Ligrin AG develops SMM — a selective separation technology that unlocks value from dirty, complex, and low-grade streams.
SMM (Small Molecular Mover) is a hardware-enabled, selective separation technology. It moves valuable ions and molecules out of dirty, complex, high-fouling streams and into clean receiving streams — at low pressure, ambient temperature, and reagent-free — so proven downstream recovery works better, on feedstock it couldn't handle before.
SMM is selective — it moves only the characterized target compound, a valuable or process-inhibiting molecule at nano-to-micron scale. Selective SMM separation materially improves the unit economics of the whole process.
An aqueous stream that carries the target compound — difficult and costly to handle by conventional means.
Valuable and isolated — a recovered commodity, or ready for downstream processing.
Ready for utilisation, or for environmentally-safe disposal.
A hardware-enabled process module that selectively moves valuable ions and molecules out of dirty, high-fouling streams into clean receiving streams.
Dramatically lowers downstream processing versus current methods, and unlocks feedstocks that are too dirty or too costly to process.
Bioenergy, biochemicals, mineral extraction, food & feed, biopharma, chemical processing, and environmental remediation.
Proprietary hardware, know-how and process designs protected by a growing patent and trade-secrets portfolio.
Cleaner recycling and mining hydrometallurgical circuits.
Enhanced valorisation of biomass and waste streams.
SMM-boosted precision fermentation and enzymatic processes.
Advanced separation and recovery of contaminants and residual value.
If you run a process limited by fouling, feed complexity, or costly purification, we'd like to pilot SMM with you in one of these domains:
Tell us about your stream and the bottleneck you're hitting.
pilot at ligrin dot com