A nano-materials foundry,
built on a global science bench.
NEW DELHI · IND
SPI Industries didn't begin as a company. It began as a decade of work translating laboratory breakthroughs into shipped industrial product — across cathodes, thermal films, surface coatings and combustion additives. In 2024 it was incorporated as a foundry.
We pair nano-materials science with line-side engineering. We co-develop the formulation, qualify it inside the partner's existing process, and hand back hardware that ships in their product — at lower dose, higher yield, and inside their compliance envelope. Programs are now in market with Magppie and Grafillium.
A decade in the making.
From a single founder's research practice to a foundry shipping co-developed programs with industrial partners.
- 201401 / 05
Origin.
Founder Sushanth Paatnaik begins a decade of work at the intersection of nano-materials and industrial energy — the first of six Indian Presidential awards for innovation lands the same year.
- 201802 / 05
First industrial pilots.
Early formulations move from the bench into partner production lines — cathode chemistries, thermal interface films and surface coatings qualified inside live manufacturing flow.
- 202103 / 05
Recognition.
TED India keynote on the applied empathy of materials science. Featured by MIT Technology Review as a Materials Innovator. Patent portfolio crosses double digits across four ventures.
- 202404 / 05
SPI Industries founded.
The foundry is incorporated in Bhubaneswar as a dedicated contract R&D house — built to take real industrial briefs from real plant floors and ship qualified hardware back into them.
- 202505 / 05
Programs in market.
Co-developed nano-material programs deploy with named partners — Magppie wellness stone kitchens, Grafillium Ignitron-D diesel additive and Grafillium Coalorix coal combustion improver.
A global science bench.
SPI Industries works with top-class scientists drawn from the world's most renowned research institutes. Our bench includes materials chemists, surface engineers, combustion specialists and characterisation leads — most with a decade or more of post-doctoral and industrial R&D experience.
Each program is staffed against the partner's specific brief — formulation, line-side qualification and characterisation handled by the discipline that fits, not by a fixed team.
- IISER BHOPAL
- ISM DHANBAD
- IISC BANGALORE
- IIT DELHI
- NISER BHUBANESWAR
Representative — full bench disclosed under NDA.
Sushanth Paatnaik.
"The most interesting materials problems on Earth aren't sitting in a journal — they're sitting on a plant floor, in the head of a process engineer who never gets to talk to a materials scientist."
A six-time Indian Presidential awardee for innovation in energy and materials. Featured by MIT Technology Review. TED India speaker. Over fifty patents granted across four deep-tech ventures over a decade — translating laboratory breakthroughs into shipped industrial product. Now founder and principal investigator at SPI Industries.
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