Letter from the CEO

From the Desk of Mike Hamilton, 2024

Renmatix delivers Material Innovation by coupling our proprietary and award-winning water technology with biomass. Mother Nature makes the plant cell wall rich with an abundance of cellulose and lignin. Using our Plantrose® technology, we release the plant cell wall into new and unique materials, with immense functionality. These materials can be used in a variety of applications in a renewable world. And we do this only using water. Responsible use and care of Mother Nature’s bounty is in the DNA of our technology and company culture. We use water in its supercritical state, managing pressure and temperature, to make unique particles that form the basis of our materials and products. 

Our Plantrose process is a flexible, novel solution that delivers sustainable intermediates today to meet highly demanded current and future applications.  These intermediates (sustainable cellulosic sugars, high purity lignin, and natural polyols) can meet renewable demand in an array of industries, from bio-ethanol and SAF to foams, plastics, construction materials, and batteries.  We are working with customers looking to drop CO2 emissions in their product lines, but still demanding performance, innovation and value. It is now obvious the material sectors are shifting to more renewable products, given the strong customer and regulatory push for such innovation.

More and more, the world demands we not only reuse more biomass and plant waste, but that we Upcycle it into more valuable ingredients and products. That is what Renmatix is doing. We are an Upcycle Pioneer, using forestry residues in combination with our water only conversion process, to deliver on this market need. 

It took us the better part of a decade to get the Plantrose technology platform optimized and capable of making a variety of fermentable sugar grades, and unique lignin and natural polyol grades. From our past we also explored the direct utility for our ingredients in the food, beauty, and health and wellness space, and believe we will be able to leverage those learnings at a later date.  Along the way we built a very strong and enviable Intellectual Property portfolio, consisting of patents, trade secrets, know how, and trademarks.

Supported by our lead investor, John Doerr, we are excited about our impact on the future and delivering sustainably attractive options for industry. We have big dreams for how to use Mother Nature’s plants to make more special materials for the world.