Lactips offers the first plastic-free polymer, water-soluble, and fully biodegradable plastic.

Specialising in the production of a water-soluble plastic that leaves behind no traces in the environment, Lactips is a French company founded in 2014. Based in Saint-Paul-en-Jarez (in France’s Loire department), the company was founded by Marie-Hélène Gramatikoff, a plastics engineer and company strategy specialist, and Frédéric Prochazka, PhD, a professor at the Université de Saint-Etienne. Alexis von Tschammer succeeds Marie-Hélène Gramatikoff in July 2022 as CEO.

With its patented technology, which uses natural proteins (caseins) as its raw material, Lactips focuses on manufacturers aiming to develop new products or take on new markets using a clean, biodegradable plastic that’s friendly to consumers and the environment.

There are numerous possible industrial applications since the Lactips technology is: water-soluble, biodegradable, mass-producible, print-ready, and edible, and also has strong barrier properties (to oxygen, fats, and mineral oils).

Lactips opened  a new production site with 2,500 m² of space (end of 2021). The company will be able to gradually increase its production capacity to about 10,000 metric tonnes of material produced in term.