NeoNaar Biotech

We see material where
others see what remains.

NeoNaar Biotech Private Limited is an Indian biomaterials company developing functional cellulose materials from agricultural residues. NeoNaar is our company and brand; NeoCell is our cellulose material platform.

Our work begins with one question:
What useful material is still present, and what can it do?

Paddy fields and Western Ghats in Palakkad, Kerala

Materials have a sourcing problem.
Biomass has a value problem.

Industry depends on highly engineered materials to control structure, stability, flow, coatings and performance.

At the same time, agriculture produces large volumes of biological resources whose useful fractions often remain underused.

NeoNaar connects those two opportunities by turning biological residues into new material starting points.

Use more of
what is already there.

NeoNaar is developing an agricultural-residue biorefinery model.

Instead of extracting one component and treating everything else as secondary, we separate useful fractions and develop each around the function it can provide.

NeoNaar founders Kishore Kumar and Gayathri Menon in the laboratory

Performance without ignoring
where materials come from.

Use residues better

Recover useful material before biological resources lose value.

Build alternatives

Develop renewable materials that can be evaluated in applications currently dependent on conventional material systems.

Recover more value

Use multiple fractions rather than building the economics around one extracted product.

Design for industry

A material only matters if it works inside the customer’s process, formulation or final product.

The material landscape
is changing.

Industries are under increasing pressure to reconsider persistent and petroleum-derived material systems.

That creates demand for renewable alternatives, but renewable alone is not enough. The replacement still has to deliver function.

Illustrative industrial chimney emissions

NeoNaar is developing materials that can be evaluated where structure, suspension, flow, texture and formulation performance remain essential.

Map of India with Coimbatore marked in southern India
Coimbatore
Map credit

NeoNaar Biotech is based in
Coimbatore, India.

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