Cleantech startup Dioxycle announced that it has signed a multi-year offtake partnership with global beauty company L’Oréal to transform captured carbon emissions into sustainable packaging materials.
Founded in 2021, French-American Dioxycle specializes in technology that uses a low-temperature electrolyzer to produce sustainable ethylene from recycled carbon emissions, water, and renewable electricity.
Ethylene is the world’s most widely consumed organic chemical and is integral to industries like textiles, plastics, construction, and furniture. The conventional conversion process uses fossil fuels and is responsible for substantial carbon emissions. According to Dioxcycle, its approach delivers the most cost-efficient ethylene and commodity chemical production process, shifting away from fossil fuels while lowering the industrial carbon footprint.
Dr. Sarah Lamaison, CEO and Co-Founder of Dioxyce, said:
“By partnering with a global beauty group that demands the highest standards of excellence, we’re proving that sustainability and performance can go hand in hand. L’ORÉAL’s leadership in adopting scalable climate solutions sets a powerful precedent and brings us closer to a circular carbon-based chemical industry.”
According to L’Oréal, the new partnership will strengthen its leadership in sustainable material innovation through the introduction of polyethylene made via carbon electrolysis into its packaging portfolio.
L’Oréal added that the partnership will support its efforts to advance a circular carbon-based chemical industry, helping the company reduce Scope 3 emissions while maintaining high-performance packaging for its products. The company’s “L’Oréal for the Future” sustainability program includes several 2030 packaging goals, including targets to reduce the use of virgin plastic for product packaging by 50%, and to source 50% of materials from either recycled or biobased sources.
Jacques Playe, SVP Global Development Packaging, L’Oréal Group said:
“As a world leader in beauty, L’Oréal operationalizes future-forward technologies. The conversion of carbon emissions into innovative materials unlocks unprecedented avenues for increasingly desirable, high-performing, and sustainable packaging, paving the way for a new era of environmental footprint reduction for our industry and beyond.”
