# HardTech · Clean Industry

# HardTech

**Country:** 🇵🇪 Peru · Santa Anita, Lima
**Category:** Clean Industry
**CT Taxonomy:** CT-IN-003
**Impact Areas:** Mitigation, Circular Economy
**Stage:** Prototype
**Team Size:** 3
**Website:** —
**Funded:** —

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## Elevator Pitch
Produce monocrystal silicon carbide using low-cost raw material in controlled atmosphere, as the concept has a provisional patent at USPTO (United States Patent and Trademarks Office) US 63/724,687.  It is possible to compete with Chinese technology.

## Climate Problem
Conventional Acheson process of silicon carbide emits large amount of carbon dioxide, and the consumption of energy is large because requires 36 hr.  Our process reaches a reduction of 30% in time and costs. Moreover, our method produces no CO2.

## Solution
We use induction furnace, and a chamber in vacuum so little or no CO2 is produced.  Polycrystal silicon carbide is our raw material, making its transformation in single crystal with no air emissions.

## Source Notes
Odoo res.partner id 492 (`x_startup_name` HardTech, `x_clp_cohort` CLP 2026, Peru). CLP26 application app_id 6404; imported catalog title was the long application headline (page 834 rename 2026-09-24).

## Founder
Alejandro Suarez Alvites