SOLARIS CHEM INC.

What SOLARIS CHEM INC. does

Solaris Chem Inc. is a privately held Canadian specialty fine chemicals manufacturer founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec. The company synthesizes and supplies high-purity organic electronic and biotech materials — primarily fullerene C60 and C70 and their derivatives (PCBM, Bis-PCBM, Tris-PCBM, fullerenol, malonic esters), semiconducting polymers (PTAA and Fluoro-PTAA for hole-transport layers), and a fullerene C60-based product range positioned for pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications. Its materials serve as active, electron-transport, or hole-transport layers in organic photovoltaics (OPV), organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), organic thin-film transistors (OTFT), and perovskite solar cell devices, alongside research-grade inputs into neuroscience, drug-delivery, antioxidant, and dermatological studies.

The company's core technical asset is a proprietary solvent-free synthesis method that enables production of fullerenes and fullerenols at purity grades from 99.5% up to an ultra-high 99.99% (SOL5369YY) without residual solvents, marketed under four branded product lines — Fullerium, Polyrium, Neurobium, and Lumerium. Manufacturing is sited at the Quebec headquarters and powered primarily by Hydro-Quebec hydroelectricity, a positioning choice the company uses to support an environmental sustainability narrative and its NSERC-GreEN Green Electronics Network membership.

Solaris Chem operates a direct-to-consumer go-to-market via a login-gated proprietary webstore (gram to kilogram quantities), supplemented by five regional representative offices — Europe (EMFUTUR in Spain), Middle East (Kuwait), Southeast Asia (Singapore covering seven ASEAN markets), Taiwan, and Japan (TOSCO) — handling enterprise, quotation-based, and sample orders. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; customers request quotations for bulk orders, although a 5% webstore discount and tiered purity-grade SKUs provide some pricing transparency at retail. Revenue is generated entirely through one-time specialty chemical product sales to a fragmented customer base spanning academic and government research institutions, electronics R&D teams, pharmaceutical and biotech researchers, and cosmetic formulators; no subscription, licensing, or recurring revenue stream is in evidence. The company has no disclosed institutional funding, parent company, M&A activity, certifications, patents, or executive leadership disclosures beyond ownership.

Name

SOLARIS CHEM INC.

Legal name

Solaris Chem Inc.

Website

https://solarischem.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Solaris Chem Inc. is a privately held Canadian specialty chemicals manufacturer, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Quebec, that synthesizes and sells high-purity fullerenes, semiconducting polymers, and dyes for organic electronics (OPV, OLED, OTFT, perovskite), pharmaceutical and biotech research, and cosmetic formulations via a direct webstore and regional representatives.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fine Chemicals / Specialty Organic Materials

NAICS

Basic Chemical Manufacturing (3251)

SIC

Industrial Organic Chemicals (2860), Chemicals & Allied Products (2800)

akta.pro primary industry

Electronic & High-Purity Specialty Chemicals (IMAEABAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Display & Optoelectronics Chemicals (OLED/LCD materials, polarizer chemicals) (IMAEAKAN), Thin-Film Deposition Materials (PVD/CVD/ALD Targets & Precursors) (HDAHAGAH)

Keywords

• Fine organic chemicals
• Fullerene materials
• Semiconducting polymers
• Organic electronics materials
• Photovoltaic materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Vaudreuil-dorion

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Fine Chemical Product Sales: Sale of high-purity fine chemicals including fullerenes, fullerene derivatives, semiconducting polymers, and dyes for research, development, and industrial applications. Products sold in various quantities from grams to kilograms.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Solaris Chem Inc. synthesizes and supplies high-purity fine organic chemicals, including fullerenes (C60, C70 and derivatives such as PCBM, PC71BM, and Tris-PCBM), semiconducting polymers (PTAA, Fluoro-PTAA), and specialty dyes for organic electronics applications such as OPV solar cells, OLED displays, and OTFT transistors. The company also produces water-soluble fullerenols for pharmaceutical, biotech, and cosmetic research, selling in gram-level quantities for academic R&D and kilogram-level quantities for industrial development.

Product overview

SOLARIS CHEM INC. is a private Canadian company founded in 2007 that manufactures and supplies advanced fine chemicals for organic electronics and biotechnology applications. The company's product portfolio consists of four main branded product lines: Fullerium (fullerene C60 and C70 derivatives including PCBM, Bis-PCBM, Tris-PCBM, Fullerenol, and Malonic esters for OPV/OTFT/OLED applications), Polyrium (PTAA and Fluoro-PTAA hole-transport polymers for solar cells), Neurobium (fullerene C60 products for pharmaceutical and biotech research including water-soluble derivatives), and Lumerium (premium fullerene C60 for cosmetic formulations). Products are available from gram scale for R&D to kilogram scale for industrial development, and are distributed through regional representatives across America, Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Japan.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Fullerium: Fullerene and derivatives C60 & C70 product line including fullerene, fullerenol, malonic ester, malonic acid, PCBM, Bis-PCBM, and Tris-PCBM
• Polyrium
• Neurobium
• Lumerium

Products and services

• Fullerene C60 Research and industrial-grade fullerene C60 offered in purity grades from 99.5% to 99.99%, used as an electron acceptor in OPV solar cells, OTFT transistors, and other organic electronic devices. Available in gram to kilogram quantities.
• Fullerene C70 Research-grade fullerene C70 with enhanced optical absorption properties compared to C60, used as electron acceptor in high-efficiency organic photovoltaic devices.
• PC71BM [6,6]-Phenyl C71 butyric acid methyl ester offering >99.9% [6,6] isomerized purity, used as electron acceptor in high-efficiency bulk heterojunction solar cells with enhanced light harvesting in the 400-700nm visible spectrum.
• PCBM [6,6]-Phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester, a standard fullerene C60 derivative used as electron acceptor in organic photovoltaic devices.
• Tris-PCBM C60 fullerene derivative with LUMO level closer to vacuum, providing potential reduction in energetic losses and increased open circuit voltage in OPV systems.
• Fullerenol C60 Water-soluble polyhydroxylated fullerene C60 derivative (C60(OH)n) with antioxidant properties, used in biomedical research, neurodegenerative disease studies, and cosmetic formulations.
• C60 Malonic Ester Soluble fullerene C60 derivative used as a battery electrolyte additive, soluble in carbonate solvents such as dimethyl carbonate (DMC).
• PTAA Poly[bis(4-phenyl)(2,4,6-trimethylbiphenyl)] – a high hole mobility soluble p-type polymer semiconductor used as hole-transport layer (HTL) in organic and perovskite solar cells.
• Fluoro-PTAA Fluorinated PTAA variant with enhanced electronic properties for hole-transport layer applications in organic and perovskite solar cells.
• Neurobium WS C60 (Water-soluble) Research-grade fullerenol C60(OH)x water-soluble derivative of fullerene C60 for pharmaceutical and biotechnology research applications including neurodegenerative disease models and oxidative stress assays.
• Lumerium WS (Water-soluble Cosmetic Grade) High-purity water-soluble fullerenol C60(OH)x designed for cosmetic and dermatological applications, delivering antioxidant protection in serums, gels, and lotions with 99.95% purity (USP certified grade).

Quantifiable outcome

• Lumerium Hydroxy C60 is 172 times as effective as Vitamin C as an antioxidant
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• NSERC-GreEN (Green Electronics Network)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSolarisChem is a partner of NSERC-GreEN (Green Electronics Network), which involves 17 industrial partners from across Canada and 14 collaborating organizations (National and International) in organic electronics, packaging, and printing. The chief objective is to develop environmentally-benign printed sensors technologies for smart packaging based on new organic functional materials.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Tokyo Chemical Industry (TCI): TCI is a global specialty chemicals catalog supplier serving organic electronics, OPV, OLED, and pharmaceutical research markets. It is directly comparable because it offers fullerenes, PCBM derivatives, and PTAA-family polymers to the same research-grade and pilot-scale customer base as Solaris Chem.
• Nano-C: Nano-C specializes in fullerene-based materials (C60, C70, PCBM, custom fullerene derivatives) for OPV, sensors, and biomedical applications. It is a direct specialty peer to Solaris Chem's Fullerium line, competing in the same niche of high-purity fullerene chemistry for organic electronics and biomedical research.
• Ossila: Ossila supplies materials and testing equipment specifically for organic electronics (OPV, OLED, OTFT, perovskite). It is directly comparable to Solaris Chem because its catalog includes fullerene derivatives, PTAA and similar HTL polymers, and organic dyes targeted at the same OPV/perovskite R&D customer segment.
• Lumtec (Luminescence Technology Corp.): Lumtec supplies OLED and OPV materials including hole-transport, electron-transport, and emitting-layer compounds. It is directly comparable to Solaris Chem's Polyrium and Fullerium lines, serving the same OLED and perovskite R&D customer base from a similar specialty-chemicals distribution model.
• American Dye Source: American Dye Source manufactures specialty organic dyes, pigments, and semiconducting polymers for OLED, OPV, and OTFT applications. It is directly comparable to Solaris Chem because both companies serve organic electronics R&D customers with custom-synthesized small molecules and conjugated polymers.

Emerging players

• Derthon Optoelectronic Materials: Derthon produces small molecules, dendrimers, and functional materials for organic electronics, OLEDs, and OPVs. It is an emerging specialty peer with meaningful overlap in conjugated molecules and organic semiconductor materials for the same research and device-developer customers as Solaris Chem.
• Solenne BV: Solenne specializes in fullerene derivatives and custom synthesis for organic photovoltaics and biomedical applications. It is an emerging niche peer comparable to Solaris Chem's Fullerium portfolio, focused on high-purity C60/C70 derivatives for OPV and life-science research.
• Polyera Corporation: Polyera developed semiconducting polymers and small molecules for organic thin-film transistors and OPV. It is an emerging peer with comparable organic semiconductor chemistry expertise, though its current activity level is reduced — relevant as a reference comparable for Solaris Chem's Polyrium polymer HTL strategy.

Regional players

• 1-Material: 1-Material is a Canadian supplier of organic small molecules, monomers, and intermediates for organic electronics and pharmaceutical research. It is a regional peer with comparable product positioning to Solaris Chem (fullerene derivatives, organic semiconductors) primarily serving North American academic and industrial R&D customers.

Broad incumbents

• Sigma-Aldrich (Merck KGaA): Sigma-Aldrich / Merck is the dominant global fine chemicals and life science supplier. It is comparable because its Materials Science and Supelco portfolios include fullerenes, PCBM, organic semiconductor polymers, and pharmaceutical-grade specialty chemicals sold to overlapping OPV, OLED, and biotech research customers, though as part of a much broader catalog.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

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