Why We Built This
Derek Saltzman spent six years as a materials engineer at an aerospace tier-two supplier in Georgia. The problem he kept running into: glass-fiber composites were heavy, hard to recycle, and their mechanical properties hit a ceiling that no amount of process optimization could fix.
In 2023, he started experimenting with electrospun nanofiber mats as a reinforcement replacement. The early results were promising — 40% weight reduction with comparable tensile modulus — but no commercial supplier could deliver the material at production scale.
So he built the production line himself. Soarce launched in 2024 out of a 12,000 sq ft facility in Atlanta with a single twin-screw extruder and one electrospinning unit. Today we run three compounding lines and ship to manufacturers across the southeastern United States.
