Futerro

“At Futerro, we believe that biobased chemicals and plastics are essential pillars for accelerating the transition away from fossil carbon and for transforming today’s fossil-based economy into tomorrow’s circular economy”

Futerro, with more than 30 years of expertise, is fully committed to the environmental transition toward a true bioeconomy and circular economy. Our products begin their life in the land: through photosynthesis, plants capture atmospheric CO₂ and convert it into sugars. Futerro transforms these sugars into lactic acid and lactide, two platform molecules, and then into Futeon™ PLA, a biobased, circular polymer with lower greenhouse gas emissions that traditional fossil-based plastics, offering industries a reliable and scalable alternative for many applications (packaging, films, coatings, fibers, non-woven applications, and many more). Thanks to decades of innovation, Futerro has complete mastery of the entire PLA value chain, including the development of mechanical and proprietary chemical recycling technologies to enables its complete circularity.-based, circular polymer with lower greenhouse-gas emissions 

But transitioning to a fully renewable carbon economy requires collective action. Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) allows us to share knowledge and expertise with other involved actors 

Company profile

Futerro is a leading Belgian company in the lactic acid, lactide and polylactic acid (PLA) sector, a bio-based, industrially compostable and recyclable plastic capable of replacing traditional ones in our everyday life. A pioneer in research since 1992, the company is today’s second largest PLA producer with 100 ktpa capacity located in Asia. Futerro now plans to set up a new fully integrated biorefinery in France by 2029. 

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