About us
Our mission
Our goal is to make your cookware more sustainable and better by repairing it and giving it a new coating.
Studying cycles
Our story
Sustainability starts in the mind and often ends in the kitchen. During my autumn break in 2020, while still training as an environmental engineer, I attended the “Innosuisse Business Concepts” course. There I learned that alarming numbers of old frying pans are thrown away for no reason and scrapped at a high energy cost. A first business model was sketched out.
After several prototypes and collections from kitchens and recycling centres, the first series of recoated pans went on pre-sale in spring 2022. With success: the response to the idea and the quality of the coating was overwhelming. Since then, RePan has been championing the recoating of frying pans, true to the motto: “It doesn’t have to be this way.”
The founder
Dominic S. Müller
Energy and environmental engineer
As a passionate rösti cook and young entrepreneur, you need good pans. Dominic learned to look at resources in large systems – including the pan in everyone’s kitchen. With RePan, that knowledge is now being put into practice:
“The principle of the circular economy can be applied to so many things: to the quality of the product, in life and for the environment.”
The team
Rebeca Fernandez
Customer service & administration
Lorenzina Müller Ludäscher
Accounting
Markus Betschart
Hospitality sales consulting
Masum Bilah
Webmaster
Lionel Thomas
Hospitality sales consulting
Implementation partner: Brühlgut Foundation
Metalworking and shipping logistics in the supplementary labour market
Brühlgut helps people back into the labour market. For the people working there, a RePan order means meaningful, challenging work – and knowing that they are making someone happy who will cook with that pan. More on this under Our production.
Advisors
Gerd Winter
PM seminar leader & military engineer, retired
Matthias Keller
Executive Director Operational Excellence, Novartis
Daniel Rohrer
Circular brand and product development, Cirkel
Ralph Schmidhalter
Innovation mentor, Innosuisse
Tino Köhler
Growth consultant, Genisuisse
Partners
OST is researching new coating methods at its Institute for Product Design, Development and Construction.
RePan is a spin-off of FHNW, which subsequently carried out a scientific market study for RePan.
RePan was developed in the funded M2 and M3 business model courses and received an Innocheck for academic development in 2022.
The foundation supported the launch of RePan with CHF 10,000.
The Sostenuto Foundation sponsored the first-place prize money of the Circular Economy Transition 2022.
The RePan founder won first place as a student entrepreneur in 2022. The prize money was funded by UBS.
Three bachelor’s and two master’s students developed reusable shipping packaging for RePan in the 22/23 semester.
Reusable box
The most convenient way to recoat
We send you a prepaid reusable box. Fill it with everything that needs recoating and simply leave the box at your front door.
Request a box