Aropha was founded in 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio by our founder Kuan Huang and his co-founder, Travis Johnston who have both been at the intersection of sustainable chemistry, data science, and automation for their entire careers. Under their leadership, the company has rapidly been able to make a name for itself in the testing industry, working with 150+ organizations from around the globe.
Now, Aropha has become a fast-growing start-up that is accelerating biodegradable material development through predictive modeling and laboratory automation. They are bringing their cost-effective PBT property modeling and lab testing services to the entire chemical industry, allowing every company to shorten their sustainable chemical development timelines and reduce development costs.
The market pull and industry push toward green chemistry is growing stronger every day and designing chemicals for degradation is an essential part of a truly sustainable chemical strategy. The chemical industry needs to have more accurate ways to screen for harmful PBT properties early in development and then more efficient ways to validate positive PBT properties later on. Without companies having access to this key developmental component, it will be extremely difficult to adequately design new chemicals for degradation at the rate that they are being demanded.
In 2019, then PhD candidate at Case Western University, Kuan Huang and his team were approached by a personal care chemical developer. They were looking to test the biodegradability of their polymer samples. While working with this company, Kuan and his team noticed something wrong with the biodegradability testing industry: while all of the methods were well developed and followed, these testing services were nowhere near hitting mass adoption.
These tests are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and wildly unaffordable for the average industrial consumer. Thus, the goal was established — making biodegradability testing services efficient, reliable, and cost-effective through the implementation of AI-driven technology.
After researching and developing our processes for years, we established our testing services. This was very similar to the services provided by our competitors; however, we revolutionized the industry by cutting down the average turnaround time and cost. Since then, we have greatly expanded our capabilities to include a wide range of biodegradability testing, high-throughput screening, and our AI-driven technology, ArophaAI, to set new norms for rapid, large-volume experimental tests.
With our combination of digital twin simulations and lab biodegradability testing, we are turning biodegradability testing into a high-throughput, on-demand process with the ultimate goal of substantially advancing biodegradable chemical product development. If you are ready to get started on your streamlined biodegradability testing, contact our team today.
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