New Materials Startups

AMufacture is a UK contract manufacturer offering HP Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) 3D printing, assembly, and finishing services, with design optimisation, part traceability, and a digital warehouse for reordering. It serves the marine, defence, automotive, and medical sectors and uses recycled polymer in its production process.

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Amwoodo makes bamboo-based consumer and industrial products as alternatives to plastic, including personal care items, hospitality amenities, engineered bamboo, bamboo polymer composites, and bamboo veneers. It targets eco-conscious consumers and businesses such as hotels seeking sustainable materials and goods.

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AnalytiChem manufactures and distributes laboratory chemicals and reference materials, including certified reference materials, elemental and organic standards, prepared culture media, high-purity acids, and instrument consumables. It serves scientists and laboratories across the mining, petroleum, environmental, food, and life sciences industries.

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Ananas Anam converts waste pineapple leaves into eco-friendly textiles, sold as an alternative to traditional materials for the fashion industry. Its material has been used by brands such as Nike, Hugo Boss, Zara, and Carolina Herrera.

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Anferra is a Sweden-based startup that develops processes to convert waste into valuable resources across multiple industries, advancing circular economy practices.

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Angirus makes Wricks, construction bricks manufactured entirely from recycled waste material including 20% plastic waste, positioned as lighter, stronger, and more waterproof than conventional red clay bricks. The product targets the construction sector as a sustainable building material.

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Anomaly develops functional ingredients through advanced fermentation, engineering microbes to convert simple sugars into ingredients for nutrition, crop protection, and personal care. It aims to replace extraction-based ingredient supply chains with on-demand biomanufacturing.

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Anvigen develops biodegradable polymer-based microcapsules that can encapsulate chemical additives, bacteria, pheromones, and fertilizers after synthesis. Its microencapsulation technology targets agricultural applications such as crop growth, pest control, and improved fertilizer efficiency, and it offers custom-formulated products for customers.

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ANVIS designs, develops and manufactures anti-vibration and NVH (noise, vibration, harshness) parts for the railway, automotive and shipbuilding industries, serving high-speed trains, locomotives, metros, trams, automotive OEMs and aftermarket, and ships and submarines. It also produces billiard cushions under its own brand using its anti-vibration know-how.

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AOC Metal Works provides precision sheet metal design, fabrication, high-volume stamping, powder and porcelain coating, welding, and assembly, working with carbon steel, stainless steel, high nickel alloys, and aluminum. It also designs and fabricates custom returnable steel racking and packaging for housing and transferring component parts used in larger assembled products.

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AOTCO brings together six specialized finishing companies to provide metal finishing services including precision plating, anodizing, and passivation. It supports customers from R&D prototyping through high-volume production of mission-critical parts.

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apaiser designs and handcrafts luxury stone bathware — including baths, basins, vanities and accessories — from its own reclaimed-marble material, apaiserMarble®. The Australian-owned brand serves designers, hotels, resorts and private residences globally, with an atelier in Thailand and sales offices across several international cities.

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Aplantex operates a modular green biotechnology platform that uses proprietary photosynthetic "phytoreplicators" to locally produce plant biomass and extract active plant compounds such as polyphenols with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and anti-aging properties. It supplies certified molecules to the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and natural health industries.

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Apollo Power develops and manufactures flexible, high-efficiency solar cells and film for applications such as commercial and industrial solar roofs, embedded automotive solar, heavy-duty vehicle and RV kits, and portable energy products. Based in Israel and traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, it operates a large flexible solar panel factory and partners with automotive and industrial companies.

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Applied Quantum Materials designs and manufactures silicon, carbon, and germanium nanomaterials and their chemical precursors for advanced technology applications. The company customizes nanomaterial properties for use in batteries, displays, sensing, photovoltaics, and biological imaging.

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Applied Technical Services (ATS) provides testing and analysis, inspection, calibration, engineering, forensics, and training services to help clients meet quality, safety, and reliability standards across their products and systems. The company serves industrial and commercial clients and operates as part of SGS, a testing, inspection, and certification firm.

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Aqdot is a supramolecular chemistry (chem-tech) company that develops proprietary AqFresh air quality and odour/VOC-elimination technology based on encapsulation. It supplies these solutions to multinational customers across hygiene, automotive, and home and personal care markets to formulate sustainable consumer products.

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Arbion Industries produces biocarbon through electric-powered pyrolysis technology for industrial applications. The company operates an early-stage production facility in Norway with a capacity of 2,500 tons annually, serving established industrial partners and developing new market relationships.

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Archean uses AI to design new materials backwards from the industrial systems that will use them, then synthesizes and tests those materials in its own labs to prove real-world performance before bringing them to market with partners. It targets applications in energy, computing, and clean water, with scientific roots in metal-organic frameworks and computational materials research at UC Berkeley.

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Archroma is a global specialty chemicals provider offering color and performance solutions for branded and performance textiles, packaging and paper, and coatings, adhesives and sealants markets. Its chemistries cover textile pretreatment, dyeing, printing and finishing, as well as packaging applications for food, e-commerce, and construction materials, with a stated focus on sustainability.

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Arclin is a materials and chemicals company producing performance polymers, engineered building solutions, and specialty fibers for construction, mining, agriculture, and defense applications. The company manufactures branded products including fire-resistant panels, aramid fibers, coatings, and fertilizers serving industrial and protective equipment markets.

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Ari develops a powder-based, waterless manufacturing process for cosmetic products designed to reduce carbon emissions, plastic, and water consumption in the beauty supply chain. The company operates vertically integrated manufacturing units with proprietary production machinery and in-house laboratory formulation development.

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Arigna Group converts agricultural byproducts into biochar using advanced pyrolysis technology for soil regeneration and carbon sequestration. The company serves horticulturists and operates one of Europe's largest biochar production facilities.

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Arisdyne provides process technologies for industrial applications, working with process engineers and plant managers to improve outcomes in areas such as biodiesel production, wastewater and biogas treatment, and graphene manufacturing. Its solutions aim to reduce catalyst consumption, increase throughput, boost methane production, and produce thin graphene platelets.

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