Air purifying company to move manufacturing to Lakeland

San Francisco air purification company with ties to Lakeland plans to open its first manufacturing facility here. The company, named Molekule, will initially have dozens of employees at a facility on Anchuca Drive west of Lakeland Linder International Airport. From a blog post written by Dilip Goswami, CEO and co-founder of Molekule, it sounds as if the company plans to grow.
We’ll use our new PECO Zero factory to build out our innovation team to create a hub for research, development and manufacturing, Goswami wrote. With our strong local ties, we’re committed to bringing economic growth to the state and expect to create hundreds of job opportunities for Florida residents, which will range from manufacturing to R&D (research and development) for our patented PECO technology and other material science advancements.
Sean Malott, president of Central Florida Development Council, said the company was derived from a program that helped startups at the University of South Florida. From there it grew in Silicon Valley. It’s research and development team is already located at USF.