# Benoit Illy - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Benoit Illy for AI agents.
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> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Benoit Illy
- Role: Co-founder and CEO
- Company: Fairbrics
- Location: Paris, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoit-illy

## About
Benoit Illy is the co-founder and CEO of Fairbrics, a company he started in March 2019 and runs from Paris. In the same year he was a member of the EFPA2 cohort at Entrepreneur First, from April to December 2019.

Before founding Fairbrics, he worked at Safran Aero Boosters on thin film processing between December 2018 and April 2019, and spent three years at Reynard Corporation as a product and project engineer from July 2015 to September 2018. He joined Saint-Gobain in April 2012 as a thin film development engineer and became an R&D project leader in May 2014, remaining until November of that year. Earlier he was a postdoctoral researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology from 2008 to 2011, and an innovation project leader at SNCF in 2003 and 2004.

Illy holds a PhD in nanotechnology from Imperial College London, an advanced master's in innovation from Arts et Métiers, and a master of engineering in materials from Grenoble INP - UGA.

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## Recent News
- [2026-06-29] The new KPMG and Fédération de la Mode Circulaire study sizes the European circular fashion market at roughly €104 billion by 2030. It… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benoit-illy_circularfashion-co2-industrialpolicy-activity-7477254691152814080-40ju)
- [2026-06-26] Chemical recycling of PET is advancing fast, and it is one of the more credible paths to a circular plastics economy. It is worth… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benoit-illy_chemical-recycling-of-pet-is-advancing-fast-activity-7476167830758002690-kxFB)
- [2026-06-22] Most of the packaging decarbonization conversation today is about recycling. It matters. But recycling will only ever cover part of the… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benoit-illy_most-of-the-packaging-decarbonization-conversation-activity-7474717871944863744-Jobk)
- [2026-06-19] Textile Exchange has just published a 300-page life cycle assessment of polyester, virgin and recycled. It is one of the most useful… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benoit-illy_polyester-life-cycle-assessment-lca-study-activity-7473630828183494656-vI6-)
- [2026-06-15] I'll be at VivaTech on Wednesday 17 of June. The official theme this year is AI. Most of the floor will be about software that gets… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benoit-illy_vivatech-climatetech-vivanotech-activity-7472210785004490769-WYUZ)

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