PDA Ecolab

Carbon fiber is an amazing material. It’s light, strong and makes better-performing, more efficient products, from bikes to satellites, tennis rackets to wind turbines. A car made with just 17% bodyweight in carbon fiber generates 5 tonnes less in greenhouse emissions over 10 years than a standard car. But carbon fiber has a massive environmental footprint itself. A single kilo generates almost 30 kilos of greenhouse emissions. That carbon fiber car generates 3 tonnes more emissions during raw material production than a standard car, frontloading the environmental impact when the world is fighting to cut emissions in half by 2030. PDA Ecolab is developing new bio-based materials that can be used by themselves as natural-fiber composites or to enhance carbon-fiber composites for higher performance, lower greenhouse emissions and reduced material costs. PDA believes that the change to sustainable materials offers a unique opportunity to improve product performance. We support composite fabric producers and product manufacturers in sporting goods, automotive, windpower and more through this transition. Founded in early 2020 in the heart of the French Alps, PDA Ecolab is backed by Alchemist Accelerator, the leading B2B accelerator globally, as well as Bpifrance, the French national investment bank, and ADEME, the French national environmental agency.