Advanced Manufacturing Startups

Materia Bioworks develops MAPS, an AI-powered platform for accelerating product development using bio-based and biodegradable materials. The system helps manufacturers and product developers optimize material formulations and explore sustainable material options to reduce R&D cycles.

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Metinvest is developing a steel production facility in Piombino, Italy with the capacity to produce approximately 2.7 million tonnes of low-carbon hot-rolled steel annually. The project is a brownfield investment at the former Lucchini site in Tuscany, designed to strengthen Metinvest's EU-based flat steel position.

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Material develops HYBRID3D, a proprietary manufacturing platform that produces full-stack batteries in-situ—including anode, cathode, separator, and casing—without molds, enabling batteries to be shaped to fit curves, edges, and voids. The company designs in-house nanomaterial chemistries and current collector-free battery architectures that scale from prototype to production without retooling.

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Material Exchange provides an AI-assisted platform for structuring early-stage sourcing, helping product development, sourcing teams, and T1/T2 suppliers align on cost, compliance, and feasibility before decisions move to development. Its agentic co-pilot, Frank AI, structures briefs, identifies relevant suppliers and materials, and flags gaps in cost or compliance data.

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Materialise provides 3D printing technology, software, and manufacturing services for medical, industrial, and dental applications. The company operates across three business units and serves customers in 21 countries.

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Materia Medica Processing is an Italian pharmaceutical company authorized by the Ministry of Health to distribute and produce cannabis-derived active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for medical use, supplying pharmacies for magistral preparations under medical prescription. Operating GMP laboratories, it imports plant substances and extracts from qualified European suppliers and serves pharmacies, physicians, and patients.

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Matics offers a cloud-based real-time operational intelligence (RtOI) platform, a new generation of manufacturing execution system (MES) that centralizes production floor control and delivers real-time data analytics. It serves factories and manufacturing teams to support data-driven production decisions.

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Matium is an online industrial marketplace for buying and selling plastics, including virgin resins, recycled polymers, engineering plastics, rubber, compounds, and packaging-grade materials. It serves plastics buyers and sellers with tools for listings, auctions, RFQs, market intelligence, credit and financing, freight, and guaranteed transactions.

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Matteo is a CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) mobile and web app that lets maintenance teams create, assign, and track work orders, schedule preventive and predictive maintenance, manage inventory and costs, and generate automated reports. It targets companies looking to reduce maintenance spend, downtime, and energy consumption, and integrates with ERP systems.

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Johnson Matthey is a materials and catalysis company with over 200 years of history in platinum group metals (PGMs). The company operates through core businesses in clean air catalysts for vehicle emission control, PGM services including refining and metal management, clean air solutions for stationary applications, and hydrogen technologies for fuel cells and electrolysers.

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Mauvilac is a paint brand offering products such as interior and exterior wall, ceiling, and specialty coatings, sold through an online shop with store pickup options. It markets a range of colored paints to consumers in Mauritius.

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MAV Unlimited develops volumetric 3D printing technology that manufactures objects in minutes rather than hours by printing the entire object simultaneously instead of layer-by-layer. The company serves manufacturers and producers seeking faster additive manufacturing capabilities.

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Maven builds autonomous working robots that combine strength, dexterity, and physical AI to automate tasks in industrial settings while operating alongside people. The company's first robot targets large manufacturing and logistics organizations.

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Maxcess manufactures and integrates web handling components and solutions for industrial converting and processing lines. The company serves manufacturers across multiple industries by providing customized equipment and optimization services.

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Max Flow Chemicals supplies oilfield production chemicals and salt water disposal (SWD) treatment products, including scale and corrosion inhibitors, H2S and oxygen scavengers, biocides, and paraffin solvents. It provides chemical solutions for oil and gas production and water disposal operations.

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Sunbelt Solomon supplies, designs, maintains, rents, repairs, recycles, and resells power-distribution equipment such as transformers, voltage regulators, reclosers, and switchgear. It serves utilities and industrial power customers through a national service center network offering new and remanufactured equipment.

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Maxlab.io develops and manufactures industrial cameras for imaging applications. The company specializes in sensor technology and electronics for industrial use.

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Max Lasers manufactures fiber laser solutions for industrial manufacturing applications including cutting, welding, cleaning, marking, and cladding. The company serves manufacturers requiring precision laser systems with customizable power and performance specifications.

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Mazlite manufactures the DS10 sensor system that directly images sprays and powders in industrial production environments to enable real-time monitoring, optimization, and process development. The company serves manufacturing operations that need precision characterization of spray and powder processes.

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MBL is a leading manufacturer of wheelchair components and rehabilitation equipment, serving more than 40 countries with both standard products and customized solutions for the rehabilitation and aged care industries.

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Mercedes-Benz develops driver assistance and autonomous driving technologies for consumer vehicles, including systems for speed monitoring, lane detection, obstacle avoidance, parking automation, and conditional autonomous driving capabilities.

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McAvoy manufactures modular buildings for permanent and temporary deployment across education, health, commercial, and pharmaceutical sectors in the UK and Ireland. The company delivers prefabricated facilities using precision manufacturing and offsite construction methods.

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MCG (Mass Customisation Group) is a holding company that produces on-demand, customized products and services built from standardized components, focused on the paper, print, and branded merchandise industry. It bundles equity stakes in companies in this sector, including handwriting-technology firm wunderpen and calendar/print advertising producers Geiger-Notes and kalender.de.

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McNally Industries manufactures and distributes industrial equipment and defense products, including pump systems. The company serves the aerospace and defense markets.

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