OUR COMPANY

At a time when many of our everyday products  are still too heavily dependent  on petroleum based molecules AFYREN is offering to a wide panel of industries biosourced replacements, thanks to an environmentally friendly technology that uses natural microorganisms.

Founded in 2012, AFYREN collected more than €70 million funding in 2019, which allows the company to grow from a pilot stage to industrial-scale production.

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OUR TEAM

Nicolas SORDET

CEO

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"My 15 years of experience in finance have taught me to be open to the world and also given me the desire to change our high-carbon, oil-dependent society. With AFYREN, I feel I am leading a project that is truly transformative for our clients, one that combines innovation, the environment, and economic viability."

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Jeremy PESSIOT

CTO & FOUNDER

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"I have spent more than 10 years acting on the conviction that the environment and the economy go hand in hand marvelously, and on making that combination a reality. AFYREN has been an incredible journey. It is the story of a number of exceptional people who have worked together to overcome every possible technical and human limit with the shared aim of creating an industry for the future."

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Maxime CORDONNIER

CFO

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"I have spent over 10 years working on technological and industrial projects with a positive social and environmental impact. The AFYREN project combines economic performance with a respect for the environment, and I am at this point involved on a daily basis in preparing its deployment and making this technology accessible worldwide."

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Fabrice ORECCHIONI

COO

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"My commitment to AFYREN is the result of 20 years of experience in green chemistry. It is based on firm humanist convictions that we must produce things in a new and different way. This is what we work on each and every day as we deploy innovative technologies to service a more sustainable form of industry."

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Joachim MERZIGER

CCO

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“In my 20 years of experience in the chemical industry I have developed two main priorities: business development and problem solving. AFYREN has given me the opportunity to unleash an immense development potential by providing solutions to some of the major problems that our industry and society are facing as a whole.”

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Jean SAINT-DONAT

CEO

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"After spending 30 years as an executive in the global chemical industry, the decision to join AFYREN was an obvious one. I am proud to manage the first industrial site that uses our technologies, and thereby the opportunity to demonstrate its relevance of our project, which is based on renewable carbon chemistry."

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AFYREN NEOXY

AFYREN NEOXY is the first manufacturing plant to implement AFYREN’s technology and expertise. Located at the CHEMESIS platform  in Carling Saint-Avold, it produces a family of 7 organic acids.

AFYREN NEOXY is the result of a joint-venture between AFYREN and Bpifrance’s SPI Fund.

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OUR VALUES

Our success is based on the team-work of our employees  sharing the same ambition and spirit. AFYREN’s corporate culture is based on 3 core values that form the basis of our continued success on our future journey: responsibility, agility, and humility.

RESPONSIBILITY

AFYREN is a company with a profound sense of responsibility: we aim to make a significant contribution to reducing the environmental impact of industrial activities worldwide. This sense of responsibility drives the progress of our project and everything we do on a daily basis.

AGILITY

In a world where technological innovation is accelerating worldwide and our economic environment constantly evolving, AFYREN will remain an agile company, ready to seize opportunities by adapting its strategy and operating practices.

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HUMILITY

We know that the journey will be long and that our contribution to the planet will be built gradually. Like the hummingbird in the ancient legend retold by the likes of Pierre Rabhi, Wangari Maathai and others, we are contributing our share: the best we can, every day a little more.

OUR PARTNERS

Since AFYREN’s foundation, we have developed the company by working closely with a number of academic, institutional, industrial, and financial partners. The creation of our first industrial facility, AFYREN NEOXY, is the direct result of all of these cooperations.

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