MetGen products

METNIN™ is a process that is enabled by a novel enzyme that not only works but has its optimum at highly alkaline conditions where lignin becomes water-soluble. Never before it has been possible to address lignin enzymatically in such processing conditions. METNIN™ process solubilizes any kind of lignin and after enzymatic refining fractionates the material according to a very specific molecular weight. Additionally, these fractions are easily tailored to have end-user specific chemical characteristics, including, solubility, dispersity, viscosity (liquids), particle size (powders), Tg, polarity, number of various surface-active groups, pH, ash content, etc. The process – thanks to the selected alkaline conditions – utilizes widely available industrial standard membrane systems. The operations are robust and fluent and allow for recycling of water and sodium hydroxide in the process, almost eliminating the waste.

You can own the right to producing the enzymes required in your process, including the production strains, the related production process technologies, and even get the EPCM to build your own site. For example, hydrolysis enzymes are notoriously expensive to source from a third-party. Why pay the margins of production and sales, while you can license MetGen’s bespoke SUNO™ and its production system and enjoy the continuous development and upgrades as they are created by MetGen’s R&D. MetGen’s production systems are built on bacterial as well as fungal strains and the processes are designed to be robust and easily transferrable. MetGen utilizes contract manufacturing locations and we are open to transferring the production to your preferred contractor as well. Production licenses can be utilized for any enzymatic solutions. It is noteworthy, that MetGen is also happy to supply enzymes at any scale as products as well.