MATERIA

Materia is a revolutionary catalyst technology company that enables the chemical transformation of key conventional and bio-based feedstocks, creating better, greener and more cost-competitive processes and products. Materia has successfully commercialized the Nobel Prize-winning olefin metathesis catalyst technology discovered at Caltech by Professor Robert H. Grubbs. The Grubbs Catalyst:tm: technology is a Ruthenium-based chemical catalyst system that can unlock value for almost any olefin-based business. Compared with traditional processes, Grubbs Catalyst products typically offer dramatic reductions in the number of manufacturing steps, amounts of byproducts, and the quantities of solvents and waste, thereby significantly lowering capital and operating costs.