Our Purpose is to deliver the world’s most advanced and efficient wire - enabling clean, reliable and abundant power for humanity. We’re developing technology that will address some of the world’s greatest challenges, and we drive forward each day on our mission of positive impact for generations to come.
We invite you to learn more about MetOx, and connect with us if you’d like to join us on our journey.
112 years in the making
Superconductivity is not new. We’re well over a century into the quest to understand, create, control and build using its extraordinary properties, and we’re just getting started.
The Evolution of HTS wire
Our Development Path
Early testing at MetOx
research & Development
It began with research, and now with some of the world’s most sophisticated engineering and technology partners, the development continues today. We innovate and challenge assumptions daily. We design with new materials, compounds, flow rates, measurement, data and analytics to take the technology further.
Testing and Refining
Thousands of tests, hundreds of thousands of data points, and incremental innovation in every run. Our world leading knowledge and expertise was built day by day, and run by run.
Early stage development of MOCVD
MetOx R&D pilot line and early technology team
MetOx HTS wire in reel-to-reel production
Designing and Engineering for scale
Exceptional design isn’t perfected in a vacuum. MetOx success arises from the openness and dedication of researchers, technical advisors, engineering partners, investors, industry, and friends.
Building for the future
The launch of our first large scale commercial line in 2023 will mark a defining moment for MetOx, and HTS in the world.
History will be made in the years to come. We are thrilled to have the extraordinary opportunity to play a part in writing the story of Wiring the World for Net Zero.
MetOx Line 1 under construction in Houston, Texas
A portion of the MetOx team in early 2023 at the kickoff of new facility construction
The beginning
Innovation is in our DNA
Our co-founders became interested in superconductors at a time of major advances in their science. The 1990s were the frontier of science and technology of high temperature superconductivity (HTS) and physics, and the founders knew early on that they were onto something special.
MetOx’s superconductor technology is derived from the research of Dr. Ignatiev, co-Founder and standing CSO of MetOx. As professor of physics and materials science at the University of Houston, Alex had conducted extensive research in advanced thin film deposition technologies. With the discovery of YBCO HTS by Professor Paul Chu at the University of Houston, Alex investigated the deposition of YBCO thin films on a tape substrate with performance, economy and ease of scale-up in mind.
Over the years that followed...
By the mid-late 2000’s, there was already a steadily growing awareness of the changes in climate, growing urban populations, an aging grid, need for new forms of cleaner and more reliable energy, and already increasing political forces moving to affect change.
The team took on the challenge to invest and build on the science, and use the properties of superconductivity to develop a wire that could transmit much more power without resistance or loss. This research became the foundation for our progress, and our continued innovation to manufacture HTS wire at higher performance, quality, and most critically - uniformity at scale.