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Israeli waste recycling co UBQ Materials raises $70m

Sep 19, 2023 | blog

Israeli local weather tech developer of superior supplies made out of waste UBQ Materials right this moment introduced the completion of a $70 million financing spherical, led by Eden Global Partners, in participation with present traders together with TPG Rise Climate, TPG’s Rise Fund, Battery Ventures, and M&G’s Catalyst technique.

The funding will assist the corporate’s business, gross sales, and advertising and marketing enlargement worldwide. This will embody further services in Europe and North America, in addition to UBQ’s industrial-scale facility in Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands, which is about to open. The new facility can have an annual manufacturing capability of 80,000 tons of UBQ, changing 104,600 metric tons of waste yearly into a brand new uncooked materials.

UBQ Materials’ bio-based thermoplastic, UBQ, serves as a sustainable various to fossil-based plastics. The firm converts residual family waste diverted from landfills or incineration, together with all organics, into a sophisticated thermoplastic materials that’s each climate-positive and extremely recyclable. Leading trade manufacturers have already built-in UBQ into sturdy and semi-durable merchandise similar to automotive elements, footwear, pallets, show stands, panels, planters, with clients together with Mercedes-Benz, PepsiCo, and McDonald’s.

The firm was based by co-CEO and chairman Albert Douer, co-CEO Jack Bigio and normal counsel Rany Lev.

Douer stated, “UBQ as a sustainable material option can have a huge impact – but only with mass adoption. This means building UBQ facilities on a world-scale, which requires significant expansion and funding. Adding Eden Global Partners to our heavy-hitting investor list fuels our rapid growth trajectory as we continue to invent new material solutions that will expand humanity’s ability to use waste as a raw material.”

Bigio added, “UBQ has pioneered a fully sustainable resource, pivotal for existing manufacturing industries across endless applications,” stated Jack (Tato) Bigio, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of UBQ Materials. “Beyond major brands adopting UBQ™, our compounding partners have become integral to our ecosystem allowing us to further expand our ‘Made with UBQ™’ applications and international footprint, driving a true circular economy.” UBQ Materials is investing considerably in its R&D, growing new product strains to satisfy purposeful and efficiency necessities to serve the constructing and building, shopper durables, automotive, and logistics and provide chain industries.”

Published by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on September 13, 2023.

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