Our Core Technology
Founded in 1992, Metabolix is an innovation-driven bioscience company providing sustainable, clean solutions to the world’s needs for plastics, fuels and chemicals. We take a systems approach, from gene to end product, to integrate sophisticated biotechnology with advanced industrial practice, and our technology is strongly patented with over 320 patents globally.
In 2006, Metabolix formed Telles™, a 50-50 joint venture with Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), to commercialize the production of Mirel™ bioplastics. Made by microbial fermentation of sugars such as corn sugar or cane sugar or vegetable oils, Mirel bioplastics are biobased, sustainable and totally biodegradable alternatives to petroleum-based plastics that are used for many everyday products. Telles is responsible for the manufacturing, marketing and sales of Mirel bioplastics worldwide.
We are also developing a proprietary platform technology for the co-production of bioplastics and biomass for biofuels such as ethanol, and for chemical products, in non-food biomass energy crops such as switchgrass.
