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.
PEDROARTURO’s FRÁGIL Brings Celium™ to A Lot of Balls
- Published on
- April 22, 2026
On April 22, 2026, A Lot of Balls opens at Magda San Ángel in Mexico City.
Conceived within the cultural moment surrounding the world’s most visible sports tournament, the exhibition brings together more than 100 Voit footballs reinterpreted by over 100 Mexican creators across art, design, fashion, architecture, illustration, and other creative disciplines.
Under the artistic vision and management of Galería Ricardo Reyes, in collaboration with designer Ricardo Casas, the exhibition turns one of the most universal objects in sport into a canvas for authorship, symbolism, and experimentation.
Among the participating works is FRÁGIL, a piece by PEDROARTURO developed with Celium™️ Premium Cultivated Cellulose by Polybion.
Rather than treating the football as a symbol of spectacle, performance, or victory, FRÁGIL approaches it from a more exposed place. The piece reflects on masculinity, memory, vulnerability, and the emotional structures that are often projected onto the game. It does not reject football as culture. It reopens as a symbol. One that can also hold tenderness, pressure, fragility, and contradiction. That conceptual direction is central to the work, and the material had to support it.
For this piece, Polybion developed the material around the specific needs of the application. Construction, form, surface, and overall presence were carefully considered so the material could support PEDROARTURO’s vision with precision.
The result is a material language that feels natural, delicate, structurally intentional, and fully aligned with the idea of fragility. In FRÁGIL, material and concept are not separate layers. The material is part of the argument. It helps shift the football away from its usual reading and into something more introspective, and less fixed.
A Lot of Balls opens on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, at 7:00 PM at Magda San Ángel in Mexico City, before continuing as an itinerant exhibition across different spaces in the city.
The project will close with an auction in support of Fundación Origen, whose work focuses on programs for women and their families aimed at breaking cycles of violence and reducing poverty.
FRÁGIL will be part of that larger conversation: one where a familiar object is reimagined by over 100 creators, and where material development becomes part of the cultural and formal depth of the work itself.
Photo Credits: Cesar Belio and Octavio Gutiérrez
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