Carbios appoints Erik Orsenna to its Board of Directors

– FRANCE, Clermont-Ferrand –  Carbios today announced the appointment of Erik Orsenna to its Board of Directors. Carbios, a green chemistry company that specializes in the development of innovative industrial bioprocesses, offers novel, economically competitive approaches to recycling plastic waste and producing biopolymers.

Following the announcement of key collaborations (notably with the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, INRA, and the French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS), Carbios is proud to welcome such an eminent figure to its Board of Directors. Erik Orsenna’s experience as an economist, writer, and essayist gives him the authority to express his views on the major economic and environmental challenges that we are now facing and make him an obvious choice to guide Carbios forwards.

Erik Orsenna commented, “Raw materials are gifts given to us by the Earth” in his book “Voyage aux pays du Coton: Petit précis de mondialisation [Journey to the Lands of Cotton: A Brief Manual of Globalization]. This concept is perfectly in tune with the Carbios approach. Following his appointment, Erik Orsenna stated that “I am delighted to be joining Carbios – a company that develops innovative biological solutions to the evermore worrisome economic and environmental problem of plastic waste”.

Carbios CEO Jean-Claude Lumaret said “Carbios has always joined forces with the best in the business to meet the major challenge facing us: although the volume of plastic waste is increasing all the time, a mere 20% is currently recycled in France! The key issue is how we can turn this waste into useful, recyclable or degradable materials”. After thanking Erik Orsenna for his decision to join Carbios and support the company’s efforts as a board member, Jean-Claude Lumaret concluded by saying “If we look at the life cycle of polymers in a new way, we can envisage turning plastic waste into a new, value-adding raw material”.

About Carbios

Carbios is a young innovative green chemistry company, whose mission is to find biological solutions to the environmental and sustainable development issues faced by industrial businesses. Carbios has acquired the rights to exploit research performed over several years by the various public- and private-sector laboratories and has used them as a foundation for the development of innovative industrial bioprocesses for optimizing the technical, economic and environmental performance of polymers (including thermoplastic materials and synthetic or food-based fibers) by leveraging the unique properties of biological catalysts (enzymes). The company has initially chosen to focus its work on a strategic application sector: plastics. Carbios’s growth strategy is based on a clear business model for industrial value creation that targets attractive markets, develops innovative, competitive bioprocesses, and licenses them to major industrial stakeholders for commercialization. Carbios was founded in 2011 with financial support from the leading European venture capital firm Truffle Capital via the latter’s Holding Incubatrice Série I Chimie Verte fund.

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