A cleaner industrial future, grown from seed.
NovaSeed Bio commercializes breakthrough seed-oil technologies to deliver high-performance, biodegradable lubricants for industry — without the petroleum and without the compromise.
- 100%
- Bio-based
- High
- Performance
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- Petroleum
The problem
Industry runs on lubricants that the planet can't afford.
Petroleum dependency
Industrial lubricants remain overwhelmingly derived from fossil oil — a finite, carbon-heavy supply chain.
Regulatory pressure
Environmental concerns, tightening regulations, and rising disposal costs are squeezing legacy formulations.
Performance compromise
Today's bio-based alternatives too often sacrifice viscosity, oxidative stability, or lifespan.
Our solution
High-performance lubricants from novel seed oils.
NovaSeed develops environmentally friendly lubricants from seeds with unique oil compositions — bio-designed to deliver superior performance and sustainability in a single drop.
- ✓Differentiated oil chemistry built into the seed
- ✓Enhanced functional performance across temperature & load
- ✓Biodegradable end-of-life with reduced disposal burden
- ✓Scalable agricultural feedstock platform
Performance without compromise
Built for the machinery that builds everything else.
Other bio-lubricants ask you to trade performance for sustainability. NovaSeed's seed-oil platform is engineered from the molecule up — so you don't have to choose.
Oxidative stability vs. legacy bio-oils
Operating temperature window
Carbon & disposal footprint
From seed genetics up
Applications
Wherever industry needs a cleaner drop.
Targeting the largest, fastest-evolving segments of the global lubricants market.
Industrial lubricants
Drop-in replacements for general machinery, bearings, and gear systems.
Hydraulic fluids
High-stability fluids for mobile and stationary hydraulic systems.
Specialty formulations
Tailored chemistries for demanding niche applications.
Biodegradable solutions
For environmentally sensitive sites — marine, forestry, agriculture.
About us
About NovaSeed Bio
NovaSeed Bio commercializes engineered seed-oil technology for high-performance, bio-based industrial lubricants — safer to produce, safer to use, and designed to outperform petroleum alternatives. Our advantage is encoded in the crop itself, not in an additive package competitors can replicate.
Proprietary Oil Chemistry
Engineered crop varieties produce oils with molecular architectures not available in commodity vegetable oils. The performance advantage is built into the feedstock.
Where We Are Today
Prototype lubricant formulations produced and bench-tested for friction, wear, and viscosity. Thermal and oxidative stability characterization is in progress, and we are entering the pilot partnership phase.
Integrated Expertise
Our founding team spans oilseed crop biochemistry, plant breeding, advanced materials science, and tribology. This cross-disciplinary depth is the barrier to fast-follow competition.
Kent Chapman
Plant lipid metabolism and metabolic engineering, decoding how plants synthesize and store lipids.
Diana Berman
Tribology and lubrication, translating seed oil chemistry into lubricants that meet industrial specifications.
Edgar Cahoon
Engineering the fatty acid composition of oilseed crops for industrial applications, bringing molecular-level mechanisms to reality.
John Park
Molecular genetics and crop breeding, closing the gap between a promising oil chemistry and a field-deployable, agronomically viable crop variety.
Why NovaSeed
Six reasons we win — at the molecule, the field, and the market.
Differentiated oil chemistry
Plant-engineered molecules unavailable in conventional feedstocks.
Enhanced functional performance
Designed to match — or beat — petroleum benchmarks.
Biodegradable by design
Lower disposal burden and end-of-life impact.
Deep technical expertise
Oilseed biochemistry, crop breeding, and materials science under one roof.
Scalable agricultural platform
A feedstock model that grows with demand.
Sustainable supply chain
Renewable, domestically grown, and resilient.
Replace petroleum. Keep performance. Start with a sample.
Talk to our team about pilots, formulation partnerships, or licensing — we're actively engaging industrial OEMs and specialty formulators.