This Mumbai startup turns unrecyclable plastic into paint and adhesive chemicals

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, wh