Founder, String Cubed and Timeplast
Manuel Rendon
Inventor. Founder and CEO of Timeplast and String Cubed.
About
Manuel Rendon is an inventor and the founder and CEO of Timeplast and String Cubed, two companies based in Winter Springs, Florida. Born in San Cristóbal, Venezuela, he trained as an environmental engineer at the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira and later worked at PepsiCo as a national environmental coordinator, where he received a Best Practices Award.
He founded Timeplast in 2013 and filed his first U.S. patent application in 2014, for a composition for the degradation of plastic. Timeplast makes time-programmable, water-soluble materials, including the TimeMass line of functional 3D printing filaments. String Cubed, an analog computing company, works on programming matter so that everyday objects can sense, decide and act without electronics. It designs those filaments and the Bloominite seed pod.
Rendon is the named inventor on eight granted U.S. patents. His work has been featured on CNN en Español and covered by Tom's Hardware, and Timeplast had a joint development relationship with Nestlé Waters North America on its depolymerization technology.
Patents
Eight granted U.S. patents
- US 9,181,412Composition for the degradation of plastic2015
- US 10,947,332Copolymer with programmable water solubility2021
- US 10,954,354Upcycling process for unsorted waste stream2021
- US 11,180,618Process of transforming a plastic extrusion system into a dynamic depolymerization reactor2021
- US 11,639,424Process of transforming a plastic extrusion system into a dynamic depolymerization reactor2023
- US 11,760,859Upcycling process for unsorted waste stream2023
- US 11,851,535Copolymer with programmable water solubility2023
- US 12,564,1425 dimensional analog-automated object to grow seeds without human intervention in any environment2026