High performance, safe chemistry – made from agricultural waste streams.

Copal develops biobased coatings, resins, adhesives from widely available agricultural byproducts. We're proving our materials safety before commercialization, not after.

From EU food contact bans to Prop 65 labeling requirements to OEM restricted substances lists,
the pressure to move away from bisphenol-based epoxy is coming from every direction.
Copal makes the transition possible without the performance trade offs, a drop in compatible resin 
for the coatings, adhesives, and encapsulants your products depend on.

Our process

1

Biobased Sourcing

Our material starts out as widely available, agricultural byproducts, sourced from suppliers already operating at commercial scale. Our partners convert those materials into our base molecule.

2

Green Chemistry

We use that base molecule to make our biobased epoxy and formulate that epoxy into final products. Our formulations can handle heat and adhesion as well as a BPA-based epoxy, all while containing no bisphenol of any kind.

3

Drop-in Formulations

Our finished formulations go into industrial processes the same way a bisphenol epoxy-based formulation would. Same equipment, same cure chemistry, safer molecules.

The reformulation window is open. If you're looking for bisphenol alternatives for coatings, adhesives, or encapsulants, we want to hear from you.
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Our team

Robert Fleming PhD
Co-founder / Chief Executive Officer

Robert spent nearly twelve years at 3M developing polymer formulations and scaling materials processes to commercial production. He went on to serve as CTO at CLEARink Displays and Shocking Technologies, and as VP of Research and Technology at Zymergen. His work has taken novel chemistry from laboratory synthesis to manufacturing lines, repeatedly.

Elizabeth Bridges
Co-founder / Chief Commercial Officer

Elizabeth began her career helping major corporations make new products and spaces, and with that insight has spent the last decade bringing new materials to market. She previously built two materials companies, leading commercial partnerships and market strategies across packaging, pigments, and building materials. She knows what it takes to move chemistry from a lab result to a product on a shelf.

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