New Materials Startups

SNOW produces lab-grown diamonds using atomic-level crafting methods. The site presents the diamonds as a manufactured product available for wholesale purchase.

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Snyder Industries manufactures durable engineered container solutions, including plastic, steel, and composite tanks, IBCs, material handling bins, pallets, and waste disposal containers. Its products serve agriculture, water, industrial chemical, lubricant, and hazardous material handling applications across a range of industries.

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Soane Materials develops plant-based, biodegradable materials and licenses the associated IP to consumer product manufacturers as replacements for plastics and petrochemicals. Its product lines cover nanofibrillated/microfibrillated cellulose processing, cleaning products, packaging, and absorbent products such as diapers and sanitary items.

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Soelect develops proprietary battery materials, including its LiX technology and a solid electrolyte membrane, aiming to commercialize and manufacture battery products domestically and reduce U.S. reliance on China for battery materials. The company is scaling from lab to pilot-line production of these components.

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Sofi develops ultra-fine particle separation and filtration technology to address industrial water challenges and mineral recovery. It serves the power, mining, and metals industries through a build-own-operate, Sofi-as-a-Service model.

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SoftChemical (에스켐) manufactures engineered/artificial marble and related chips for interior construction materials, supplying domestic and overseas markets. Its Pantheon-branded products are used for kitchen countertops, interior and exterior finishing, and bathroom surfaces, with collections including 'Marble Chip' and 'Pantheon'.

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Soitec designs and manufactures semiconductor materials and solutions used for connectivity and computing from the edge to the cloud, serving the global semiconductor industry. The company operates manufacturing sites and sales offices worldwide, headquartered in Bernin, France.

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Solactron develops thin-film solar photovoltaic modules built on glass substrates using a proprietary "Thin Film 2.0" process based on tunable Chalcopyrite compound chemistry, targeting high efficiency and low cost at gigawatt scale. The company aims to manufacture scalable solar PV solutions for the renewable energy market.

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Solarferm produces fermentation-grade sugar feedstock by combining carbon dioxide, hydrogen, engineered chemistry, and engineered microorganisms in a continuous thermocatalytic and electrochemical process that requires no crops or solid feedstocks. It supplies and licenses this "programmable sugar" technology to biomanufacturing customers across food, ingredients, materials, chemicals, fragrances, and pharmaceuticals.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Solgraph produces battery-grade crystalline graphite through direct solar pyrolysis of hydrocarbon gas, a process developed from UCLA research that captures graphitic carbon without CO2 emissions. Its technology targets the U.S. energy storage and battery supply chain, where battery-grade graphite is almost entirely imported.

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Sonoro Gold is a junior gold exploration and development company advancing toward production, with mining properties in Sonora, Mexico. Its flagship Cerro Caliche project is in final permitting for an open-pit, heap leach operation, and it also holds the San Marcial exploration project.

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SOPHIM is a family-owned manufacturer of natural cosmetic ingredients derived mainly from olive-based plant resources, including olive-derived squalane, emollients, texturizing agents, oils, butters, and exfoliants. It supplies cosmetic brands and laboratories with ingredients for durable, certifiable (COSMOS, BIO) formulations, using a circular, integrated production model.

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Sophomer s.r.o. is an academic startup developing SophoMer™ F10, a fully synthetic polymer designed to replace bovine serum albumin as a nonspecific binding blocker in immunochemical assays. It targets developers of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) immunology diagnostics, combining immunoassay and polymer chemistry expertise.

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SOQUIMAT develops bio-based and nanotech additives (marketed as PHENOX) for high-performance protective coatings and paints, offering an alternative to chromate and heavy-metal additives by upcycling industrial waste and by-products. It also produces a coating product, T-COAT, powered by its additives, serving the paint and surface-protection industry.

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Sortile develops technology for textile identification and sortation to increase textile diversion and reduce the amount of textiles sent to landfill. It serves the textile recycling and waste management industry.

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Søuld makes acoustic panels and design solutions from eelgrass, a natural carbon-binding material gathered along the Danish coast, for use in building interiors. The products offer acoustic performance and fire classification while storing captured carbon within the material.

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The Spandex Group is a supplier to the visual communications market, developing, manufacturing and distributing materials, self-adhesive films, digitally printable textiles and related services. It serves sign-making, graphics, automotive, architectural, digital printing, soft signage, apparel and décor professionals across Europe, Australia and the US through its Spandex, Berger Textiles and Eikon businesses.

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Sur-Seal manufactures precision die-cut, molded, formed, and extruded components using materials such as rubber, silicone, foam, film, and textiles, and provides engineering, prototyping, sourcing, and testing services. It serves manufacturers across industries including healthcare, automotive, and acoustic insulation, and is a 3M Preferred Converter with AS9100 and ISO9001 certifications.

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Spectroplast is a manufacturer that 3D-prints parts from true silicone using additive manufacturing, offering its patented TrueSil biocompatible, medical-grade materials in a Shore 20A–60A range. It serves customers needing custom silicone parts through on-demand printing, application engineering consultations, and pre-validated DLP resins, with production volumes from 1 to several thousand units.

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Spectrum Disinfection is a development-stage chemistry company developing a patented chlorine dioxide technology that stabilizes an industrial disinfectant for consumer and commercial use. Its first surface disinfectant is pending EPA approval, with additional disinfection products planned for industrial and commercial markets.

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Speed Care Mineral is a German manufacturer of clay-based hemostatic wound care products, including its SpeedM® product used for blood stanching. It supplies wound care products, including to the German Armed Forces.

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Speira is a European aluminium rolling and recycling company operating eleven production and recycling sites in Germany and Norway, recycling up to 970,000 tons of aluminium and producing around one million tons of rolled products annually. It supplies rolled aluminium products to companies in the automotive, packaging, printing, engineering, and building and construction sectors.

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SPGPrints develops rotary screen and digital printing systems and inks for textile, label, and industrial applications, including specialty uses such as banknotes and diagnostic test strips. It sells hardware, consumables, and total printing solutions to manufacturers worldwide, and launched the industry's first digital textile printer in 1991.

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The page for Sphere Photonics lists laser, optics, and photonics conferences and exhibitions, indicating a company operating in the photonics/laser sector. The content is limited to an events listing and provides no direct description of the company's products or services.

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