One of the beneficiaries, Margaretha Ubels, CEO of Special Learning Materials, expressed her excitement over the enormous benefits the partnership will bring. She said:

“We are in the process of developing a product line made from recycled plastic, which will enable us to manufacture 3D products. The software donation from Autodesk perfectly fits in with this. It facilitates product design including creation of moulds for the casting of product parts. With this software we can create MVPs and prototypes, test them, and easily modify where needed. The software will also enable us to offer affordable mould making services to small plastic recycling businesses who now are faced with the high cost of foreign-made moulds”.

GCIC is a pioneering business incubator with the mission to develop and support an exceptional set of transformational ventures and entrepreneurs who are pioneering adaptive and mitigating solutions for climate change issues in Ghana. The Centre provides premium business advisory and business mentoring services, technical support in the development, prototyping and testing of their innovation, as well as financial Proof of Concept grants to qualifying SMEs within our incubator.