Pioneering Sustainable Biomaterials for a Cleaner Future

About us

A specialty-
polymer company,built application
by application.

Planet Smart started with one problem — persistent absorbent polymers in hygiene products — and learned that the chemistry could do more than one job. Today we are building an engineered polyaminoacid materials platform, developing it one application at a time, starting with water management in
agriculture. We are building the company in the UK and Belgium, with manufacturing, knowledge and application partners.

Planet Smart was born from a mission to tackle plastic pollution.

PERFORMANCE FIRST

Sustainability is not a substitute for performance

A material earns adoption by solving a
performance, qualification or economic
problem. We design to that bar first.

EVIDENCE BEFORE CLAIMS

We say what the data supports

‍Every statement we make about a product maps to a defined test, a benchmark and a stage of development. Independent programmes come before performance claims.

END OF LIFE BY DESIGN

Stability for as long as the application needs it

We treat feedstock origin, performance and end-of-life behaviour as three separate questions, and answer each with evidence rather than with a label.

partnerships

Partners extend capability, not direction

‍Manufacturing, research and application partners bring capacity and independent measurement. Each partnership answers a defined question in the development plan.

Leadership

Technical & Commercial expertise that delivers results

Dr. Christian Lenges

Chief Executive Officer

Prev. DuPont, IFF

Specialty biomaterials
industrialisation and
commercialisation;
previously DuPont and
IFF.

Dr. Gerald Perry Marin

Founder · Chief Scientific Officer

Polyaminoacid chemistry · RxE process

Founded Planet Smart to
solve the environmental
problem of persistent
absorbents in hygiene;
leads the company's
vision and mission.
Previously sustainability
at J.P. Morgan.

Dr. Russ Thomas

Chief Business Development Officer

GKS, Symeres

Partnering and
commercial development
in specialty chemicals;
previously GKS and
Symeres.

Dr. Peter Seufer-Wasserthal

Chairman

Executive Biotech

Executive leadership in
industrial biotechnology.

Dr. Timothy Long

Scientific Advisor

Polymer Architecture

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Dr. Fan Li

Scientific Advisor

Data & AI

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Dr. Sven Serneels

Advisor

Production

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Dr. Alan Goldstein

Advisor

CPG Commercial

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Advisors

CPG Commercial

Production

Executive Biotech

Polymer Industrialization

Specialty Chemistry

Process Scale

Investors

Hear from our customers

Our last missing piece is a biodegradable SAP, especially after we were disappointed with other competitor’s products... We own our production so running a pilot is seamless.

Aaron

COO of a menstrual pad manufactuer

Our last missing piece is a biodegradable SAP, especially after we were disappointed with other competitor’s products... We own our production so running a pilot is seamless.

Aaron

COO of a menstrual pad manufactuer

Our last missing piece is a biodegradable SAP, especially after we were disappointed with other competitor’s products... We own our production so running a pilot is seamless.

Aaron

COO of a menstrual pad manufactuer