Carbios, a pioneer in the development of enzymatic recycling has announced a number of new additions to its management staff.
The new hires are tasked with launching and building out the market commercialisation of the enzymatic technologies developed by Carbios that enable PET to be broken down back into its constituent monomers and subsequently repolymerised into virgin-quality PET material.
Carbios has appointed Stéphane Ferreira as the Director of Operations, who is in charge of the business’ global development and who will manage the relationship with the various industrial and commercial partners. His team has now also been expanded by the addition of two new members: Frédéric Alarcon, who joined Carbios on 5 September as the Licencing manager will focus on building and deploying the process licensing model that is at the heart of Carbios’ business model; and Arnaud Tillon, the new Group Marketing Director, who joined the firm on 12 September.
Tillon is responsible for defining and deploying the company's marketing strategy, in order to achieve its marketing objectives. He is also in charge of reinforcing the organisation’s customer culture.
In further news, Martin Stephan is stepping down from his role as Deputy CEO on 15 October, 2022, after nearly six years at Carbios.
Stephane Ferreira has over 20 years of experience in the specialty chemicals sector. Prior to joining Carbios, he was the Vice-President of Transformation for Arkema’s Coatings’ business unit. He has successfully led major transformations thanks to his leadership and customer focus, developing the culture, processes and strategic partnerships required for business growth.
New Licensing Manager Frédéric Alarcon has held various managing positions in R&D, technology, business development, manufacturing and customer technical support at BP Chemicals, Ineos and more recently, Sibur.
Arnaud Tillon, the newly appointed Group Marketing Director, has served in various marketing and communication roles at companies including and Sales Direction at Nestlé Waters, the Publicis Group and IKKS, the French fashion group, where he was in charge of the international brand expansion.
Carbios is currently running a demonstration plant for its PET bio-recycling technology in Clermont-Ferrand. The company also announced a partnership in February of the year with Thai PET giant Indorama. The companies aim to build and operate in France the world’s first industrial-scale enzymatic PET bio-recycling plant, with a processing capacity of some 50.000 tons of post-consumer PET waste per year, equivalent to 2 billion PET bottles or 2.5 billion PET trays.
This will help meet the growing demand from consumers and large consumer goods companies including Carbios’ partners and shareholders - L’Oréal, Michelin, L’Occitane, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, Suntory Beverage & Food Europe - for more sustainable packaging.