New Materials Startups

MPJ Group produces aluminium and brass components for automotive, water, gas, heating, and refrigeration applications through vertically integrated manufacturing, including precision forging and machining. It comprises Metalprint (Italy) and Jebco (Canada) and serves industrial and automotive customers.

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Metastable Materials recycles lithium-ion batteries end-to-end using its Integrated Carbothermal Reduction process, which recovers metals without chemicals or energy-intensive methods. It sells recovered precious metals in standard commodity forms and provides heat- and fire-resistant packaging for safe battery-waste logistics.

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Metshape uses Lithography-based Metal Manufacturing (LMM), a sinter-based additive manufacturing technology, to produce high-accuracy complex micro metal parts. It provides services from product development and prototyping through to full-scale series production for companies adopting additive manufacturing.

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MFG Chemical is a custom and toll chemical manufacturer that collaborates with customers on projects from ideation through commercialization, offering lab synthesis, pilot plant proof-of-concept, and a range of production reactor types. It serves businesses needing specialty chemical research, engineering, and process development.

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MGO Systems makes prefabricated C3 Engineered Wall Systems and C3 Fireboard, building materials manufactured to client specifications for construction projects. The products are marketed on fire resistance, structural performance, water resistance, and sustainability, with a sales and supply network across North America.

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Microphyt develops natural ingredients derived from microalgae using biomimetic technology at the intersection of life sciences and bio-processes. It produces bio-complexes from adaptive microalgae for health and wellbeing applications.

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Micropore develops CO2-absorbent products based on its solid absorbent technology, serving scuba/rebreather, medical, mine safety, and submarine markets. Its products remove carbon dioxide in confined-space and life-support applications for military, commercial, and recreational users.

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Microporous manufactures and supplies battery separator products for industrial and battery customers on a global basis. The page focuses on the company's customer commitments and does not detail its specific product technology.

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Microtec D&H develops micronization and precision fine-powder production technology, using cryogenic, ambient, and thermodynamic milling and air-classification systems to reduce complex feedstocks — including rubbers, plastics, composites, biomass, and recycled glass — to exact particle specifications. Its patented equipment and tolling services serve agriculture, construction, automotive, electronics, and medical industries, with a waste-to-value focus such as producing Ground Glass Pozzolan for lower-carbon concrete.

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Midwest Bioprocessing Center develops biobased ingredients for the cosmetics and skin care industry, including its FeruliShield hemp-derived ingredient. It focuses on transparent, biobased inputs for clean beauty products.

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Actus Nutrition (Milk Specialties) manufactures whey proteins, milk proteins, casein and caseinate products, along with custom protein, fat and functional nutritional ingredients. It supplies and provides private label solutions to food manufacturers across categories such as sports nutrition, healthy snacking, breakfast cereal, and infant and geriatric nutrition, exporting to over 45 countries.

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Mimica develops Bump, a temperature-sensitive freshness indicator available as a tag or cap that changes texture when food or drinks actually spoil, giving accurate expiry information instead of overly cautious printed dates. It sells the technology to food and drink brands, producers, and retailers to extend shelf life and reduce waste, with potential applications in catering and vaccines.

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Mineração Vale Verde is a mining company developing the Serrote Project in Craíbas, in the Agreste region of Alagoas, Brazil, to produce and sell copper concentrate. It works with local communities through partnerships aimed at long-term social development.

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Ministry of Supply designs performance workwear using engineered fabrics with phase-change materials, moisture-wicking fibers, and wrinkle-recovering, machine-washable weaves. Founded at MIT, the company makes professional apparel such as blazers, pants, polos, and tees intended to combine office dress with activewear mechanics.

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Minviro provides a life cycle assessment (LCA) ecosystem combining LCA software (XYCLE), consultancy, and supply chain data to help companies measure and reduce environmental impact and produce ISO-compliant, regulation-ready reports. It serves companies in raw material and technology sectors managing complex supply chains.

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MFC Co., Ltd. manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and key starting materials, and conducts R&D and mass production in pharmaceuticals and materials. Using high-purity crystallization technology, it develops and supplies Statin-class APIs such as TBFA and TPPBr, focusing on domestic production of imported pharmaceutical ingredients in South Korea.

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Miru develops dynamic glass technology that makes glass responsive to varying light conditions, improving image clarity in wearable devices, enabling autonomous systems and robots to operate in darkness and sunlight, and improving passenger comfort in vehicles and buildings. The company works with partners to commercialize its dynamic glass across multiple industries.

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Mishawaka Sheet Metal is a distributor and fabricator of aluminum, steel, and sheet metal products, offering materials in full coils, cut-to-length, blanked, or with fabricating processes through to assembled products. It also provides drop shipments from mills, forecasting, and cost analysis for customers across the United States and Canada.

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MIWA is a technology company that develops reusable and refillable packaging solutions for FMCG products, aiming to bring reuse into regular shops and other points of sale. It combines packaging design, retail operations, logistics, and data systems while tracking impact measurements.

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Moji Bio applies genetic engineering, computational biology, and artificial intelligence to develop biomanufacturing processes that produce chemical materials and agricultural additives from sustainable feedstocks. It moves these processes from the lab to industrial-scale production in its own plants or with partners.

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Mold-Masters manufactures hot runner systems, temperature controllers, and auxiliary and co-injection systems for plastic injection molding. It serves plastics manufacturers across a range of industries in 100 countries.

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MRP Solutions manufactures plastic closures, caps, lids, and jars for various applications, offering custom colors, liners, and product configurations. All products are manufactured in the United States.

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Molten Salt Solutions develops advanced materials for next-generation nuclear power, including lithium isotope enrichment enabled by proprietary chromatography separation and mass spectrometry technologies. It also produces metal salt syntheses that it presents as offering safety and cost advantages, with separation methods forming its core intellectual property.

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Molyon develops next-generation lithium-sulfur battery technology. The company focuses on advanced energy storage solutions for applications requiring high-performance battery systems.

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