Danone is a multinational food and beverage company headquartered in Paris, France. It operates across fresh dairy and plant-based products, bottled water, and specialized nutrition, including early life and medical nutrition. The company develops and manufactures products based on milk and plant proteins, probiotics, and other nutritional ingredients, leveraging large-scale fermentation, formulation, and aseptic processing across global production sites.
For the chemical and biotech community, Danone’s activities span microbiology and culture development, enzyme and fermentation science, ingredient processing, and product stability and texture engineering. Its R&D also covers packaging materials and process optimization, with efforts aimed at reducing material use, improving recyclability, and enhancing energy and water efficiency. Danone collaborates with academic and industrial partners on biomanufacturing and sustainable materials and operates under stringent food safety, quality, and regulatory standards, particularly in specialized and medical nutrition.
chemXplore tracks 2 projects involving Danone, of which one is active.
Danone's role on them: Owner and Offtaker.
1 expansion.
The Biotech Open Platform will develop precision fermentation for bio-based materials, with a €16M investment. Located in Clermont-Ferrand, it aims to scale up lab-tested innovations by 2025.
By March 2026, a new production line and biomass boiler will be added in Steenvoorde, France, to produce 20M liters of nutritional supplements, reducing the site's carbon footprint by 70%.
The partnership will supply 30,000 metric tonnes of PET waste annually to Eastman's new molecular recycling facility in France, enhancing circularity and reducing environmental impact.
Eastman has secured over 80% of the feedstock for its French molecular recycling facility, partnering with Citeo, Paprec, and Interzero. The facility will recycle 200,000 metric tonnes annually by 2026.
The facility will recycle 160,000 metric tonnes of plastic waste annually, create 350 jobs, and reduce carbon emissions by up to 80%. Operational by 2025, it supports EU sustainability goals.
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