Start-ups Portfolio

EIT RawMaterials supports the following start-ups

Metalshub

Germany

Creating transparent and liquid digital market for 3D printing metal powders

Metalshub provides a digital marketplace for metallic raw materials for 3D metals printing helping not only larger consumers but especially SMEs to transparently source metals at competitive prices. Additionally, Metalshub can support producers of those materials to access industrial consumers directly without utilising third-party distributors and traders.

METHEORE

Belgium

Machine vision, 3D measurement, quality control, automation, process control

Metheore provides machine vision-based measurement solutions for the mining, mineral, and metal industry. The company’s objective is to enable these sectors in digitalising the techniques of material measurement and consequently optimising their production processes.

Mine On-Line Service

Finland

Value from reduced waste rock dilution and ore loss

Mine On-Line’s mission is to help mining companies improve their mine performance by providing them with more accurate detection of ore and waste rock grade and location. With our innovative products and services we help mining and exploration companies to increase their efficiency through real-time analysis of the most valuable data in mining i.e. data on ore quality and location = VALUE.

Minviro

England

MineLCA – a deeper level to sustainable mining

Minviro has developed MineLCA: a Software as a Service tool that allows (junior) mining companies, engineering firms, investors and other stakeholders to quantify the environmental footprint of one or multiple resource project configurations using Life Cycle Assessment. This will enable the technology metals required for the transition to a low-carbon economy to be sourced at the minimum environmental impact.

MRS (Material Recovery Systems Srl)

Italy

Material recovery system applied to thin-film deposition processes

MRS is a R&D, mechanical design and service company focused on material recovery systems applied to thin-film deposition processes. A series of services is related to the mechanical system consisting in maintenance of the system and recovery of the wasted materials collected on the blades.

MUON SOLUTIONS OY

Finland

Cross-disciplinary high-tech engineering, manufacturing and consulting company

Muon solution is using technology to detect cosmic-ray muon radiation in various services for mineral exploration.

Nano Control

Sweden

Cleaning air and recycle metal dust in the mining industry

Nano Control solution will minimise the use of filters and dramatically decrease the cost for air cleaning.

Nanopow

Norway

Transformation of silicon nano powder into Li-Ion batteries and cells

NanoPow is based on 20 years of research and experience. The start-up has developed an innovative and proprietary process to produce the next generation silicon nano-powder. NanoPow’s technology enables us to produce high quality crystalline silicon nano-powder at lower process costs compared to conventional methods. The innovation secures high quality, low cost silicon nano-powder supply available to support state of the art technologies.

NITREM

Sweden

Nitrogen removal

The NITREM service involves the construction of a low-cost bioreactor which removes nitrogen from waste rock leachate. The service can be implemented by operations within the mining and quarrying industries where nitrogen leaching is an issue.