CelluDot LLC

CelluDot of Fayetteville produces BioGrip, a petroleum-free agrochemical adjuvant designed to keep volatile agricultural chemicals at the site of their intended use.

The company was founded in 2020 by Joseph Batta-Mpouma during his Ph.D. candidacy at the University of Arkansas. During his studies, Batta-Mpouma saw the growing struggle against herbicidal drift, the movement of chemical particles away from their target that can damage outside crops, and he designed a nanotechnology to address the problem.

Batta-Mpouma said that CelluDot has revolutionized the way people look at herbicidal drift-reducing adjuvants. BioGrip is the first such product derived from processing agricultural and forestry waste instead of from petroleum-based materials.

“We have created a completely new product,” Batta-Mpouma said. “We [no longer] have to rely on petroleum products to make these adjuvants, and, on top of that, our product is cost-effective.”

The company has received a federal grant of $959,510 to commercialize BioGrip.