About ARC Energy
The Advanced RenewableEnergy Company, LLC (ARC Energy), was founded in 2007 to enable commercialization of cutting edge solid state lighting technologies. ARC Energy is developing highly automated turn-key sapphire crystal growth and processing equipment to support rapid advancement of the LED cost reduction. Sapphire is used as a substrate material to make LEDs.
A privately held company, ARC Energy is expanding its workforce at a rapid pace to meet the demands of our products worldwide. We have shipped equipment to Asia, and have large new orders to fulfill. Initial funding for the start-up of the company came from private funds of Renu and Kedar Gupta. Citizens Bank of New Hampshire has been supporting our development efforts from the beginning.
ARC Energy is a New Hampshire manufacturing company with strong engineering, equipment, and process development skills. We are true entrepreneurs with new ideas being developed all the time.
For every job ARC Energy creates, we are creating more jobs in the US manufacturing work force to fabricate our parts and subsystems. We assemble equipment in our Nashua, NH facility and export the equipment world-wide.
Management Team
Dr. Kedar Gupta -- Co-Founder, CEO
- Co-founder and former CEO of GT Solar. GT Solar went public with $2.3B Market Capitalization (NASDAQ: SOLR).
- VP & GM, System Equipment Division, Ferrofluidics Corporation
- Board Member, Suniva, NH High Tech Council, SBDC
Dr. Rick Schwerdtfeger -- Co-Founder, CTO
- 20+ experience in developing large diameter crystal growth process and equipment
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Saint Gobain Crystals