New Materials Startups

7 Steel UK manufactures high-quality steel products, including reinforcing bars, high-yield coils, and wire rods, for use in construction, transport, and energy infrastructure. The company has capacity to produce and deliver 1.2 million tonnes of steel and emphasizes recycling and low-carbon production.

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ABC Industries manufactures industrial ventilation products and industrial textile fabrics, serving mining, tunneling, industrial, and manufacturing markets, including military applications. The company offers standard and custom-designed solutions and sells across North America and internationally.

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Abrasive Technology manufactures custom superabrasive grinding products and coatings for industrial applications. It serves industries including aerospace and defense, industrial manufacturing, medical, and dental worldwide.

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ABYRX develops synthetic, absorbable surgical biomaterials, including a bone hemostat used to stop bleeding on bone surfaces during surgery. Its products are tissue-free and designed to absorb after implantation for use in surgical and orthopedic procedures.

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ACBC Group is a boutique consulting firm offering advisory services, R&D, strategy consulting, supply chain, and marketing services for brands in the fashion, luxury, and lifestyle industries. It focuses on sustainable material research, product innovation, and circular end-of-life solutions.

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Accord Carton is a folding carton packaging manufacturer operating since 1940, handling design, production, and delivery of finished cartons. It serves product brands across a range of industries seeking retail-shelf packaging.

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Accsys uses proprietary acetylation technology to convert fast-growing, sustainably-grown wood into durable, stable, non-toxic building materials backed by warranties of up to 50 years. It manufactures in Europe and North America and distributes its wood building products across more than 25 countries for the construction, design, and manufacturing markets.

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Accufab is a metal fabrication company that produces aluminum, stainless steel, and steel parts, including production, aftermarket, and replacement components, using processes such as laser cutting. It serves the transportation, agricultural, and aerospace industries, working with businesses across Canada and internationally.

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ACE Green Recycling operates a battery recycling technology platform that uses electrified, hydrometallurgical processes to recover materials from lead, LFP, NMC and LTO batteries for electronics, automotive and energy storage industries. It deploys modular recycling plants and licenses its technology to recyclers, refineries, battery OEMs and other partners, with a focus on building domestic battery material supply in the U.S. and greenfield joint ventures internationally.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Acouspin is a Finnish deep-tech company that produces advanced nanofibers using AI-driven, ultrasound-enhanced electrospinning technology, with control over fiber diameter (100–2,000 nm) and layered or gradient structures. It offers nanofiber production as a service or technology licensing to material producers, with pay-per-use or fixed pricing and modular scalable equipment.

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Show Tire develops tire innovation technology, particularly DBCR technology, to improve vehicle comfort and safety for customers and support their driving experience.

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ACT-ion Battery Technologies develops single crystal cathode active materials (CAMs) for lithium-ion batteries using a continuous manufacturing process aimed at improving energy density, durability, and safety. The company targets the next-generation energy storage market and seeks to build a domestic U.S. battery materials supply chain.

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Actinia develops radiation detector materials based on CsPbBr3 (perovskite) semiconductors to improve the resolution and reduce the dose of radiological imaging techniques such as SPECT, CT, and X-ray, with applications in medicine and security. The company commercializes technology first developed at Northwestern University.

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Action Pin is a producer of pine-derived products and ingredients operating a responsible, sustainable business model, and holds B Corp certification. It is a subsidiary of Firmenich.

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Adaptive Waves develops smart coating technology, validated and advanced through NSF SBIR/STTR Phase I and Phase II grants. The company is seeking strategic partners for market intelligence, joint development, and joint-venture agreements in the coatings industry.

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Ada Sand & Gravel supplies construction and landscape aggregates such as road mix and decorative rock to contractors, utilities, municipal and state governments, landscapers, and homeowners. Formed by combining Ada Sand & Gravel and Premier Aggregates, it operates as an independent aggregate supplier serving southwest Idaho.

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AdClean (industrial division AdTech) develops a non-toxic disinfection and hygiene formula that replaces chemicals like chlorine, peracetic acid, quaternary ammonium and caustic soda for industrial pathogen control. It serves food and beverage, animal protein, energy, mining, general industrial and wastewater (RILes) treatment sectors, aiming to improve food safety, reduce costs and lower environmental impact.

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iAM Marketplace is an online marketplace for additive manufacturing, offering materials such as filaments, photopolymers, and powders alongside hardware, accessories, certified pre-owned equipment, and related services and solutions. It incorporates the former iSQUARED shop and serves buyers of 3D printing materials and technologies.

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Adesis provides contract chemistry services, including custom synthesis and process development for complex molecules, high-purity monomers, deuterated compounds, peptides, oligonucleotides, and custom linkers. It serves pharmaceutical, medical device, and specialty research programs, with production facilities in the US and Ireland.

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Adiabatic is developing an electricity-based process for domestic production of critical chemicals. The company operates in the chemicals and materials manufacturing space.

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ADIONICS develops a liquid-liquid Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology based on its patented LLE process and Flionex organic phase, recovering high-purity lithium chloride from brines such as salt flats, geothermal water, production water, and recycled batteries. It serves the mining and battery-recycling sectors supplying lithium for electric vehicles and energy storage.

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Advanced Silicon Group works in nanotechnology, using the tagline "Nanotechnology for Life."

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Advanced Energy Materials develops catalysts and adsorbents for petroleum refining, including hydrodesulfurization catalysts, catalytic adsorbents for ultra-deep desulfurization, desulfurizers for low-hydrogen applications, and fuel upgrading catalysts. Its products serve refinery operations in the oil and gas sector.

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Advanced Enzymes manufactures enzymes for a range of industries including human health and nutrition, animal nutrition, baking, food and grain processing, dairy, textile, and leather processing. The company develops customized enzyme solutions from research through commercial-scale production.

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