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Biotic Circular Technologies

Biotic Circular Technologies is involved in the development of fully bio-based, biodegradable polymers derived from macroalgae. Its scalable, environmentally friendly process produces PHBV polymers. These materials are designed to fit current production lines and a wide range of applications, contributing to a circular economy by eliminating recycling limits and costs.

Armacell: Recycled PET Foams

Armacell is a global materials company, specializing in the manufacture of flexible elastomeric foams for insulation and engineering. IDTechEx spoke with Tom Berstein, Business Development Manager, at JEC World 2025, surrounding its recyclable foams for wind turbine blade manufacture.

Second-Life EV Batteries: A New Lease of Battery Life

Automotive and battery OEMs are responsible for collecting retired batteries, which is where the second-life battery value chain begins. Recycling processes may see critical raw materials such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel reclaimed by OEMs. However, the already somewhat established relationship between recyclers and manufacturers may prove tricky for repurposing companies to interrupt.

Automotive: The Road to Commercialization of Self-Healing Materials

The automotive industry is often an early adopter of luxury products, where both the increased performance and convenience are selling points to consumers. Self-healing materials can be used in a range of automotive applications, including tires, paints, and coatings. Use cases even extend to asphalt road surfaces, where damage can lead to issues for vehicles and drivers.

Fortescue: Green Iron Technology

Fortescue, the world's fourth largest iron ore producer, is developing a direct electrochemical reduction technology for converting iron ore into green iron that can be used for green steel production.

Radar-Enhanced Safety for Advancing Autonomy

Front and side radars serve distinct yet complementary roles in ADAS, making them essential for autonomous vehicles. IDTechEx explores the latest radar developments and explores autonomy leveling up, with Level 2+ asserting itself within the US and Europe's autonomous vehicle markets.

The Evolution of the EV Battery Cover Towards Composites

IDTechEx discusses the pros and cons of composite EV battery covers, as well as innovations, current market adoption and an outlook for future adoption.

Anode-less Lithium Metal: A Gateway to Maximizing Energy Density

Lithium metal batteries will form a significant portion of next-generation electric vehicle batteries. However, increasingly, lithium metal battery developers are taking the anode-less approach, constructing cells without lithium metal foils at the anode to reduce costs. Anode-less designs are poised to become a primary focus of commercialization for lithium metal battery developers.

Syklo

Syklo is a Finnish circular economy company specializing in innovative waste management solutions and the production of high-quality biocomposites and recycled plastics. Its services include waste reception, processing, and the development of sustainable materials. It plans to build Finland's largest plastic recycling plant in Hyvinkää by autumn 2025, aiming to increase the nation's plastic recycling capacity by up to 50%.

Arkema: Elium Resin

Arkema is a multinational materials company, specialising in the supply of a range of materials for multiple industries, including energy, automotive, sports and health, etc. IDTechEx attended Arkema's stand at JEC World 2025 to find out more about its sustainable materials for the wind energy industry.

Webinar: Understanding the Critical Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Thursday 3 April 2025 - Understanding the Critical Materials in Lithium-Ion Batteries: Trends in Demand, Supply, and Sustainability; An overview of materials in lithium-ion batteries; Critical battery materials demand trends; Trends in battery mineral mining and extraction; Carbon emission profiles of battery raw materials; Global raw materials supply outlooks; The prospects of deep-sea mining

Methane Pyrolysis: Key Players & Updates in Turquoise Hydrogen

This premium article provides an update on methane pyrolysis. This includes more discussion around hydrogen and carbon product applications, business models, and activities of key players.

Demand for HBM to Grow 15-fold by 2035 for HPC and AI, says IDTechEx

Parallel computer architectures, such as those deployed for modern high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, frequently encounter memory bottlenecks that limit performance, known as the 'memory wall'. IDTechEx assesses the key developments and trends in memory and storage technologies, including high-bandwidth memory (HBM), DDR, NAND, and many more.

United Launch Alliance: SMART

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a major provider of rocket launch services. This profile focuses on SMART (Sensible Modular Autonomous Return Technology), which is currently in development and aims to enable the reusability of the Vulcan Centaur's two BE-4 booster engines.

Small Sensors Make Big Waves - IDTechEx Explores Quantum Sensors

Quantum sensors get their name from their ability to measure on a quantum scale the smallest known parts of the universe, including atoms and other tiny particles, some of which were unknown before the introduction of this technology. IDTechEx's report, "Quantum Sensors Market 2025-2045: Technology, Trends, Players, Forecasts" provides an in-depth analysis of the technology by type and application, forecasting the quantum sensor market to reach US$2.2 billion in 2045, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.4%.

Will Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles Boom or Bust in the Next 20 years?

While battery electric vehicles (BEVs) continue to grow in model availability, sales numbers, and available charging infrastructure, the same cannot be said about fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). IDTechEx reviews the on-road fuel cell electric vehicle market and assesses whether passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, buses, and medium and heavy-duty trucks will use fuel cell technology in 20 years.

MIPS Tech LLC

MIPS Tech LLC, headquartered in San Jose, California, specializes in scalable RISC processor IP. MIPS is currently targeting integration at the edge, with physical AI, with RISC-V IP for processors handling sensor input, processors for delivering mixture-of-expert AI model acceleration, and high-performance compute for electrification, industrial automation, and autonomous platforms.

Preferred Computational Chemistry (PFCC)/MATLANTIS: Early 2025 Update

Preferred Computational Chemistry (PFCC)'s MATLANTIS platform uses deep learning to provide universal atomistic simulation at high speed. IDTechEx caught up with PFCC's team at Neo-Functional Materials 2025.

Green Computing Ecosystems: IDTechEx Explores Sustainable Data Centers

Data centers can be likened to an ecosystem of computing facilities that contain many facets required to store and handle data. IDTechEx's latest report, "Sustainability for Data Centers 2025-2035: Green Technologies, Market Forecasts, and Players", unpacks efforts being made in the data center sector towards increased sustainability in response to the rising CO2 emissions from the development of AI.

Cylib

Cylib is a German start-up focused on developing Li-ion battery (LIB) recycling technologies.