
NEWS FEATURES
Aspiring Materials in the media
We're focused on solving sustainability and resilience for heavy industries, and it's awesome when we also get noticed for it.
13 May
2025
Latitude Media | These startups are mining cobalt from unusual places
Chris Oze, Aspiring Materials co-founder and chief science officer, told Latitude Media that the company’s technology stems from the desire to make the most out of limited resources.
13 May
2025
Caffeine Daily | Aspiring Materials wants to decarbonise the world by turning waste rock into economic gold
Aspiring Materials is paving the way for transformational change in how we handle mining waste, turning it into valuable outputs which can underpin sustainable industrial practices, unlock further green innovation and help New Zealand strengthen its reputation as a cleantech leader.
09 May
2025
Following a scientific paper published in Science Advances suggesting ground olivine could soak up tonnes of carbon dioxide when added to oceans, two of our scientists explained why that approach can lead to unintended consequences.
07 May
2025
Mining Technology | Aspiring Materials expands to US to enhance domestic critical mineral supply
Aspiring Materials, a company specialising in the extraction of critical minerals, has announced its expansion into the US market.
12 April
2025
The Press | Unlocking the key to capturing carbon | The Press
A simple rock holds the key to power a phone, colour a bowl, pave a road and even help curb climate change - and one Christchurch geologist is extracting the elements to make this happen.
28 March
2025
BusinessDesk | Christchurch cleantech Aspiring Materials launches pilot plant, moves ‘at pace’ towards commercialisation (paywalled)
A Christchurch cleantech startup that has developed a carbon-free way of processing critical minerals from a common rock has launched its pilot plant.
19 December 2024
NBR | Cleantech startup Aspiring Materials gains backing from Elemental (paywalled)
Aspiring Materials announced as one of 16 global start ups to join Elemental Impact, a non-profit investor in climate technologies.
04 December 2024
BusinessDesk | Carbon Catch-up: 'Who pays?' – The economics of carbon capture tech (paywalled)
CEO Mark Chadderton shares his experience at Aspiring Materials in the challenges to raise NZ capital for clean tech startups.
18 June
2024
BusinessDesk | The New Zealand cleantech companies trying to impress South Korea (paywalled)
Aspiring Materials' CEO Mark Chadderton joined a NZTE delegation to South Korea to explore ways the NZ cleantech sector can support the manufacturing nation to decarbonise.
23 October 2023
Stuff | The ordinary rock we drive on holds a planet-saving secret
It’s used as cheap gravel on roads, but the unassuming rock olivine could also clean up factories and suck a greenhouse gas from the air. Stuff's Forever Project looks at how this low value rock could hold the secret to how we decarbonise heavy industries.
20 October 2023
RNZ | Kiwi start-up accepted into global sustainability programme
Our CEO Mark Chadderton talks with Todd Zaner on RNZ Nights programme about why Aspiring Materials' stands apart from all other available carbon sequestration technologies.
18 October
2023
BusinessDesk | Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy backs Aspiring Materials (paywalled)
The founders of a Christchurch startup developing carbon sequestration technology have been named as fellows for Breakthrough Energy, an initiative started by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
06 October 2023
BusinessDesk | Elon Musk spotlight on Christchurch carbon capture tech (paywalled)
Aspiring Materials is just one of 10 global start ups to be profiled in a short film funded by the Musk Foundation's XPRIZE accelerator platform Carbon Removal competition.
22 September 2023
Dynamo Energy Hub | Aspiring Materials selected as one of 10 'cutting edge cleantech' businesses set to revolutionise the energy industry.
The fourth annual whitepaper 'Cleantech Innovation, Collaboration, and Climate Action', by Dynamo Energy Hub and UBS, profiles Aspiring Materials' mineralisation process potential for industrial decarbonisation.
20 June
2023
Foodmag.com | PepsiCo announces winners of inaugural APAC Greenhouse Accelerator Program
Selected as just one of two New Zealand start ups to join the PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator program (APAC region), Aspiring Materials joins a four-month business optimisation program to accelerate their growth.
11 October
2022
TVNZ | Breakfast News
Our work on olivine and climate-change technology is featured on the morning news program (time stamp 41:30).
11 April
2022
xprize.org | Meet the Competitors in the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal
Aspiring Materials is honored to to be selected by XPRIZE as one of its Carbon Removal Top 60, "a group of the most promising carbon removal teams and solutions in the competition so far."
03 April
2022
21 March
2022
RNZ | Marscrete: Building on Mars
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15 October
2021
15 February 2021
stuff.co.nz | Scientists devise method to combat climate change using common NZ rock
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18 June
2018
TEDx Occidental College | Changing the concrete paradigm
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