Advanced Materials

Founded in 2000, Svenska Aerogel is a Swedish manufacturer of aerogel products and is focused on commercializing its Quartzene® range.

Armacell is a developer and manufacturer of engineered foams and advanced insulation solutions. As part of its offerings, it manufactures ArmaGel, its range of silica aerogel composite blankets.

US-based Aspen Aerogels is the market leader in silica composite aerogel products, founded in 2001. It designs, develops, manufactures, and sells its aerogel blankets.

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Aerobel is a developer and vertically integrated manufacturer of raw materials, including adhesives, foams, and aerogels for system integrators in the building and construction market.

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First established in 2015, Keey Aerogel is a French startup that manufactures aerogel materials from construction and demolition waste.

Cabot is a manufacturer of aerogels and established its manufacturing plant in Frankfurt, Germany in the early 2000s.

Founded in 2019, Aeroshield is an MIT spin-out that is developing and manufacturing monolithic transparent aerogel sheets for applications in thermally insulated windows and doors.

As growing numbers of countries identify critical materials within their economies, the ability to recycle them is becoming increasingly important, especially considering both their economic importance and ongoing supply risks. Sustainability goals rely on growing technology sectors like electric vehicles, which rely on magnets to be manufactured, ultimately meaning sourcing and recycling critical materials is an economic necessity to keep supply chains running.

Victrex is a specialist materials company, developing PEEK and PAEK based polymers for a range of applications. IDTechEx attended a presentation from Victrex at the RSC's PFAS Alternatives Workshop in February 2025.

Aerogel-It is a manufacturer of aerogels with the capability to manufacture inorganic, organic, and bio-aerogels and is based in the Hamburg University of Technology.

Varda Space Industries is a private American space research company headquartered in California and founded in 2021. The company designs, builds, and flies spacecraft to perform pharmaceutical operations in microgravity of low Earth orbit. It is one of a handful of private space companies to have successfully returned an object from low Earth orbit (along with SpaceX and Boeing).

Forecasts from the IDTechEx Research report "Aerogels 2025-2035: Technology, Market, Forecasts"

LG Chem is the largest chemical company in Korea and is a manufacturer of silica composite aerogels since 2024, targeting the industrial insulation and electric vehicle (EV) battery markets.

IDTechEx recently attended the NEPCON 2025 conference and exhibition in Tokyo, Japan on 22nd January 2025. This premium article will focus on sensor technology, providing insights from the wearable expo, factory innovation week, and smart logistics exhibition tracks.

Sony has developed an edge AI image sensor for image classification, object detection, and semantic image segmentation on endpoint devices. Sony's IMX500 sensor has a stacked sensor structure combining an image sensor with a digital signal processor and dedicated on-chip SRAM to enable high-speed edge AI processing. IDTechEx spoke with Hiroki Yamano, Senior Business Planner at Sony Semiconductor Solutions, at NEPCON Japan 2025.

Quantum computing is growing closer to realizing its full potential, pipe dreams have become tangible five-year plans, and more and more players are earning their own money for the first time. Finally, time will pass quicker than many appreciate in the years ahead - don't blink and miss the quantum computing market grow up, and the chance to leverage its disruptive potential at maturity.

"Forever chemicals", the colloquial term for the family of chemicals known as PFAS, is coming under increasing regulatory pressure globally as concerns over the negative effects of PFAS on human health and the environment are mounting. In this short video, IDTechEx Principal Technology Analyst Sona Dadhania talks through what "forever chemicals" are and why they are having such a global impact.