Phyona Ltd

The capacity of plants to adapt to their local environment to improve their likelihood of survival is an exciting and fascinating feat of nature. Certain plants known as hyperaccumulators, have the ability to extract metals from the soil while allowing their roots to clean their local environment. This approach can be used to recover metals from the soil ...

The importance of resilience for the procurement of raw materials has never been so clear as in the past 3 years when lockdowns and the events in Ukraine have strongly impacted the supply chains at global scale. The importance of sourcing materials locally is also supported by the national target for GHG emission and the strong input on GHG due to transpo...

Our Phyona (Phytomining of nanoparticles), aims at offering one integrated solution able to tackle two main problems that the UK is facing: - the dependence of the Country to other nations as supplies of raw materials, and the presence of pockets of land that cannot be used due to their high level of contamination. The current global political situation d...