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It's Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch

So many of us dream when we re kids of coming up with a really cool invention. Not many of us realize that dream. How do you turn a great idea into a product that could change the world And how do you make money from new inventions and technologies Stephanie s guests on this edition of Out to Lunch have some insight into those areas. By day, John Pojman is a chemistry professor at LSU. By night, he s an inventor, who s created a remarkable product that is taking the art and industrial worlds by storm. It s a clay or putty that uses polymer reactions requires no mixing, doesn t dry out and hardens only when users want it to. In 2013, John created Pojman Polymer Products to sell his great invention, and in the years since he has sold his 3P Quick Cure Clay to art and industrial users around the world. Darcy Klug is chairman of Red Hawk Holdings Corp., which is based at the LSU Business and Technology Center and has several companies under its corporate umbrella including one that is making some of the coolest medical technology you can image like a gizmo that destroys and disposes of hypodermic needles. Prior to founding Red Hawk, Darcy worked in the energy industry. He was an executive at OMNI Energy Services and also was involved in private investment. Photos at Mansurs on the Boulevard by Ken Stewart.

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