale operations mark a significant milestone toward the commercialization of licenses dedicated to the global market for textiles containing PET polyester fibers.
The performance achieved confirms the robustness of Carbios’ enzymatic depolymerization process, delivering over 95% conversion within 24 hours on complex textile waste streams. The process achieves yields that enable the production of virgin-quality monomers equivalent to those obtained from packaging waste. The consistent reproducibility of these results demonstrates both the technological maturity of the process and the versatility of Carbios’ solution.
