Manuel Milliery founded Papkot in 2020 to eliminate plastics from packaging using AI and data-driven material science. His work focuses on creating modular coatings that give paper the functional properties of plastic—while remaining recyclable, biodegradable, and industrially scalable. By combining formulation expertise with real-time performance data, he has built a system to rapidly adapt coatings across substrates, processes, and market needs. At Papkot, innovation is built for speed, rooted in science, and designed to scale.