Americans dispose of roughly 46,300 mattresses every single day. Eighty-eight percent go straight to landfill; the rest gets downcycled into rebond foam.[1] Each mattress contains petrochemicals worth recovering.
Flexible polyurethane foam lives in mattresses, cars, furniture, and packaging. These foams are made from two key petrochemicals: polyols and diisocyanates. Almost none of them are recovered back into these valuable building blocks. They are too valuable to keep burying.
Molecular-level recycling, designed with safety and efficiency in mind. Every recycled ton of polyol displaces a ton of virgin petrochemical, reserving our finite supply for critical applications like medicine and defense. Mild conditions, drop-in supply, a domestic hedge when oil markets tighten.
Founded in 2025 at Arizona State University's Biodesign Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing.
Currently pre-seed, optimizing our bench-scale process for industrial-scale production of recycled polyols. Provisional patents filed.
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A solvolysis reaction in which an alcohol cleaves a chemical bond — severing polyurethane polymer chains and returning them to their original molecular building blocks, ready to be re-polymerized into virgin-quality material.
Lysis is developing molecular recycling technology to recover polyurethane polyols from end-of-life polyurethane foams.
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Lysis Corp is developing molecular recycling technology to recover polyurethane feedstock chemicals from end-of-life foam — mattresses, automotive seating, furniture, and packaging.
Founded in 2025 at Arizona State University's Biodesign Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing, Lysis operates at mild conditions to produce drop-in recycled polyols. The company is currently in early R&D phase. Provisional patents filed.
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