Feedstock-flexible biomanufacturing, built to scale

Materia is the industrial line of ChakraTech's microbial platform.

Materia turns flexible feedstocks, methanol, sugar, and waste carbon, into high-performance materials and chemicals. Feedstock flexibility is the point. It lets production bend to cost, availability, and supply chains that need to stay resilient.

Biodegradable bio-polyesters are one of those outputs, designed to perform and then break down naturally in soil and marine environments. They are just one part of what Materia makes, alongside a growing range of specialty chemicals.

Epitomizing Circular Economy

A regenerative closed loop.

ChakraTech's platform transforms carbon-rich streams, ranging from sugars to waste, into valuable materials and chemicals, from biopolymers to specialty compounds. Our R&D focuses on optimizing microbial pathways for efficient carbon utilization.

Diagram illustrating the process of bioethanol production from plant materials, including steps like irradiation, fermentation, downstream processing, and reuse of byproducts.

Ancient Microbial Processes

Ancient bacteria store carbon as “fat reserves.” These fat reserves are actually natural polyesters that degrade naturally.

Oikonomou et al, Atlas of Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Structure. Caltech Library, 2020

Microscopic image of a cell with labeled overlays showing various fluorescent markers: top left labeled "Tomographic slice," top right labeled "Nile Red" with a red highlight, bottom left labeled "Polymerase-GFP" with green highlights, and bottom right labeled "Composite" showing all markers combined with orange and yellow highlights.

Koning et al, 2023

ChakraTech’s Innovations

A microbial platform built to run on cost-effective, flexible feedstocks, including methanol, sugar, and carbon-rich waste streams.