What Carbice Corporation does

Carbice Corporation is a private materials company founded in 2011 that manufactures thermal interface materials (TIMs) built on vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays covalently bonded to a thin aluminum backbone with a proprietary conformal nanoscale polymer coating. The company sells three branded product lines — Carbice Pad (industrial), Carbice Space Pad (TRL9-qualified for space), and Carbice Ice Pad (consumer/gaming) — supported by its Carbice Lab engineering services and the proprietary Carbice SIM first-principles simulation software. Carbice serves customers across aerospace and defense, data centers, power systems, automotive, telecommunications, and consumer electronics, with named end-users including NASA, the U.S. Navy, AMD, Dow, Thales Alenia Space, Blue Canyon Technologies (RTX), SWISSto12, Teledyne FLIR, CyberPowerPC, and Noctua.

Carbice operates a hybrid commercial model that combines direct enterprise sales for industrial, aerospace, defense, and government customers with channel partnerships for its consumer Ice Pad line. Industrial and aerospace/defense engagements are quote-based, multi-year, and follow a 14–17 week Carbice Method engagement from discovery through delivery; consumer distribution leverages Noctua as an exclusive retail partner, AMD CPU bundles (Ryzen 7 5800X3D), and pre-applied integration through CyberPowerPC. Revenue derives from hardware sales (Carbice Pad SKUs IP90, IP150, SW, SA; Space Pad; Ice Pad), professional services through Carbice Lab (modeling, small-batch production, ASTM/JEDEC-based testing), joint IP/application licensing with select customers, and government/defense contracts — most recently a multi-million dollar U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research award in April 2026.

The company operates from a 20,000 square foot headquarters and production facility in Atlanta's Lee + White Community — claimed as the world's largest vertically aligned CNT production center — with additional sales presence in Toulouse, France and Silicon Valley, and customer deployments spanning the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The Atlanta facility is AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 certified, and Space Pad has been TRL9-qualified and flying in satellites since 2018, including the first NASA program (MISSEE-10). Technology is protected by 15+ years of patents spanning materials, processes, catalysts, substrates, polymer coatings, and customer-specific joint IP, supplemented by trade-secret-protected Carbice SIM software. Sustainability is positioned through the use of recycled aluminum and waste carbon gas as feedstocks.

Name

Carbice Corporation

Legal name

Carbice Corporation

Website

http://www.carbice.com/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Atlanta-based private materials company developing vertically aligned carbon nanotube thermal interface materials — Carbice Pad, Space Pad, and Ice Pad — for aerospace, defense, data center, power, automotive, and consumer electronics customers including NASA, AMD, Dow, and the U.S. Navy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Thermal Interface Materials

NAICS

Resin and Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing (32521)

SIC

Fabricated Rubber Products, Nec (3060)

akta.pro primary industry

Thermal Management & Heat Dissipation Solutions (TIMs, Lids, Heat Sinks) (HDAHADAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Thermal Interface & Heat Management Materials (TIMs/Phase-Change/Graphite) (HDAHAGAN), Thermal & Acoustic Insulation Textiles (Insulation Felts/Soundproofing) (IMAOADAL)

Keywords

• Thermal interface materials
• Carbon nanotube technology
• Electronics thermal management
• Space-qualified cooling
• Advanced thermal solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Atlanta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales — Carbice Pad (Industrial): One-time and recurring sales of Carbice Pad SKUs (IP90, IP150, SW, SA) to enterprise industrial customers across data centers, power systems, automotive, telecom; pre-cut, customized thermal interface sheets; AS9100D/ISO9001 certified.
2. Hardware Sales — Space Pad (Aerospace & Defense): TRL9-qualified Space Pad sold to aerospace primes and satellite manufacturers; structured/custom variants for large bolted interfaces (e.g., 508 x 355 mm²). Includes structured Space Pad customization services.
3. Hardware Sales — Ice Pad (Consumer): Consumer CPU thermal pads sold via retail channel partners (Noctua exclusive distributor), bundled with AMD CPUs, and pre-applied in CyberPowerPC gaming desktops.
4. Professional Services — Carbice Lab: Fee-based thermal design qualification service including Carbice SIM modeling, small-batch sample production, and ASTM/thermal cycling/TVAC testing. 14–17 week total development cycle (Discovery, Simulations, Testing, Delivery).
5. Joint IP / Application Licensing: Carbice co-develops application IP with customers (Joint IP), limited to specific projects; offers Carbice Pad as lid for SoCs and other application-specific customizations including branding on packaging.
6. Government / Defense Contracts: Multi-million dollar U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research contract for thermal assembly joint technology demonstration and qualification across shipboard, aviation, unmanned and expeditionary domains.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Carbice Corporation manufactures and sells advanced thermal interface materials (TIMs) built on vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays bonded to an aluminum backbone with a proprietary conformal polymer coating. The company sells industrial, space-qualified, and consumer variants of its CNT thermal pads, supported by an in-house Carbice Lab qualification service and proprietary Carbice SIM first-principles thermal simulation software used to predict interface performance within ±10% of thermal-vacuum test results.

Product overview

Carbice Corporation sells a single, vertically integrated technology platform — Carbice® Carbon / Carbice Nanotube Technology (aligned carbon nanotube arrays on an aluminum backbone with a proprietary polymer coating) — and delivers it through a small, modular portfolio of branded thermal interface material (TIM) products plus an attached engineering-services and simulation offering. The flagship industrial product is Carbice® Pad (with the Dow-collaboration variants Carbice® Pad SW and Carbice® Pad SA), the space-qualified product is Carbice® Space Pad®, and the consumer/gaming product is Carbice® Ice Pad® (also sold to DIY builders as the IP90 / NT-CP1 AM5/4 via Noctua). All products are qualified and supported through Carbice® Lab, which uses the proprietary Carbice® SIM simulation tool to model interface performance within ±10% of thermal-vacuum test results, enabling a 'no-compromise, predictable thermal interface' value proposition across data center, power systems, automotive, telecommunications, aerospace, and defense applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Carbice® Pad: Industrial/enterprise carbon nanotube thermal interface material for data center, power systems, telecommunications, and automotive applications. AS9100D & ISO 9001 certified.
• Carbice® Space Pad®
• Carbice® Ice Pad®
• Carbice® Lab
• Carbice® SIM
• Carbice® Pad SW
• Carbice® Pad SA

Products and services

• Carbice Pad High-performance solid thermal interface material built on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes bonded to an aluminum backbone with a proprietary nanoscale polymer coating. AS9100D / ISO 9001:2015 certified for data centers, power systems, automotive, telecom, and aerospace/defense industrial use. Delivers 12 W/mK through-plane and 200-1,300 W/mK in-plane thermal conductivity, with up to 4X better performance than industry-leading carbon pads.
• Carbice Space Pad TRL9-qualified, AS9100D-certified thermal interface material purpose-built for spacecraft and satellite applications. Low-outgassing, radiation- and shock-tested, validated in orbit since 2018 on missions including MISSEE-10 and Blue Canyon Technologies smallsat programs. Offers up to 2X reduction in assembly, integration, and test costs for satellite builds.
• Carbice Ice Pad Peel-and-stick carbon nanotube thermal pad for consumer desktop CPUs, gaming desktops, workstations, and high-powered devices, validated for AMD Ryzen AM5/AM4 sockets. Up to 3.7X better at reducing thermal gradients than graphite pads, RoHS compliant, made from recycled materials.
• Carbice Lab Fee-based thermal qualification service that combines proprietary Carbice SIM modeling software with in-house small-batch sample production and ASTM-standard testing (thermal resistance vs. load, compression vs. load, contact paper mapping, replica thermal resistance, thermal cycling, vacuum/oven-bake). Provides up to 3X faster design time and up to 10X lower cost than alternatives.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 4X better performance than industry-leading carbon pad
• +12 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• NoctuaflagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 June 2026Long-term strategic partnership making Noctua the exclusive retail distributor of Carbice IP90 thermal pads for the DIY PC market. First product NT-CP1 AM5/4 validated for AMD Ryzen AM5/AM4 processors, showcased at Computex 2026 (June 2-5), launching September 2026. Companies will co-develop future products including potentially an Intel-compatible thermal pad.
• AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)flagshipOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 31 May 2026Carbice Ice Pad is bundled with the relaunched 10th Anniversary AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor. First time advanced carbon nanotube CPU cooling technology is available through a mainstream retail CPU provider, giving gamers maintenance-free thermal performance that eliminates the need for periodic repasting.
• U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research / Naval Research LaboratorycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 April 2026Multi-million dollar U.S. Navy contract to demonstrate and qualify Carbice's carbon nanotube-based assembly joint platform as a thermal interface solution for naval deployment. Testing spans shipboard, aviation, unmanned, and expeditionary domains; framework intended to inform broader DoD adoption including Army aviation, ground combat systems, air and missile defense, and C5ISR.
• DarkNXcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 February 2026Strategic partnership to advance reliability and performance across AI data centers including a 300MW campus in Ontario, Canada. Collaboration aims to improve system reliability, energy efficiency, and reduce lifecycle emissions through advanced thermal interface solutions.
• CyberPowerPCcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 12 August 2025CyberPowerPC sells gaming desktop PCs pre-applied with Carbice Ice Pads for CPU cooling, replacing traditional thermal paste. Pre-applied integration makes Carbice available to mainstream PC buyers through custom gaming desktop builds.
• SWISSto12coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 April 2025Partnership to advance next-generation HummingSat small GEO satellites and expand access to geostationary orbit. Collaboration accelerates deployment of SWISSto12's small GEO satellites.
• Tony Fernandez-Stoll (AMD veteran)coreOthers · 25 February 2025AMD veteran Tony Fernandez-Stoll joined Carbice to drive data center market expansion, bringing 30+ years of tech industry experience with two decades in AMD leadership.
• Dow Inc.flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 October 2024Multi-generational strategic partnership to develop thermal interface material (TIM) product solutions combining Dow's silicone expertise with Carbice's carbon nanotube (CNT) technology for high-performance electronics across mobility, industrial, consumer electronics, and semiconductors. Launched at The Battery Show 2024.
• Blue Canyon Technologies (RTX subsidiary)coreTechnology or Integration · 6 February 2024Carbice collaboration with RTX's Blue Canyon Technologies to integrate carbon nanotube thermal management systems into Blue Canyon satellite designs as a key supplier of aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) solutions for critical spacecraft programs.
• Blue Canyon TechnologiescoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024January 2024 partnership to integrate Carbon Nanotube thermal management systems into Blue Canyon Technologies' satellite designs.
• City of Atlanta / Invest AtlantacoreOthers · 13 September 2022Invest Atlanta supported Carbice's new BeltLine-adjacent Lee + White manufacturing facility investment in Atlanta's Historic West End community. Quote from Mayor Andre Dickens cites Atlanta as a hub for clean and sustainable manufacturing.
• Georgia Tech — Rogues Gallery (CRNCH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCarbice has deployed and validated products in Georgia Tech's Rogues Gallery real data center environments, contributing to nationally recognized research supporting over 30 published papers.
• GlobalFoundries (Gregg Bartlett, CTO, Board Member)minorOthersGregg Bartlett, CTO of GlobalFoundries, serves on Carbice Board of Directors.
• Infinity Engineered Products (Marc Sullivan, CFO, Board Member)minorOthersMarc Sullivan, CFO of Infinity Engineered Products, serves on Carbice Board of Directors; recognized as NACD Directorship Certified and 2025 Georgia Titan 100.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Direct peers

• Thermal Grizzly: Thermal Grizzly is a leading consumer-focused thermal interface brand (Kryonaut thermal paste, KryoSheet graphite pads, Conductonaut liquid metal). Direct competitor in the DIY PC builder channel where Carbice is launching its Ice Pad via Noctua.
• Henkel (Bergquist): Henkel's Bergquist brand is one of the largest global suppliers of thermal interface materials — thermal greases, pads, and phase-change materials — for industrial, automotive, and electronics applications. It is the most established incumbent Carbice competes against in industrial and AI data center channels.
• Parker Hannifin (Chomerics): Parker's Chomerics division is a leading supplier of thermal interface materials, EMI shielding, and engineered conductive materials for aerospace, defense, and electronics. Overlaps directly with Carbice Space Pad and Carbice Pad in aerospace primes and DoD customers.
• Indium Corporation: Indium Corporation manufactures thermal interface materials (metal-based TIMs, indium foils, and pastes) for semiconductors, power electronics, and aerospace/defense. Most directly comparable peer in the high-performance, high-reliability TIM niche.
• Boyd Corporation: Boyd is a global thermal management solutions provider offering thermal interface materials, liquid cooling, and engineered heat spreading for data centers, aerospace, and industrial customers. Direct overlap with Carbice Pad in data center and aerospace channels.
• Fujipoly: Fujipoly is a specialist thermal interface material manufacturer known for its Sarcon silicone rubber thermal pads and gap fillers used in power electronics, telecom, and consumer electronics. Direct competitor in pre-cut industrial TIM sheets.
• Arctic (ARCTIC Cooling): Arctic is a consumer thermal management brand selling thermal pastes (MX-4, MX-6), thermal pads, and CPU coolers in the DIY PC channel. Direct competitor to Carbice Ice Pad and bundled/retail thermal interface offerings for gamers.

Broad incumbents

• Shin-Etsu Chemical: Shin-Etsu is a major global materials company with significant thermal interface material offerings (silicone-based pads, greases) used across semiconductors, electronics, and automotive. Comparable in scale and application breadth but not a CNT specialist.
• Laird Performance Materials (DuPont): Laird, now part of DuPont, supplies thermal interface materials (gap fillers, thermal pads, phase-change materials) for 5G/telecom, automotive, and industrial customers. Comparable in industrial TIM focus and customer profile.
• Honeywell Electronic Materials: Honeywell supplies thermal management materials, including thermal interface materials and phase-change materials, to aerospace, defense, and semiconductor customers. Overlaps with Carbice Space Pad in aerospace and defense TIM specifications.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors8 records

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M&A

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