Alantum

What Alantum does

Alantum sells primarily through direct B2B enterprise engagement with the world's leading chemicals, petrochemicals, automotive, and energy companies, developing tailored catalyst and energy-material solutions in close engineering partnerships. Revenue is generated from hardware sales of metal foam products and components, complemented by professional services covering agile product design, prototyping, and scale-up support. Pricing is quote-based, negotiated individually per project, with multi-year contract cadence typical of enterprise industrial supply. Alantum has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Korea Zinc Company since 2008, giving it upstream access to non-ferrous metals and balance-sheet support; its sister company KEMCO anchors participation in the battery-materials supply chain. The company holds ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications and protects its position with 150+ patents.

Name

Alantum

Legal name

Alantum Europe GmbH

Website

https://alantum.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Alantum is the world's only commercial-scale manufacturer of alloy and metal foam, supplying structured catalyst carriers, emission-control substrates, and electrodes to leading chemicals, petrochemicals, automotive, and energy companies across operations in Korea, Germany, and China.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Specialty Metal Foam Manufacturing

NAICS

Paint and Coating Manufacturing (325510)

SIC

Primary Smelting & Refining Of Nonferrous Metals (3330), Industrial Organic Chemicals (2860)

akta.pro primary industry

Polymer Foams & Cellular Materials (PU Foams, EPS/XPS, Structural Foams) (IMAEANAL)

Keywords

• Metal foam manufacturing
• Alloy foam products
• Catalyst substrates
• Emissions control materials
• Structured metal foams

Headquarters

HQ city

Miusinsk

HQ country

Ukraine

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Metal Foam Products and Components: Direct sales of alloy and metal foam products including Murray Raney activated nickel foam, Nobilox silver catalyst, HeatFOX enamelling furnace catalysts, Micropellets, PureCat catalysts, and radiant surface burner materials. Products are developed in-house and distributed directly.
2. Tailored Solutions and Engineering Services: Custom development of solutions in close collaboration with customers including agile product design, engineering, shaping foam for mass manufacturing, and process development from rapid prototyping to scaled production lines. Services encompass R&D expertise, application design, serial production support, and metal foam expertise.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Alantum manufactures and sells structured metal and alloy foam products—produced through patented powder-metallurgical and electroplating processes—as catalyst carriers, electrolyzer electrodes, and burner substrates for chemicals, petrochemicals, automotive, and energy industries. The company offers both standard foam products (Raney Nickel Foam, 3D-Electrodes, Nobilox silver catalysts, HeatFOX enamelling furnace catalysts, PureCat clean air catalysts, Micropellets, and radiant surface burner materials) and tailored engineering solutions, with 1 million liters of annual production capacity across facilities in Germany, China, and Korea.

Product overview

Alantum is the world's only manufacturer operating on a commercial scale for alloy foam technology, producing approximately 1 million liters of alloy and metal foam annually. The company offers a portfolio of specialized foam-based products including Raney Nickel Foam for catalytic applications, 3D-Electrodes for water splitting, Nobilox silver catalysts for formaldehyde production, HeatFOX enamelling furnace catalysts, PureCat clean air catalysts, Micropellets for fixed bed reactors, and Radiant Surface Burner Materials. These products are manufactured in various forms (sheets, rings, cones, cubes, coils, cylinders, candles, composites) using pure metals (Nickel, Iron, Copper, Silver) and super alloys (NiFeCrAl, NiCrAl, Inconel, Stainless Steel). Alantum operates production facilities in Germany, China, and Korea, with annual capacity of 1 million liters, and provides complementary services including CFD simulation, R&D expertise, application design, and serial production support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Murray Raney: Activated nickel foam honoring the legacy of Dr. Murray Raney, designed for maximized catalytic interface with rapid hydrogen and oxygen evolution.
• el3ctrod
• Nobilox
• HeatFOX
• PureCat
• Micropellets
• Kovea

Products and services

• Murray Raney Activated Nickel Foam A new generation of activated nickel foam featuring an innovative open-porous structure that promotes rapid hydrogen and oxygen evolution with superior electrical conduction through a pure nickel backside for excellent electrical contact and long-term stability. Designed for hydrogen-related catalysis applications.
• el3ctrod 3D-Electrode Next generation 3D-electrode for electrochemical water splitting using Alantum's foam technology, offering increased system simplicity, high robustness, and optimized cost of ownership for Gigawatt electrolysis applications.
• Nobilox Silver Catalyst Silver-based catalyst for the partial oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde, providing 50% less silver utilization, up to 50% pressure drop savings, and up to double lifetime as a direct drop-in solution for formaldehyde production.
• HeatFOX Enamelling Furnace Catalyst Next generation enamelling furnace catalysts that improve wire quality, save energy with 30°C lower light-off temperature compared to all-metal catalysts, and ensure ultra-low emissions with nano technology enhanced Pt/Pd coating.
• PureCat Clean Air Catalyst Clean air catalyst with >99% activity at room temperature, featuring engineered designs based on customer requirements using in-house CFD simulation, with market-leading lifetime and ultra-low dust emissions for clean air applications.
• Micropellets Drop-in Catalyst Substrate Drop-in metal catalyst substrate designed to fit any fixed bed reactor, creating value through mass and heat transfer intensification at minimum pressure drop with high geometric surface area.
• Radiant Surface Burner Material Super alloy foam for radiant surface burner applications providing fast heating, tailored durability for harsh environments, and proven performance in residential and industrial surface flame applications (e.g., Kovea Alpine Master 2.0 camping gas burners).
• Metal Foam Sheets Metal foam produced in sheets of various thicknesses that can be compressed, joined, cut, stamped, welded, seamed, sealed, filled, and drilled to create 3D shapes for diverse industrial applications.
• Tailored Metal Foam Shapes (Rings, Cones, Cubes, Coils, Cylinders, Candles, Composites) Tailor-made foam shapes for various applications from ready-to-use drop-in solutions to all-new design concepts, encompassing foam-pellets on millimeter scale to reactor-sized composites.
• Pure Metal Foams (Nickel, Iron, Copper, Silver) Base metal and precious metal foams of special interest for electro- and chemical catalysis, with Ag and Cu offering the highest thermal and electrical conductivities.
• Super Alloy Foams (NiFeCrAl, NiCrAl, Inconel, Stainless Steel) Super alloy foams with tremendous material strengths used as catalyst carriers, flow fields, and high-temperature fuel-saving burner media.
• CFD Simulation and Engineering Services Reactor and process simulation using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for engineering and application design, provided as part of tailored solution engagements.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30% energy savings achieved through low pressure drop and high heat and mass transfer rates
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Höganäs: Swedish leader in metal powders for sintering and additive manufacturing, supplying the same nonferrous metal raw material ecosystem Alantum relies on, with adjacency in porous and structured metal components.
• BASF: Global chemical major with a broad heterogeneous catalysis portfolio. While not a metal foam specialist, BASF develops and supplies structured catalysts to the same chemicals and petrochemicals customers Alantum targets.
• Johnson Matthey: UK-based specialty chemicals and catalysts company with a strong position in precious metal catalysts and emission control technologies, serving overlapping automotive and chemicals customers.
• Mersen: French specialty materials company with porous metal, graphite, and anticorrosive materials portfolios serving chemicals, energy, and electronics customers — adjacent to Alantum's structured metal and energy materials businesses.
• Clariant: Swiss specialty chemicals company with a significant catalysts business serving chemicals, petrochemicals, and hydrogen applications — comparable end-markets and customer base to Alantum.
• Heraeus: German precious metals and specialty chemicals group with activities in catalysts and platinum-group metal applications, overlapping with Alantum's precious metal foam and catalyst offerings.

Direct peers

• Recemat: Dutch manufacturer of metal foams (chromium-nickel steel, nickel) and porous metal components, directly competing with Alantum in structured metal foam substrates for catalysis, filtration, and energy applications.
• Mott Corporation: US-based manufacturer of porous metal products (sintered metal, fiber metal, and foam media) used in filtration, flow control, and catalyst support — closely comparable to Alantum's porous metal foam value proposition.
• Exxentis: Swiss manufacturer of metal foams and porous metal components for catalysis, acoustics, and heat exchange, with comparable open-porous cellular metal technology to Alantum.

Emerging players

• Ultramet: US manufacturer of advanced cellular and foam materials, including reticulated porous ceramics and metal foams, with overlap in catalyst supports and high-surface-area substrates relevant to Alantum's applications.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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