Revolutionary biomaterials
for forward thinkers.
Celium™:
Premium Cultivated Cellulose.
We grow Celium™ by feeding bacteria with agro-industrial fruit waste.
Rooted in biology
Guided by design
Refined into Celium™
Celium™ is a new generation of cultivated materials.
Grown by bacteria nourished with agro-industrial fruit waste, it forms during fermentation as a cultivated sheet of cellulose. This biological origin gives Celium™ a coherent structure that is resilient, soft, and inherently adaptable.
After cultivation, the material undergoes a stabilization process that defines its characteristics. During this stage (our equivalent to tanning), we refine thickness, handfeel, flexibility, and overall performance. Once stabilized, Celium™ can be finished through color, embossing, or protective finishing, extending its visual and functional possibilities while preserving its biological foundation.
Celium™ does not imitate existing materials; it stands as a category of its own. Each sheet carries subtle variations linked to its living origin, resulting in a refined, high-performance material capable of adapting across applications. Cultivated with precision and shaped through intention, Celium™ reflects a new approach to making: one that begins with life and evolves through design.
One material, multiple expressions
Performance Meets Possibility
One cultivated material can take on many roles. Celium™ begins as a cultivated sheet of bacterial cellulose, but its behavior is defined in the hands of designers and makers. It can drape, fold, and stitch like a soft surface, or be structured into precise, architectural forms. The same origin can become a garment panel, a bag shell, a lighting element, or a piece of furniture detailing.
Its versatility comes from how it responds to transformation. Celium™ can be cut cleanly, layered, perforated, embossed, or combined with other substrates to adjust body and support. Surface finishes introduce color, protection, and texture without erasing the material’s depth. This combination of responsiveness and stability makes it suitable for both tactile, close-to-skin pieces and more robust, spatial applications.
Across these uses, Celium™ maintains a coherent identity: a cultivated material with a refined hand, visual definition, and a clear link back to its biological origin. Rather than mimicking existing materials, it gives designers a single, consistent base they can push in multiple directions, exploring new expressions without changing the underlying source.
Where biology meets creativity, the future unfolds.
How to Work with Celium™
Celium™ is available in full sheets, sample kits, or through custom developments. Brands, studios, and independent designers can request materials directly from our team by filling out the inquiry form or contacting orders@polybion.bio.
Each request begins with a short conversation. We help identify the most suitable version of Celium™, discuss quantities, finishing, and timelines, and offer tailored guidance for your intended application. For small developments, the minimum order is two sheets of 17 sq.ft. each, ideal for prototyping. For customized color or material characteristics, the minimum order is 63 sheets. For pricing, please contact our team.
Celium™ is grown to order. Although our production is fully scaled, cultivation happens batch by batch, which means we operate through a delivery pipeline and often work with a waiting list. Once your order enters production, we coordinate cultivation, finishing, and shipment from our headquarters in Mexico to any destination worldwide.
Celium™ is cultivated with care, and so is every collaboration that begins with it.
Celium™ at Zona MACO, Latin America’s Leading Art and Design Fair
- Published on
- February 10, 2026
At Zona MACO Diseño, Celium™, Polybion’s Premium Cultivated Cellulose, was used across multiple design applications, demonstrating its versatility as a commercially available biomaterial.
At Polybion, we developed Celium™ - Premium Cultivated Cellulose, a biomaterial designed to move beyond experimental settings and into real-world use.
That transition became visible through Sintropía, an exhibition presented by design students from Tecnológico de Monterrey at Zona MACO Diseño, where Celium™ was independently selected and purchased by the students as the material basis for their projects.
Biomaterials used in everyday design contexts
Throughout the exhibition, Celium™ was applied across a range of domestic and spatial objects, including functional pieces, lighting elements, furniture, and accessories. The students approached the material as they would any design-grade surface, making decisions around form, construction, stitching, and finish while exploring its texture, flexibility, and structural behavior.
This approach reflects a shift away from speculative narratives and toward biomaterials used as part of real design processes.
Versatility across applications and formats
Celium™ appeared in different formats and finishes, adapting to distinct functional and aesthetic requirements. From flat surfaces to curved forms, the projects demonstrated the material’s ability to support diverse design intentions while maintaining a consistent visual and tactile identity.
For Polybion, this diversity is especially meaningful. It reinforces our goal of developing biomaterials that can be integrated across disciplines rather than confined to a single application.
Designing with materials available today
What makes Sintropía particularly relevant is the mindset behind it. These projects show emerging designers engaging with commercially available biomaterials as part of their education, using Celium™ not as a future concept, but as a material ready to be utilized, challenged, and applied.
Seeing Celium™ adopted in this way confirms our belief that meaningful innovation happens when cultivated materials enter everyday design decisions and become part of the present.
Looking to work with biomaterials that are actually ready?
Talk to our team
Start working with Celium™ today. Choose a Swatch Sampler for first-hand evaluation, or a sheet set to move into prototyping and trials.
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