Sustainable, biobased surfactants for cleaning products and industrial applications
By using agricultural waste as feedstock, we have developed a new process to produce highly efficient and green surfactants for cleaning products.
Our product portfolio
Made from converted bio-waste and chemical feedstock
Our technology
Our chemical process exploits readily available feedstock to produce new surfactants for cleaning products.
Surfactants are commodity chemicals which finds application in different consumer and industrial sectors
Main applications are in cleaning, agriculture, painting, polymerization and other minor applications such as pharamaceuticals and electronics. The most commercialized surfactant today are the linear benzene sulfonate (LAS).
Our services
For sulfonators
Ecosaf offers furan-based hydrophobes to facilitate precise testing in sulfonation plants, optimising manufacturing processes.
Product development
We have expertise in the assessment of cleaning formulations and development of new task specific detergents through utilization of statistical software and know how.
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The problem with detergents
Linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) is the most commercialized surfactant, particularly in laundry products, which is derived from fossil fuels.
Bioataraxis has the solution
In answer to this we have created EcoSaf, a non-toxic, biodegradable and sustainable detergent made from bio-waste from agricultural activities as its chemical feedstock.
We aim to bridge the gap between conventional and green detergents.
Our technology delivers better performance than comparable bio-based products. The current market for bio-based laundry detergents is struggling to expand because products are expensive and have limited performance.
Our achievements thus far
Funding
We completed our pre-seed funding round with a total value of £1.3 million through grants and capital investment.
Development
We are focussed on developing and scaling up EcoSaf technology with the aim of licensing our technology to chemical producers.
Awards
EcoSaf won first place in the UK National Final of Climate Launchpad and went on to pitch our technology at the European finals, where we were placed 9th in the Regional Final.