If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter in the world. Metalchemy aims to address this crisis through the circular economy and sustainable solutions via our nano-enabled bioplastics. Our research indicates it can save money to both businesses and consumers.

Metalchemy’s bio-packaging is plant-based and biodegradable, and could offer an alternative to petrochemical synthetic plastics. By incorporating our nanotechnology into bioplastics, our own research indicates that food shelf life can be increased by 7 days for meat, 5 days for cheese, and 4 days for fresh salad.

The global eco-friendly food packaging market is expected to grow from £113 billion in 2019 to £191 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 6.8% during the forecast period of 2020-2027. We aim to sell our sustainable solutions via B2B to food retailers and distributors, and initiated discussions with these.

We opened two production facilities, developed MVPs, submitted several pending patents, created a portfolio of partnerships, were selected as both Alpha & Impact start-up at WebSummit and joined the NatWest accelerator programme.

With your investment, we aim to further develop our nano-enhanced bioplastics to optimise our product. We estimate our scale-up manufacturing could produce up to 800kg/year of bioplastic and begin our go-to-market strategy by running trial studies with potential clients.