Symbios Technologies is a world-leading developer of gas/aqueous plasma technology for generating nitrogen fertilizer from air, water, and electricity. The privately held company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. Initial technology development and vetting was performed at the University of Wisconsin, Colorado State University, and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The Symbios Tubular Plasma Reactor™ (TPR™) was developed by Symbios under Phase I and II-IIB Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and other grant support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and additional nondilutive funding including strategic funding from a Fortune 50 food and beverage company, energy industry customers, pharmaceutical companies, and others along with prior funding from the Colorado Department of Agriculture, Colorado Governor’s Energy Office, and ag energy companies, totaling $5 million.
Symbios Technologies is commercializing its disruptive advanced low-cost, low-wattage volumetric aqueous plasma technology, the Symbios Tubular Plasma Reactor™ (TPR™), to improve production economics and sustainability in the nitrogen fertilizer industry.