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Plastics recycling
Innovation and Industry

Our networks

Plastics recycling Our networks Axelera competitiveness cluster The chemical recycling of plastics is an important theme for the Axelera competitiveness cluster, of which IFPEN is a founding member
Plastics recycling
Innovation and Industry

Our strengths

Plastics recycling Our strengths IFPEN applies its long-standing expertise in a variety of specific areas to the chemical recycling of plastics: • chemicals and chemical engineering, • catalysis
Plastics recycling
Innovation and Industry

Our solutions

Plastics recycling Our solutions • Dissolution • Depolymerization • Conversion Back in the 1990s, with the increasingly widespread use of PET as a food packaging material, IFPEN launched its first
Plastics recycling
Innovation and Industry

Plastics recycling

Plastics recycling Overview and challenges Plastics are widely used in a number of applications: packaging, building, vehicles, household appliances, agriculture, etc. The constant increase in their
Climate, environment and circular economy
Innovation and Industry

Climate, environment and circular economy

New R&I themes, stimulated by the energy transition and circular economy markets, are beginning to emerge. The multidisciplinarity of IFPEN’s researchers is used in projects covering fields as diverse
Critical metals and rare earths
Innovation and Industry

Our strengths

Critical metals and rare earths Our strengths Expertise in the field of the synthesis, characterization and implementation of adsorbents The French Chemistry Society’s Industrial Chemistry Division
Critical metals and rare earths
Innovation and Industry

Our networks

Critical metals and rare earths Our networks ANR GENERATE PROJECT While energy transition policies are theoretically and gradually reducing reliance on fossil energy production, they are creating new
Critical metals and rare earths
Innovation and Industry

Our solutions

Critical metals and rare earths Our solutions In 2025, the lithium-ion battery market will account for more than half of the global demand for lithium, compared to almost one third today; and the
Critical metals and rare earths
Innovation and Industry

Critical metals and rare earths

Critical metals and rare earths OVERVIEW AND CHALLENGES Technological innovations developed to support the energy transition make use of critical or strategic metals: these refined minerals and metals
Life cycle analysis (LCA)
Innovation and Industry

Our strengths

Life cycle analysis (LCA) Our strengths A dedicated team of three Life Cycle Analysis engineers/PhD graduates with expertise covering the entire energy and transport value chain, supported by a team