Transfoam LLC (dba Ourobio) is a synbio, biomaterials, and circular economy startup. We develop engineered microorganisms to turn food and agricultural processing byproducts into low-footprint biodegradable plastic resins and additives, and we work with plastic converters and brands to create more sustainable products and packaging.
Our core technology is distinguished in its ability to convert complex agricultural waste streams into two complementary biomaterials in a single fermentation process, our proof-of-concept uses dairy processing byproducts as the raw material to non-competitively co-produce bio-based biodegradable plastic resins and pigments—lowering the cost, footprint, and difficulty of producing marketable/brandable, fully bio-based and biodegradable products and packaging.
