Smarter biomaterials for a better planet

SPECIALTY POLYMER PLATFORM

Performance critical materials, designed for the application.

Essential industries run on specialty polymers that do their job and then persist in the environment for decades. Planet Smart designs polyaminoacid specialty polymers to outperform them — absorbing, retaining, dispersing, controlling ions and deposits — and to biodegrade by design. We build the platform one application at a time; our first proof points are in agriculture.

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Performance first. Biodegradable by design.

Customers adopt a new material when it lets them do something they could not do before. We design to that bar first — and build end-of-life behaviour into the polymer rather than adding sustainability afterwards.

One tunable polyamino-acid core

SHARED CHEMISTRY

A shared chemistry whose architecture is set per application — the same core, designed into different specialty products.

Designed for unmet
needs

NOT A PREMIUM VERSION OF THE INCUMBENT

We design for performance the current material cannot deliver — the kind that gives an established manufacturer a reason to launch a new product, not to swap an ingredient.

One capex-efficient
manufacturing
technology

REACTIVE EXTRUSION, SCALED WITH MANUFACTURING PARTNERS

A single process, designed to serve every application. It keeps capital light and lets each product reach industrial volume on the same route.

the platform

One platform. Application-
defined specialty products.

Planet Smart combines a tunable polyaminoacid core, an application-led design method and a common reactive-extrusion process scaled capital light with manufacturing partners. Molecular weight, charge, crosslinking and functional form are set for each application; the chemistry, process learning and data are shared across all of them. We don't sell polymer off a price list. We develop unique products with application partners who bring them to market — and the platform
compounds with every one.

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Chemistry

Tunable polyaminoacid core

Product design

Designed to the application's unmet need; benchmarked against the incumbent

Manufacturing

Our reactive-extrusion technology — being developed in close strategic knowledge partnerships, to scale capital light

Markets

One platform, four markets

Four markets where persistent polymers still do essential work. In each we develop unique products with application partners, starting from a defined unmet application need.

Agriculture

Root-zone water management for protected
horticulture and growing substrates —
moisture stability between irrigation events, at
a dose and cost growers can use.

OPENS:

NEW PRODUCT LINES FOR SUBSTRATE AND CROP-INPUT
PARTNERS — WATER MANAGEMENT BUILT INTO THE GROWING SYSTEM

Industrial water

Soluble products for scale, hardness and
deposit control in cooling water, process water
and mineral processing — the antiscalant and
dispersant roles where phosphonates and
polyacrylates persist today.

OPENS:

TREATMENT PRODUCTS FOR WATER MATRICES THAT PERSISTENT CHEMISTRIES CANNOT SERVE

Home & Personal Care

Polymers for laundry, dish and personal-care
products — dispersancy, anti-redeposition,
deposition and rheology — developed with
formulation partners

OPENS:

NEW PRODUCT CLAIMS AND FORMATS FOR BRANDS MOVING OFF PERSISTENT POLYMERS

Hygiene

Where Planet Smart started, and the
platform's hardest performance benchmark.
Feminine care is the lead application,
developed with partners.

OPENS:

A NEW GENERATION OF FEMININE-CARE PRODUCTS WITHOUT PERSISTENT ABSORBENTS

Responsibility

Microplastics problem is a chemical-engineering problem.

Microplastic accumulation is not a marketing hurdle:
it's a failure of end-of-life material programming. We engineer precise degradation behaviour into the polymer backbone, so stability lasts only as long as the application needs it to.

2018

EU Plastic-in-Product Labeling

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2026

Anti-Greenwashing Enforcement

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2027

Mandatory Wastewater Monitoring

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2028

Restrictions on Soil Applications

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how we think

“We aren't building a better plastic. We're designing the next generation of specialty performance polymers, and giving them an end-of-life by design.”

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our partners

Bring us your unmet application need.

We develop products with a unique fit to our partners' applications — performance the current material can't deliver, biodegradable by design.

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