Company
About Us
Founded in 2019 as a research led manufacturing start up, Magical Mushroom Company® has evolved into an industrial scale biomaterials producer focused on replacing polystyrene with natural, biologically grown materials.
Our mission is simple: make polystyrene a thing of the past.
We develop and manufacture Mushroom® Packaging as a high performance alternative to expanded polystyrene and moulded fibre. Using mycelium grown around agricultural by products, we form a strong biological composite and combine it with disciplined industrial processes to deliver consistency, scale and cost competitiveness.
Production is anchored at our Beeston facility in Nottinghamshire, supported by our R&D Centre in Addlestone, Surrey. Our model integrates ongoing material research with repeatable manufacturing systems, ensuring performance improves as we scale.
We are accredited to BSI ISO 9001 standards, reflecting robust quality management across design, tooling and production. Our technical development has been supported by UK innovation funding, including a £1.1m Innovate UK loan and Innovate UK Smart Grant funding for the MycoShield programme focused on EPS replacement in white goods applications.
Our finished material is fully dried and biologically inactive before leaving our facility, designed to integrate seamlessly into modern supply chains.
We believe sustainability must perform at scale. Only when natural materials meet industrial discipline and commercial reality can meaningful change happen.
As a company driven by sustainability, MMC firmly believes that a truly sustainable planet can only be achieved by creating a more equal, diverse and inclusive society.
Equality and Diversity is a key KPI for MMC and performance is owned by CEO and measured targets will be reported to the board.
We will use the UK Government backed EY National Equality Standard framework, to assess and improve and whilst we are recognise that we need a more diverse board and team, we are improving this with incremental changes.
We aim to look forensically at talent life cycle, with no visible or invisible barriers to stop anyone progressing through our organisation from a minority background.
Recruitment - We have a process that promotes inclusivity in job descriptions; rejects non-diverse shortlists; challenges educational selection bias and introduces diversity in interview panels.