Heafquartered in College Station TX having facilities also in Irvine, TX., Essentium Materials LLC - also dba Essentium and Essentium3d. - is an advanced materials firm specializing in personalized research and development solutions for smart materials. Working at the interface of engineering filament materials and industrial additive manufacturing platforms, the company is focused on bio-based functional fillers for plastics and natural fiber composites that are made up of a bioblend that includes coconut shell powder. The technology is used to develop partially bio-based plastics, and fully bio-based when used with a bio-resin. The firm's coconut fiber composite was used in the development of the 2012 Ford Focus Electric and has various other commercial applications.
