Novamont was founded in 1990 in order to develop and market products manufactured by Fertec, a Montedison subsidiary whose mission was to fuse Montecatini's chemical capabilities with those of the agro-industrial Ferruzzi group. After incorporating Fertec Novamont continued to strive to find new ways of utilising green raw materials, resources which could be renewed from year to year. The aim was to transform these into “bioplastics”, biofuels and renewable chemical intermediates for low environmental impact applications, but with all of the properties of traditional products.