Advanced PHA Biopolymers
We’re Following
Nature's Lead.
Our PHACT™ PHA biopolymers are made by microorganisms that transform CO2 into functional, biodegradable materials.
Products
PHA Products Overview
Derived from nature and produced sustainably, PHAs can be used as building blocks replacing and improving the functional characteristics of a broad range of polymers in the production of finished goods or as starting points for sustainable chemistry.
Neat PHA Resins
We manufacture semi-crystalline and amorphous PHAs by modifying the P3HB and P4HB ratios of our materials. Our unique neat resins can be purchased for use in your custom compounds and formulations.
Masterbatches
We offer a portfolio of PHA-based masterbatches designed to allow customers the flexibility to control blending ratios into compounds that will enhance performance and processing attributes tailored to specific applications. Our masterbatches are supplied in concentrated pellet form of amorphous PHA blended with scPHA, PLA, or PBAT.
Compounds
Our PHACT™ PHA compounds are ready-made solutions for producing food packaging, nonwovens, and food serviceware applications with enhanced sustainability and performance attributes. PHACT PHA compounds can be used in common plastics and fibers conversion technologies.
The CJ Difference
From Fermentation Expertise to Functional Biopolymers at Global Scale
Our corporate parent, CJ CheilJedang, has a 60+ year history in advancing fermentation technology to produce ingredients for food, feed, and pharmaceuticals at scale. We are now leveraging that global bioproduction platform to design and manufacture unique PHA biopolymers with functional attributes, competitive costs, and growing global capacity.
Applications
PHA Applications
PHAs are used to design highly functional applications that meet the processing needs of converters while delivering the circularity attributes demanded by brands, governments, and consumers.
Food Serviceware
The convenience of food serviceware makes it a part of our everyday life. Unfortunately, it has also become a part of our everyday landscape. CJ Biomaterials PHACT™ PHA can help deliver that convenience without the consequences of the environmental threat. Today, we are working across a broad range of serviceware applications – from trays, straws, cups, and cutlery, to enhance the functionality and environmental performance of single use food serviceware.
Flexible Food Packaging
Lightweight, durable PHA films for stick packs, snack bags, pouches, sachets, and bin liners—delivering strong performance with certified compostability.
Rigid Food Packaging
Biobased, clear, impact resistant, and with options for both commercial and home compostability
Beauty Packaging
The processability, durability, light weight and low cost-in-use of petroleum-based plastics have made them a major component in almost every consumer product we buy today – whether we realize it or not. These products – especially when they are composites – are particularly difficult to recycle effectively. The answer lies in replacing petroleum-based plastics in consumer goods with more environmentally friendly and bio-based alternatives like our PHA.
Nonwovens & Hygiene Products
Fibers and nonwovens made with PHACT™ PHA are biodegradable and compostable – and they offer excellent performance properties in the manufacturing environment. They can be modified to deliver anything from high strength to a soft touch – safely. This makes them suitable for a broad range of end-use applications such as hygiene wipes, diapers, and nonwovens.
Artificial Turf & Infill
Infill, commonly used in soccer and sports fields, supports artificial turf and absorbs impact, helping to prevent player injuries. By replacing petroleum-based polymers to our bio-based PHACT™ PHA, we are creating safer turf for athletes and environment that meets performance standards.
Use PHACT™ PHA in Your Next Product
PHACT™ PHA is a safe, low-carbon biomaterial designed to replace persistent fossil-based plastics in everyday products.
Sustainability
A Material Designed by Nature
PHAs are naturally occurring materials produced by microbes and found in nature for millions of years. Today, PHACT™ PHAs are manufactured through large-scale fermentation of renewable carbon sources such as plant-based sugars.
Marine/Soil Biodegradable by TUV AUSTRIA
Commercially and Home Compostable by BPI and TUV AUSTRIA
Certified Bio-based USDA
No Persistent Microplastics
Press & News
Latest News & Insights
Designing Compostable Packaging With PHA Blends: Five Practical Lessons
Notes from recent converter trials on blend ratios, processing windows and the design choices that decide whether a compostable pack performs on the line.
CJ Biomaterials Expands Technical Support Team in Europe
New application engineers based in the region will support converters running PHACT™ PHA trials on existing extrusion and injection molding lines.
What Makes PHA Different From Other Biopolymers
PHA is often grouped with PLA and starch blends, but it behaves differently in the field. Here is what sets it apart for product designers.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about PHA materials, applications, performance, and sustainability.
Explore PHA for Your Application
Our technical team can help evaluate materials, performance requirements, and sustainability targets for your product.
CJ Biomaterials is the biomaterials division of CJ CheilJedang, producing PHACT branded PHA biopolymers at commercial scale.
CJ Biomaterials produces PHA biopolymers and related basic chemicals using fermentation based biotechnology. Building on decades of experience in food and biotechnology, the company uses bioscience, chemical engineering, materials innovation, and applications development to manufacture PHA solutions at scale for global markets.
Packaging, food serviceware, agriculture, personal care and consumer goods are the most common, wherever a persistent plastic can be replaced.
PHA breaks down in soil, industrial compost and marine environments, so it does not persist as microplastic at end of life.
They shorten the time a discarded product remains in the environment, which reduces accumulation in landfill and waterways.