The Leipzig-based chemistry startup aevoloop has raised round €3.25 million in a Seed funding spherical, along with slightly below €5 million in funding from to speed up the market launch of its round know-how.
The general public funding is co-financed by the European Regional Improvement Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Saxony as a part of an R&D collaborative undertaking grant from the Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB). It’s supplied beneath the “Saxy Plastics” undertaking, by which aevoloop is cooperating with the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Analysis, Leipzig College and the Middle for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC). Alongside lead investor Flow into Capital, Positron Ventures and bmp Ventures by way of the IBG Innovationsfonds (Innovation Fund) are additionally investing.
“Plastic will not be essentially dangerous – solely the best way we deal with it,” says Dr Manuel Häußler, Co-founder and scientific lead at aevoloop. “With our know-how, we make plastics totally recyclable. In doing so, we mix the efficiency of standard plastics with true circularity. Our purpose is a world by which sustainable plastic can be utilized endlessly – with out waste and with out squandering.”
This funding spherical enters a 2025 European panorama by which circular-plastics and sustainable-materials ventures are more and more attracting capital.
Within the UK, Epoch Biodesign secured €17 million in Collection A funding to broaden its enzyme-based recycling platform, whereas Dutch agency Xycle obtained funding for a chemical-recycling facility in Rotterdam. In Germany, VYTAL Global raised €14.2 million to scale its reusable-packaging infrastructure, and CYNiO, situated within the broader Leipzig area, attracted over €2 million for CO₂-based speciality chemical substances.
This sample underscores Germany’s rising focus of exercise in sustainable-chemistry innovation. Inside this context, aevoloop’s mixture of personal Seed capital and important public co-funding positions it as a part of a pan-European shift in direction of round polymer applied sciences that bridge industrial scalability with environmental efficiency.
Wolfgang Hafenmayer, founding associate of lead investor Flow into Capital, provides: “aevoloop’s know-how is a major advance for the round economic system in polyolefins. For the primary time, we now have a real materials different – with out the compromises that different options entail. It’s exactly this sort of scalable innovation that may drive a systemic shift throughout your entire plastic worth chain.”
Based in 2024, aevoloop has developed a patented plastic round know-how. It allows chemically recyclable and biodegradable plastics that may be totally reused with none lack of high quality.
On this approach, aevoloop combines the efficiency of standard plastics with true circularity and allows upcycling as a substitute of downcycling – for sustainable packaging, movies, injection-moulded components and textiles.
This permits high-performance, chemically recyclable and biodegradable plastics and, for the primary time, combines some great benefits of standard polymer supplies with true circularity.
The startup replaces particular person hyperlinks in standard polyethylene or polypropylene chains with bonds that may be selectively opened – by way of a type of “predetermined breaking level.” They reprotedly retain all properties in use, however on the finish of their life cycle they are often chemically damaged down into their primary elements and processed into new plastic.
This can be utilized like standard polyolefins and, not like different sustainable plastics, will not be restricted to area of interest purposes. The biodegradability of those novel plastics additionally provides, in the long run, an answer to the microplastics drawback.
The underlying know-how can be utilized instantly on present extruders and injection-moulding machines. As well as, manufacturing is relatively cost-effective – purely bio-based alternate options are sometimes considerably dearer.
