Aropha is Making the Biodegradability Test Accessible to Every Business
Aropha was launched in 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio by our founder, a then Ph.D. candidate at Case Western Reserve University. We are a fast-growing independent product test laboratory, a research institute, and a startup company pioneering the application of automation and AI to advancing the biodegradability testing and biodegradable material discovery.
From personal values to business proposition
In early 2019, a personal care product developer reached out to our research group at Case Western Reserve University for the biodegradability test of their polymer samples.
While working with them, we noticed something very wrong with the biodegradability test industry. Despite that all the methods were well developed and followed by existing testing facilities, such services were not even close to hitting mass adoption. That’s because these tests at the time were all very time consuming (4-6 months per test), labor intensive, and completely unaffordable ($3,000-8,000 per sample) for the average industrial customers.
So we set off on a mission to change that, to make such services AI and robotics driven, efficient, reliable, and cost-effective.
After years of research and development, Aropha was launched. Our first product, the Certification Test, which was similar to the services provided by our competitors, revolutionized the industry by cutting both the average turnaround time and the cost by at least 70%.
Since then, much has changed. We built the best AI in the business to power ArophaAI so that our customers can make predictions reliably with just a few clicks. The new product High-Throughput Screening opens a brand-new work format that sets a new standard for rapid and large-volume experimental tests.