Top 5 des entreprises de bioplastiques (juin 2026)

L’ère du plastique

Before diving into what bioplastics are, it is important to acknowledge that regular plastics are an omnipresent material in modern life. We use it for packaging food and drink and in manufacturing, like making pipes, clothing, or even cars and airplanes.

It is also a material made almost exclusively from fossil fuels. While it can somewhat be recycled, after enough cycles, it will ultimately end up “consumed.”

The worst is turning it into trash in the environment or into micro-plastic pollution, which happens to roughly 80% of total plastic usage. But even if incinerated, it will produce CO2, like any other fossil fuel combustion.

Source: Danimer

This is not a fatality; however, plastic is essentially carbon chains assembled in specific ways. So, there is no reason that organic materials could not provide the basic components for plastic manufacturing.

Bioplastiques

To answer the growing concern about plastic production, bioplastics have been developed. They are made from plant materials, often leftovers from other industries like paper mills or farming. Le secteur devrait atteindre 25 milliards de dollars d’ici 2027, avec une croissance annuelle composée de 14,9 % (d’autres études prévoient une croissance de 17 %).

Pourtant, les bioplastiques ne représentent que 1 % du marché total actuellement dominé par les plastiques issus de combustibles fossiles, laissant un marché adressable très vaste.

Source: Avantium

Une sous-section de cette catégorie est les plastiques biodégradables, qui sont plus respectueux de l’environnement. La plupart des bioplastiques se dégradent plus facilement que les plastiques classiques. À ce sujet, des recherches sont également menées pour trouver des microbes capables de digérer le plastique « normal » afin de résoudre le problème de la pollution microplastique.

Dans l’ensemble, les consommateurs sont prêts à payer davantage pour des produits écologiques, avec une tendance croissante, notamment parmi les jeunes ces dernières années.

Source: Good Natured

You can also read more on the topic on le site web de la Bioplastic Feedstock Alliance.

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Despite the “bio” part, the bioplastic creation process is very much a chemical engineering issue. So, as you will see, it is not surprising that most of the industry leaders are also the leaders in the chemical industry or spin-offs from it.

Nevertheless, investors looking into bioplastics might not want to invest directly in giants like BASF, as the bioplastic part is almost irrelevant to the company’s overall business. For example, BASF will much more likely depend on the price of natural gas in Germany.

The following list is focused on smaller publicly traded companies, with a strong focus on bioplastics and eco-friendly solutions.

Top 5 des entreprises de bioplastiques

(companies are ordered by market capitalization at the time of the writing of this article)

1. Corbion

A long-established company in ingredients like sugar and lactic acid, the company has une histoire relativement complexe avec de multiples acquisitions, fusions et scissions.

It gets simpler post-2013 when the company refocused exclusively on biobased products. This includes a series of biobased ingredient product lines from the serial acquisitions of TerraVia Holdings in 2017 (ingredients from microalgae), Granotec do Brazil (bakery industry) in 2019, and Granolife (Mexican bakery industry) in 2021.

Depuis 2016, Corbion possède une coentreprise à parts égales avec Total for the production of bioplastics, more precisely, polylactic polymers that are used in food packaging, textiles, electronics, or even 3D printing.

While not entirely a bioplastic company, Corbion is a good stock in the general biobased ingredient sector, from bioplastics to food ingredients.

It is also a profitable company that experienced some growth after its 2013 restructuring and distributes a modest dividend of below 2%. Combined with a large market cap, this is a stock more fit for conservative investors looking for exposure to bio-materials and bio-ingredients.

2. Danimer Scientific, Inc.

(DNMR )

Danimer is a pioneer in the bioplastics and biodegradable/compostable polymer sector, with more than a decade of experience, and has been publicly listed since 2020.

Starting with the 2007 acquisition of PHA plastic IP from Procter & Gamble, it has later established agreements and partnerships with Nestle, Bacardi, and Mars, among others.

Another major connection is PepsiCo, which also invested in Daminer in 2018.

In the latest company news, Danimer has announced la création de biopolymères compostables pour dosettes de café en partenariat avec Corbion.

The company is not yet profitable, with 180 M$ de pertes en 2022. It recently raised $130M of new debt to “avoid diluting les actionnaires existants.”

This came from a massive investment in a new factory to boost capacity to 65 million pounds of finished, PHA-based resin, triple the 20 million pounds a year ago.

Danimer is a growing company with very ambitious goals and solid relations in the industry. It will need to become more profitable soon, and gaining in scale will help, making its products cheaper and more competitive. Investors must be patient and pay attention to the company’s balance sheet and cash reserves.

3. Avantium

Avantium was founded in 2000 as a spin-off from Shell.

Its first product was la technologie YXY® plants‑to‑plastics convertissant catalytiquement les sucres d’origine végétale en FDCA (a base for polyester). It then developed Ray plantMEG™ (mono‑éthylène glycol), used in the textiles, packaging, and automotive industries.

Lastly, sa technologie Volta, partiellement obtenue grâce à l’acquisition de Liquid Light,  aims at turning CO2 into a useful material for bioplastic chemistry.

Source: Avantium

The company has established des partenariats avec de nombreuses grandes entreprises, for example, LVMH, Carlsberg, ABInBev, Henkel, LEGO, and Salomon.

En avril 2022, l’entreprise a levé 45 M$ supplémentaires. Avantium’s management declares having a clear path to growth and profitability, with the first license and manufacturing plants started in 2021 and 2022 and products reaching shops’ shelves by 2024.

Source: Avantium

Investors in Avantium will need to be patient and count on the company turning profitable as it expands. They will also want to check the progress made on executing the growth plan and the success in commercializing at scale the company’s products.

4. Good Natured Products Inc.

Good Natured is focused on developing its own line of plant-based plastic products, notably food containers and bin plastic bags, with a total of 400 products.

Good Natured Products

The company plans to rely on both organic growth and strategic acquisitions, especially as the industry is very fragmented and could benefit from consolidation (even the largest US company is just 3% of the global market share).

Good Natured registered $101M in revenues in 2022, up from 2021’s $61M. This was still not enough to be profitable, with a net income of -$12M in 2022.

Investors will want to see revenues keep growing and profitability improving with economies of scale.

5. Biome Technologies plc

Biome Technologies is a UK company formed of its division Biome Bioplastic and its Stanelco RF division, focused on radio-frequency heating equipment (for the fiber optic market). 40% of revenues are from the bioplastic division.

Source: Biome Technologies

The company’s main product is a compostable coffee pod, a type of plastic product made unrecyclable by contamination with coffee. Instead, Biome products can compost both the plastic and the coffee together. Another product is l’abri d’arbre compostable.

The product mix of Biome is a little surprising and not solely focused on bioplastics. However, it seems this will be the main focus going forward, as RF revenues have strongly declined in 2020 and are still to recover.

It is a micro-cap (below $10M), and the small operating profit in RF technology is compensated by a loss in the bioplastic divisions. Net income and free cash flow were negative in 2022.

You can also read further about Biome Technologies in ce rapport d’analyste d’Allemby Capital.

Investors must be cautious, as a return to growth for the RF division is uncertain, and bioplastic profitability can be hard to achieve quickly. It is nevertheless an interesting stock considering its very low market cap and growth potential, estimated at 25% per year for the bioplastic division.