13:07Inside The Startup Reinventing The $6 Trillion Chemical Manufacturing Industry
Solugen combines enzymes with metal catalysts in a process it calls chemoenzymatic processing to make chemicals with higher yields and a smaller environmental footprint. The talk traces the idea from a low-cost PVC prototype and early peroxide sales to a large Houston manufacturing plant. It shows how the founders used customer discovery and small, early sales to find a market before scaling up. The speakers also explain how modular plants near customers and a willingness to experiment shape Solugen’s plans for future manufacturing.