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Decarbonizing the chemicals industry.
Solugen is decarbonizing the chemistry of everyday life with enzymes and innovative metal catalysts. Our new to the world Bioforge platform technology can produce high value chemical goods that are biobased and carbon negative, at cost on par with current technologies. We are making sustainable chemistry accessible to all living things, to ensure a prosperous world exists for generations.
Solugen positions itself as a chemical company focused on decarbonizing the chemicals industry. It emphasizes bio-based, engineered enzyme and metal catalyst platforms to enable sustainable manufacturing, reduce energy use, and decentralize production.
Solugen’s Bioforge platform enables sustainable chemical production using cell-free engineered enzymes to oxidize feedstocks, followed by metal-catalyzed steps that convert inputs into near-final products with higher selectivity and lower temperatures. The process emphasizes modularity (buildable anywhere at speed), decentralized manufacturing, and a simple downstream sequence (evaporator to remove water, crystallizer to create solid product).
Who it’s for: Industries needing decarbonized or more sustainable chemical manufacturing, including oil & gas, renewable fuels, aerospace & defense, water treatment, cleaning, agriculture, concrete, and personal care applications; enterprises seeking safer, lower-emission production with localized supply chains.
Press mentions and partnerships with major companies (ADM, Sasol, Kurita America) indicate active market engagement and commercialization milestones.
Sean Hunt is the co-founder and CTO of Solugen, Inc., a renewable chemicals company based in Houston, TX. All things chemical engineering and process technology development, scaleup, manufacturing, commercialization.
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We design and build microbes to make chemicals greener at lower cost.
Enzyme design models.
