Smarter biomaterials for a better planet

SPECIALTY POLYMER PLATFORM

Specialty polymers designed to outperform today’s materials, and biodegrade

Essential industries depend on specialty polymers that persist in the environment for decades. Planet Smart designs polyaminoacid polymers to match or beat them on performance then break down when the job is done. Our first proof points are in agriculture.

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Performance first. Biodegradable by design.

A new material only gets adopted when it does something the current one can’t. That’s the bar we design to and we build biodegradability into the polymer itself, rather than bolting sustainability on afterwards.

One core material platform, tuned per application

ONE CHEMISTRY, MANY PRODUCTS

One polyamino-acid backbone to engineer the structure to performance link, linking to different specialty products.

Designed to do what current materials can’t.

NOT A GREEN COPY OF TODAY’S PRODUCT

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

One manufacturing process for every product.

REACTIVE EXTRUSION, SCALED WITH MANUFACTURING PARTNERS

A single process that serves every application. It keeps capital needs low and lets each product reach industrial volume on the same route.

the platform

One platform.
A polymer solution for every application.

Planet Smart combines three strategic elements: tunable data-system enabled polyaminoacid chemistry, an application-led design method, and one common reactive-extrusion process scaled with manufacturing partners.

For each application we set the polymer’s design. What we learn — chemistry, process and data — carries over to the next one.

We don’t sell polymer off a price list. We develop products together with application partners who bring them to market, and the platform gets stronger with every one.

How the platform works

Chemistry

One polyaminoacid chemistry, tuned per application

Product design

Built to do what the current materials can’t, and tested against it

Manufacturing

One reactive-extrusion process, scaled with manufacturing partners

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.

New product lines for substrate and crop-input makers — 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.

Water-treatment products for systems that today’s persistent chemistries can’t serve.

Home & Personal Care

Polymers for laundry, dish and personal-care products — keeping soils dispersed, surfaces clean and formulations stable — developed with formulation partners.

New claims and formats for brands moving away from persistent polymers.

Hygiene

Where Planet Smart started — and the toughest performance test for any biodegradable absorbent. Feminine care is the lead application, developed with partners.

Feminine-care and Hygiene products without persistent absorbents.

THE PROBLEM

The Microplastics problem is a polymer-engineering problem.

Microplastic build-up isn’t a marketing problem, it’s a design flaw. Today’s polymers are built to last forever. We engineer degradation into the polymer backbone, so it stays stable exactly as long as the application needs, then breaks down.

Regulation is moving the same way

2019

EU Plastic-in-Product Labeling

EU rules to disclose plastic content in products and inform consumers of environmental impacts.

2026

Anti-greenwashing enforcement

EU rules on environmental claims apply; ‘biodegradable’ must be substantiated.

2027

Wastewater monitoring

Treatment plants must measure microplastics in effluent.

2028

Soil applications

EU microplastics restriction phases in for fertilisers and agricultural products.

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.”

Built by polymer chemists and process engineers.

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Tell us what your current material can’t do.

We develop products built for our partners’ applications — performance the current material can’t deliver, biodegradable by design.

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