Piezochem

"Piezochem: there for life."

- Piezochem's motto

"Piezochem.... Medkits. Respirators. Bots for recovery and medical assistence.  Providing necessary products as we stand beside you in a difficult time."

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Piezochem is a multinational corporation established after The Collapse, which controls the global biomod market and has a significant stake in the robotics market by 2072. It's not directly present in Deus Ex: Invisible War, but plays a role in the story.

Background
Formed in the wake of the Collapse, which obliterated industry giants like Page Industries, Chiang and Matsu-Gravas, Piezochem became a major WTO-backed corporation after developing a new nanotechnological augmentation architecture, which made the technology much more widely available: One in twenty humans was compatible with Piezochem biomods, which had the added advantage of being largely indistinguishable. With WTO's backing and oversight, Piezochem biomods became the standard for human augmentation and the only ones available for purchase. As a result of this monopoly, Piezochem is effectively synonymous with biomods, and next generation biomod architectures bearing its mark are a coveted item among enthusiasts of human augmentation.

The greatest threat to Piezochem's monopoly came from ApostleCorp, which developed an universal biomodification technology that was far more efficient than Piezochem's and could be applied to anyone, as it restructured the host's DNA to tolerate biomodification, making them compatible with every human being. The WTO became interested, officially to protect "competition" and maintain biomod prices, as was The Order, which saw this degree of genetic recombination and rewriting as a mortal sin against humans, leading to a standardization of the human organism, turning ability and talent into simple biomod modules, and thus completely upend the social order. In reality, the power brokers behind both became concerned that such a technology would make mankind truly equal and impossible to manipulate for the Illuminati ends - echoing the concerns from half a century prior, when mechanical augmentation raised the same problems for the old council.

The Omar also competed with Piezochem, though in a different way. Their independently produced, black market biomods mimicked the corporation's architecture to maintain genetic compatibility, but their foreign infusion signatures rendered them incompatible with Piezochem mods. This was deliberate, as the Omar offered abilities and augmentations Piezochem refused to consider.

Beyond biomods, Piezochem also manufactured medkits, respirators, and medical bots, among other things, and was one of the most significant players in the biomedical market. The WTO backing made it possible for the corporation to establish a monopoly and dictate prices as it saw fit, typically out of reach of the less fortunate and usually more in need of its technologies.

Products

 * Biomods
 * Medkits

Bots

 * Piezochem A-V810 Medical bot
 * Piezochem W31V Repair bot
 * It likely created big cleaner bot, light spider bot and nanoformer but it is not clarified.

Behind the scenes

 * The name, "Piezo Chem", literally translates to The Chemistry of Pressure or Stress. It likely comes from Piezoelectricity, or the minute amounts of power that are generated when mechanical stress occurs in certain materials. Although this form of generation is notably weak, Piezoelectric implants can build enough power through basic human activities, such as walking, to power simple machines such as flashlights or even the nanites of the 2070s.