Every can of paint, every bottle of printing ink, and every tube of adhesive relies on speciality chemicals most people never think about, and almost all of that supply chain still runs on virgin, fossil-derived raw material.
Tulon Materials, a Mumbai-based startup founded in June 2022, is betting that plastic waste can quietly replace a meaningful chunk of it.
Eight decades of chemistry experience, one shared problem
Tulon was founded by Asesh Sarkar, Dr Rabindranath Mandal, and Harsh Bhatt, who together bring nearly eight decades of experience in the chemical industry to the venture.
That depth of domain expertise shows up directly in how the company describes its own mission: bridging what co-founder and CEO Harsh Bhatt calls "the historical gap between deep scientific research and commercial agility," a gap that has historically kept promising materials science stuck in the lab far longer than it needed to be.
