The defense industrial base runs on materials that are mostly processed somewhere else. NexGen Materials develops lower-cost, domestic processing routes for antimony, iodine, titanium and lithium.
Newly enforced executive orders require businesses in federal supply chains to buy non-Chinese-sourced materials. Primes need qualified domestic alternatives.
Domestic critical-materials processing is now a national priority, and public and private investment are lining up behind it.
Digital-twin simulation lets us test process routes in minutes instead of months, so new capacity reaches production faster and cheaper.
Flame retardants are antimony's largest use by volume, and the U.S. Army depends on them. NexGen's hybrid blend, built on a Specialized Nanotube input, delivers similar performance at a fraction of the cost of opening new mines.
Iodine is emerging as a solid-state alternative to xenon for satellite electric propulsion — denser, safer to store and launch-ready without pad fueling. At today's prices it's hard to justify. NexGen is working to cut the cost of producing iodine by at least two-thirds.
Airframes, armor and engines run on titanium, and the major defense primes are exposed to sponge supply pinch points. NexGen is developing lower-energy processing routes to put domestic titanium back in reach.
Beyond batteries, lithium underpins naval reactor chemistry and radiation detection, and its enriched isotopes are controlled by Russia and China. NexGen DLE extracts lithium from clays and brines with almost no fresh water.
NexGen works where Defense Tech, Critical Minerals, Energy Tech and Materials Processing overlap. We connect domestic resources, proven process technology and capital, then build the plants that turn them into qualified material.
Primes, suppliers, program offices and investors: tell us which material matters to you and we'll follow up.
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