Nature’s code, engineered.
Redefining what’s possible with cellulosic biomass
GranBio's product range offers a scalable, reliable, and cost-competitive low-carbon alternative to petrochemicals
Cellulosic solutions, built for scale.
Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the planet, found primarily in plant cell walls and widely available in low-cost feedstocks such as wood and agricultural residues. Cellulosic biomass can be transformed into various applications, from biofuels to cosmetics and textiles. Through our ingenuity, we have unlocked its full potential: our solutions deliver the industry's lowest carbon footprint - without carbon capture - enabling reduction of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions at scale well ahead of 2050 targets. Explore our product categories to discover the full range of benefits and use cases. We offer two supply modes: a) technology licensing; or b) purchase of intermediate and finished products directly from GranBio.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Cellulosic SAF is less costly, scales up faster, and doesn't compete with food. GranBio's SAF is the only non-carbon-capture solution that delivers a net-zero carbon footprint, with potential for negative emissions.
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Bio-based platform chemicals
Through our whole-barrel-approach, we produce a high-purity sugar stream from forestry and agricultural residues as a co-product of cellulosic ethanol. This sugar stream serves diverse applications across a wide spectrum of industries.
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Nanocellulose
Nanocellulose enhances performance across applications through reinforcement, transparency, rheology, and barrier properties, enabling advanced solutions for coatings, automotive materials, and packaging.
Learn moreBernardo GradinWe like to think of GranBio as being in a state of perpetual innovation. The walls in our facilities are covered in whiteboards as we wanted to create a spirit for the company that combined the magic of innovation with the discipline of entrepreneurs."
Founder, GranBio
Circular to the core
The World Economic Forum defines circular economy as "an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design. It replaces the end-of-life concept with restoration, shifts towards the use of renewable energy, eliminates the use of toxic chemicals and aims for the elimination of waste through the superior design of materials, products, systems and business models."
GranBio's business model supports the key pillars of the circular bioeconomy* and the circular bioeconomy of wellbeing**.
*Circular economy key pillars as per Ellen Macarthur Foundation
**Circular bioeconomy of wellbeing by European Forest Institute (EFI)
Eliminate waste and pollution
By designing products to circulate and return to nature, we transform the take-make-waste system into a regenerative one where nothing is lost.
Circulate products and materials
Materials remain in use first as products, then as components or raw materials, preserving value and preventing waste.
Regenerate nature
Reducing the need for virgin resource extraction helps decouple economic growth from raw material sourcing, enabling ecosystem restoration and rewilding.
Enable equitable prosperity
Circular bioeconomy models support rural communities and diverse ownership structures, generating shared value and long-term wellbeing.
The Circular Economy | World Economic Forum
Explore the diagram below to see how we’re doing our part in the circular economy.
Creating Positive Impact
GranBio’s cellulosic bioproducts, including biofuels, biochemicals, and materials, allow valorization of each biomass component to its highest economic and societal value and extended use through recycle.
The CO₂ released from burning or using our products, such as SAF, is biogenic, originally captured from the atmosphere by biomass.
Instead of burning, landfilling, or letting residues decompose, biomass wastes (such as forest and sugar cane residues) are converted into valuable products such as 2GEthanol, Sustainable Aviation Fuel, and biochemicals using a whole-barrel approach.
By removing wood and agricultural residues from forests and fields, we're helping to conserve nature by decreasing devastating wildfires risk and supporting nature regeneration.
We take a resource-conscious approach in our processes: we repurpose existing assets whenever possible; leverage existing supply chains; foster partnerships; generate our own clean electricity and inject the remaining to the grid; ensure high yield per ton of feedstock; and recycle chemicals used in our processes.
Our processes and plants are located in rural areas, contributing to the development and prosperity of local economies.
