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.
Vibe Lab Studio: A Program for Real-World Use
- Published on
- January 29, 2026
Biomaterials have progressed quickly, but adoption has moved carefully. Vibe Lab Studio is Polybion’s program to translate biomaterials into real objects and expand real-world use through limited drops.
From Material Readiness to Real-World Use
Biomaterials have advanced over the past decade. Their adoption, however, has moved slower than science.
This gap is often framed as a material limitation. In reality, it is usually a systems issue.
Materials do not scale simply because they exist. They scale when they become legible inside real product workflows: when teams understand what they are good for, where they fit, how they behave in manufacturing, and what the end product feels like in the hands of real people. That transition takes time, and it rarely happens through a single breakthrough or a single collection.
There is also a misconception that a biomaterial must replace every conventional material, in every application, at every scale, in order to be considered viable. That is not how materials work.
No material is universal. Conventional materials are not universal either. Every category has strengths, constraints, and use cases where it performs best. Biomaterials deserve the same pragmatic framing.
The fact that biomaterials cannot be used for everything does not mean they cannot be used today. Many of them are already available for a meaningful range of applications, and those applications matter because they create what adoption actually needs: repeated use, product familiarity, and feedback that improves material development over time.
A more critical point is easy to miss. If biomaterials remain confined to occasional capsule projects and symbolic prototypes, the category risks being read as a trend rather than a transition. Not because the materials lack substance, but because the world has not built the conditions for consistent use.
In materials, credibility is not only technical. It is experiential. People need to encounter the material in context, through objects that are functional, well-designed, and accessible to early adopters. That is how a category becomes normal.
This is why Polybion is launching a program designed to accelerate use, not as a marketing layer, but as an adoption layer.
Introducing Vibe Lab Studio
Vibe Lab Studio is a program initiated by Polybion, developed together with brands, independent designers, local manufacturers, and creative partners.
Its purpose is simple: to translate biomaterials into real, usable objects and place them into circulation today through limited drops. Not as a statement piece, but as a practical way for more people to experience biomaterials as part of everyday life.
We see this as a necessary step in the roadmap of sustainable materials. Use is not the end of the story, but it is how the story continues. It creates familiarity. It creates expectations. It generates the kind of feedback that makes both materials and products better.
Biomaterials are not a distant concept. They are here, and they are ready to be used where they fit today.
If this initiative is relevant to your work, please contact us.
Looking to work with biomaterials that are actually ready?
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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