Engineering enzymes to close the loop on plastics
Acrion is an enzyme-engineering research company tackling the plastics the world can't recycle
Who we are
A research lab built to make plastic circular.
Acrion unites enzyme engineering, polymer science, and AI to rethink what happens to plastic at the end of its life. Some plastics should safely break down. Others should never be wasted at all — they should return to monomers and become new polymer, again and again.
Backed by the 25+ year materials legacy of Blend Group and based in Hyderabad, India, our interdisciplinary team of scientists, polymer engineers, and AI specialists is pursuing patent-led breakthroughs in biodegradation and chemical circularity.
Biodegradable
Plastics
Bioscience &
Artificial Intelligence
Patents, Publishing & Collaboration
What we do
Breaking down polyolefins
Polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) are the most abundant — and most persistent — plastics on Earth, with tough carbon backbones that resist breakdown. We discover and engineer enzymes capable of degrading these polyolefins safely, without leaving microplastics behind.
Our Platform
AI-guided enzyme engineering.
Finding the right enzyme used to take years. We compress that cycle by pairing wet-lab discovery with computational tools — protein-structure prediction, machine-learning-guided design, and directed evolution — to engineer enzymes that are faster, more stable, and tuned to real-world waste streams.
Recovering monomers, reproducing polymer
PET, nylon, and mixed textile waste don't need to be thrown away — they can be unmade. Our enzymes depolymerise them back into their building-block monomers, which we repolymerise into virgin-quality plastic. A true closed loop, not downcycling.
Patents & Knowledge Sharing
Committed to scientific leadership, we secure intellectual property for our innovations while publishing breakthroughs and collaborating with global environmental bodies.
Our Vision
“What falls to the earth should return to it -
so should our materials.”
We envision a world where plastic is no longer waste, but a resource that cycles indefinitely. Every result we reach, we document and share — not for recognition, but to accelerate the global shift to circular materials.
