Fiber
High-performance natural fibers from crop residues
Converts agricultural crop residues into high-performance natural fibers for textiles, nonwovens, paper, packaging, and industrial applications.
Non-food biomass
Agrefinery®
A feedstock-agnostic biofractionation platform that turns crop residues into fiber, polymer, and chemical co-products—without competing with food supply.
- Feedstock
- Non-food biomass
- Outputs
- Fiber · Polymer · Chemical
- Status
- Pre-commercial
The problem
Demand outpaces supply.
Global fiber and polymer demand keeps climbing, yet conventional feedstocks strain land, forests, and fossil supplies — creating pressure on ecosystems and finite resources.
In focus
01 / 04Global fiber & polymer output
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540+ million tonnes of fibers and polymers produced annually — demand keeps climbing.
Relative scale
Source: Global plastics production exceeded 414 million tonnes in 2023 (Statista), while global fiber production reached approximately 132 million tonnes in 2024 (Textile Exchange Materials Market Report 2025).
By the numbers
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Crop biomass
Most of the plant is residue.
These are some of the plants that provide our food and the clothing we wear, representing one of the largest sources of agricultural biomass.
~40% of the crop biomass is used as food or fiber
Cotton fiber and seed
~60% are crop residues and this biomass may be used for bio-products
Cotton Stalk
Cotton → Cotton Stalk. After ginning, cotton stalks are among the largest lignocellulosic residue streams — ideal feedstock for bio-based polymers and textile fibers.
The waste crisis
Burning residue has a cost.
Much of this biomass is burned — driving climate change and air pollution.
Field-scale burningCrop residue flames
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Climate change. Open-field residue burning releases CO₂ and short-lived climate pollutants — turning crop waste into a regional emissions crisis.
Health burden
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*WHO 2008
Technology
How Agrefinery® works
Biofractionation unlocks fiber, polymer, and chemical value from non-food crop residues.
Feedstock intake
Crop residues — cotton stalk, rice husk, wheat straw, cane bark — from the world's largest agricultural biomass categories.
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The Agrefinery®
Food Crop Residue Valorization
“The Cutting Edge of the Future”
UNESCO
“Golden Chalice of Sustainability”
Top Textile Research Institute
Co-products
Three streams from one residue feedstock.
Each fraction becomes a distinct product line — fiber, polymer, and chemical building blocks — valorized without competing with food supply.
Polymer
Bio-based polymers replacing fossil plastics
Transforms non-food agricultural biomass into bio-based polymers and plastic alternatives for durable goods, packaging, and consumer products.
Chemical
Renewable chemical building blocks from biomass
Produces renewable chemicals and functional bio-based ingredients from agricultural residues through advanced biomass fractionation.
Why Agrefinery®
Built to compete with virgin materials.
From feedstock flexibility to multi-product output — everything a circular biomass refinery needs to compete with virgin materials.
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Low cost
Competitive with conventional virgin and fossil-based products.
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Feedstock agnostic
Processes the largest non-food lignocellulosic biomass categories.
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Biofractionation
Mechanical, chemical, and hydrothermal fractionation unlocks constituent value.
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Multi-product
Fiber, polymer, and chemical co-products from one feedstock stream.
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Renewable energy
Non-wood biomass, wind, and solar power closed-loop operations.
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Fertility cycle
Regenerative fertilizer co-product returns carbon and minerals to soil.
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Carbon negative
Annually regrown biomass in a one-year carbon loop.
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Bioenergy
Simultaneous bio-energy and bio-chemical production.
Markets
Where Agrefinery® goes to work.
Textiles
Apparel · Nonwovens · Industrial fabrics
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Commercialize with us.
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