From lab to launch, sustainably.
Our mission is to end plastic waste at the source: by making it fast, predictable and affordable for any brand or manufacturer to build the products we use every day from bioplastics and biomaterials. We apply machine learning, computational chemistry and data science across formulation, manufacturing and regulatory approval so a sustainable product reaches the shelf in months.
Let’s turn the plastic industry upside down.
We’ve been where others are headed.
Materia Bioworks was founded by Toronto-based engineers, scientists and commercial leaders with more than a decade of experience scaling bioplastics from the lab bench to an industrial demonstration plant. Along the way we turned waste into PHAs and co-developed four commercial products with Fortune 500 companies across packaging, food and beverage, and pharmaceuticals.
Doing it ourselves showed us the real barriers to adoption: fragmented supply chains, long R&D cycles and costly scale-up. Every brand and manufacturer making the switch runs into the same three.
Today our team of materials scientists, engineers and operators puts that experience to work for every company we partner with.
Meet the team →MAPS
MAPS (Materials Application Prediction System) is an end-to-end suite of tools that helps brands and manufacturers create products with bioplastics and biomaterials faster, smarter and more affordably.
Whether you’re meeting an internal sustainability mandate, preparing for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations, or moving to naturally derived materials with superior end-of-life properties, MAPS turns that commitment into a product on the shelf.
See the platform →Our partners
The organisations we work with to get sustainable products to market.
