17 Jun 2025

Billion Dollar Carbon Nanotube Market Continues to Grow
Following decades of hype and false dawns, nanocarbons are now beginning to see substantial market adoption and growth. This article delves into the continued growth of the carbon nanotube market, which is set to exceed $1.25 billion by 20235. IDTechEx assesses the key applications driving the growth, and the leading players poised to take a significant market share.
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17 Jun 2025

BESTGRAPHENE
BESTGRAPHENE is a Korean company, producing functionalized graphene, graphene additives, and conductive ink/paste. IDTechEx spoke with Seongmin Chin (CEO).
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17 Jun 2025

24M: Semi-Solid Electrodes
24M is a spin-out from MIT that develops and produces semi-solid binder-free cells. This profile will briefly cover the company's technology and its implications on binders (and specifically PFAS binders) for Li-ion cells.
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16 Jun 2025

Hosokawa Alpine
Hosokawa Alpine is a manufacturer of machines and systems for powder and particle processing and blown film technology based in Germany. Hosokawa Alpine supplies most of the world's jet milling equipment for rare earth magnet production. IDTechEx spoke with Yener Bicakci, sales manager at Hosokawa Alpine at the Metal and Critical Raw Material Exhibition 2025 in Frankfurt, Germany. This interview focuses on Hosokawa's innovations in jet milling for NdFeB magnet manufacturing.
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16 Jun 2025

JL Mag
JL MAG is one of the world's largest manufacturers of neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) permanent magnets, headquartered in Ganzhou, China. JL MAG produce rare earth permanent magnet products for customers in automotive, energy, industrial, and consumer electronics markets. IDTechEx spoke with Jeff Reyes, business development manager at JL MAG Europe at the Metal and Critical Raw Material Exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany.
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16 Jun 2025

Solar Materials
Solar Materials GmbH is a silicon photovoltaic (PV) panel recycler founded in June 2021 and based in Magdeburg, Germany. Solar Materials uses a patented thermal mechanical recycling technology to recover PV glass, silicon, silver, and aluminium from end-of-life solar panels. IDTechEx spoke with Franziska Ruff, business development manager at the Metal and Critical Raw Material Exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany in June 2025.
16 Jun 2025

New Webinar: Materials & Applications for Gas Separation Membranes
Webinar: Emerging Materials and Decarbonization Applications for Gas Separation Membranes
Presenter: Eve Pope, Senior Technology Analyst, IDTechEx
Date: Tuesday 24 June
Choose your preferred time zone - the webinar runs three times during the day.
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16 Jun 2025

Cyclic Materials
Cyclic Materials is a rare earth magnet recycler founded in 2021 and based in Ontario, Canada. Cyclic Materials recovers rare earth oxides from end-of-life magnets using patented Mag-Cycle™and REEPure™ technologies - a hydrometallurgical extraction process. Rare earth magnets are sourced from manufacturing scrap (swarf), EV motors, wind turbine generators, and electronics waste. IDTechEx spoke with Patrick Nee, Co-Founder and SVP of Strategic Partnerships at the E-Waste, Metal, Battery Recycling show in Frankfurt, Germany.
12 Jun 2025

IonQ Acquires Oxford Ionics in a Billion-Dollar Deal for Quantum
IDTechEx explores the impact of the US$1 billion acquisition in the quantum computing industry, where two major computing companies, IonQ and Oxford Ionics, have recently signed a deal.
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11 Jun 2025

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech (Qilimanjaro) is a quantum computing company developing analog quantum chips (quantum annealers) and other solutions.
11 Jun 2025

Addressing Tariff Pressures and Labor Costs with Cobots
Faced with rising raw material costs from tariffs, labor shortages, and increasing operational pressures, the automotive and material-handling industries are turning to collaborative robots (cobots) as a flexible, cost-saving solution to boost efficiency, reduce downtime, and remain competitive in a rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape.
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11 Jun 2025

SambaNova Systems
SambaNova Systems is a California-based startup building proprietary AI chips to compete with GPUs. The firm was founded in 2017 with the mission to deliver an enterprise-scale, full-stack AI platform that accelerates the development and deployment of state-of-the-art generative and deep learning workloads. It is known for creating the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU).
10 Jun 2025

Upcoming Webinar: Carbon Nanotubes: On the Path to Commercial Success
Webinar Title: Carbon Nanotubes: On the Path to Commercial Success
Date: Thursday 19 June 2025
Presenter: Dr Conor O'Brien, Senior Technology Analyst, IDTechEx
Choose your preferred time zone - the webinar runs three times during the day.
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10 Jun 2025

Groq
Groq is a California-based fabless chip designer that focuses on designing chips for developers and enterprises to deliver AI inference. Groq is known for designing the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a novel architecture purpose-built to accelerate AI inference.
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10 Jun 2025

Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric is a French multinational specializing in energy management and industrial automation, operating in a variety of sectors, including energy and battery storage, semiconductors, and AI data centers.
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9 Jun 2025

XING Mobility
XING Mobility is based in Taiwan and has developed immersion cooled solutions for EV trucks and BESS technologies. IDTechEx spoke with the company at Smart Energy Week 2025 in Japan.
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6 Jun 2025

Holocene
Holocene is a US-based liquid DAC company. It was recently acquired by Occidental Petroleum.
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6 Jun 2025

Sensirion - advanced sensors for battery management systems
Sensirion is a global developer of sensors and electronic systems. The company has recently begun development of sensors for use in battery management systems, including hydrogen and volatile organic compound sensors.
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6 Jun 2025

Marelli - EIS-capable battery packs
Marelli, a global mobility and automotive systems developer is finishing development of an electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)- capable battery management system.
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6 Jun 2025

PFINDER KG: ArcelorMittal collaboration for EV anti-corrosion coatings
PFINDER KG and ArcelorMittal have collaborated to produce a combination of corrosion protection coatings for EV batteries.