BIOCRYL Technologies · Sustainable materials, India

Colour that returns
to the earth.

Biodegradable, non-toxic paint — engineered to replace acrylic, designed to leave nothing behind.

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The problem

Paint is plastic.
And it doesn’t come back.

~58%

of ocean microplastics come from paint — the single largest source, an estimated ~1.9 million tonnes every year.

84%

of Indian decorative paints tested exceeded the permissible lead limit.

PoP

Festival immersion of plaster-of-Paris idols spikes heavy metals in water bodies and collapses the dissolved oxygen aquatic life needs.

The technology

Acrylic performance,
rebuilt from biology.

Acrylic paint works because five components each do one job. BIOCRYL substitutes every one of them with a bio-derived equivalent — same function, different fate.

  1. 01

    Binder Core R&D + IP

    The film-former that holds paint together — in acrylics, it is the plastic. Our bio-polymer binder is engineered to do the same job, then biodegrade instead of persisting.

  2. 02

    Pigment

    The colour itself — formulated from bio-derived sources, designed to avoid the heavy metals found in conventional paint.

  3. 03

    Coalescent

    Helps the film form evenly as water leaves. Substituted with a bio-derived equivalent.

  4. 04

    Rheology modifier

    Governs flow, body and brush feel. Substituted with a bio-derived equivalent.

  5. 05

    Biocide

    Keeps paint stable in the can. Replaced with a preservative approach designed to be non-toxic.

First markets

Where colour meets
skin — and water.

Beachhead 01

Art, craft & school colours

Classrooms, studios, and everyone who paints with their fingers first. Our first formulations target creative and educational use — colour designed to be safe before it is anything else.

Beachhead 02

Eco-friendly idol paints

Ganesh and Durga idols are painted to be immersed. CPCB guidelines call for natural, water-soluble paints — a compliance-driven demand our chemistry is built to answer.

The vision

Colour shouldn’t cost the water it washes into. We’re building circular-economy materials that take microplastics and toxicity out of paint — colour that performs, and then lets go.