Busch: Saronic bought most available Louisiana aluminum for Marauder
Doug Busch · Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III · Sep 10, 2026 · at 14:24
Doug Busch, co-founder and COO of autonomous shipbuilder Saronic, describes localized raw-material supply chain constraints faced during vessel manufacturing.
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“For example, we wound up buying out a vast majority of the aluminum in the Louisiana area where we've been built with Marauder.”
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