Cerealus Holdings

Cerealus was founded in 2004 as a product development company. Cerealus has collaborated research on numerous innovative technologies.

Cerealus was founded in 2004 as a product development company. Over the last 10 years, Cerealus has collaborated research with the University of Maine's Process Development Center on numerous innovative technologies. Cerealus has two patents issued and has one pending. Cerealus focus of development has been centered on cellulose as a substrate and as a raw material for new product development. They are currently pursuing a go-to-market strategy over the next 12 months. The funding they are seeking will be used to enhance a network of market representation, tools and equipment for carrying out this market introduction, and continued product development at the University of Maine. The market for biomaterials is growing at a tremendous pace as efforts to reduce fossil fuels, and fossil based materials is being driven by large and small companies alike. The platform chemistry is evolving from sugar to replace many of the current chemical raw materials and intermediates. In fact, the US Department of energy has submitted a list of 12 important chemicals that should be derived from biobased materials. This space is an exciting sector to be, as developments are occurring at an exponential rate. Cerealus has an early entry into this space with its work with cellulose, corn starch, corn protein, and nano-cellullose. Cerealus envisions a range of products based upon these raw materials beginning with their current offerings.