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A Maui-based advanced materials company is turning Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s harsh marine environment and supply-chain realities into the foundation for a circular composite materials platform centered on large-format additive manufacturing.<\/p>\n

Voltage Vessels LLC, founded in 2020 by Sam Young, recognizes the challenges associated with its location, including long supply lead times, omnipresent corrosive saltwater, limited landfill capacity, a high cost of living, and a dependence on imports. But, Young declares, \u201cHawai\u2019I isn\u2019t a limitation. It\u2019s the proving ground. If advanced materials and distributed manufacturing work here, they can work almost anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oahu-born Young, an archeologist, open-water swimmer, free diver and former commercial fisherman who obtained his anthropology degree from the University of Montana in 2007, is also an environmentalist and an inventor. Years ago, he was working on water safety patrol in Peahi, on Maui\u2019s north shore. As he sat in the lineup on his jet ski, waiting for the area\u2019s legendary big waves, Young was struck by a harsh contradiction: He was inhaling exhaust from support craft. Even ocean safety and documentation operations were still tied to gas-guzzling combustion engines. Disgusted by this pollution, he decided then to create an all-electric jet ski and an all-electric catamaran. And he did.<\/p>\n

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Sam Young (left) and Ben Raimo on a plane in Ohio, during one of their many trips to meet with partners, compounders, and manufacturers as they developed their Eclipse X9 material.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His high-school buddy (and current business partner) Ben Raimo marvels at Young\u2019s audacious ideas and at how he often makes such ambitious ventures come true.<\/p>\n

Making stuff \u201cout of rocks\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, Young wants to boost Hawai\u2019i\u2019s manufacturing capabilities and leverage his native state\u2019s available resources to create an eco-friendly materials platform. That prompted him to experiment with basalt fiber as a reinforcement for thermoplastic resins. Basalt, the most common volcanic rock on Earth, forms from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava that is rich in magnesium and iron. It makes up the vast majority of the oceanic crust and is known for its\u00a0extreme durability, heat resistance, and unique chemical reactivity.<\/p>\n

Basalt fiber is nonconductive, noncorrosive, and may have lower radar reflectivity than metal- or carbon-fiber-reinforced alternatives.<\/p>\n

Most recently, the company has launched a proprietary composite material called Eclipse X9, available in both pellet and filament formats. The initial grade consists of a recycled polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) matrix reinforced with an unspecified percentage of chopped basalt fiber. Printed parts made from Eclipse X9, a reprocessable thermoplastic, can also be ground up and reused as feedstock.<\/p>\n

Voltage Vessels designed the material to be additively manufactured at scale and engineered it for strength, durability and circularity in harsh environments. That makes it ideal for marine applications, and the firm has garnered attention recently for submitting a 6-meter, rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB) prototype for U.S. maritime defense evaluation.<\/p>\n

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Both Ben and Sam love the water. This is Ben surfing in Maui before moving to Los Angeles and joining Voltage Vessels as its chief commercial officer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ben Raimo, meanwhile, moved to Hawai\u2019i at age 14, and he and Young became fast friends in high school. The two have remained very close ever since, even after Raimo, a lifelong waterman who was a big-wave surfer, moved to Los Angeles about a decade ago.<\/p>\n

An entrepreneur by nature, Raimo started a financial marketing agency in L.A. He also worked in insurance and compliance before Young convinced him in July 2025 to join Voltage Vessels as chief commercial officer in charge of business development.<\/p>\n

Creating a materials platform for the future
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Now the two are mapping a future that has the company creating a new division, Voltage Materials. Raimo says they already are selling more filament than they can produce. Noting that they are working with an independent compounding partner, he said, \u201cWe have 10,000 pounds now. We\u2019ll be producing 30,000 pounds in August\u201d \u2013\u2013 all of which he says is already sold.<\/p>\n

Voltage\u2019s new materials platform has aggressive growth plans, including developing tough, wear-resistant nylon 12 composites and other high-temperature thermoplastic composites for extreme environments, as well as biodegradable formulations. They foresee the portfolio including polycarbonate, polypropylene, and HDPE.<\/p>\n

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A motorcycle-riding friend of Sam\u2019s on the mainland installed struts made of Eclipse X9 on his Enduro bike and reports that the parts are holding up well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These materials will be appropriate for a variety of end-use applications, including infrastructure, energy, defense and marine, among others. Voltage has 3D-printed surfboards, structural motorcycle components, electrical utility enclosures, and an 8-foot-by-14-foot autonomous ocean-monitoring buoy. It also plans to print a scaled-down canoe for use by children.<\/p>\n

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Ben Raimo (left) and Sam Young at a partner facility on the mainland in 2025. A large-format additive manufacturing print is in progress using Eclipse X9. The image represents Voltage\u2019s transition from materials development into production-scale manufacturing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last October, Young and Raimo visited CEAD BV, the Dutch maker of large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) machines. CEAD also specializes in processing a wide range of composite thermoplastic materials using its advanced pellet extruders.<\/p>\n

Young considers the HDPro-brand composite material that CEAD developed jointly with German materials specialist DIPROMat GmbH to be the gold standard resin for making large, durable, heavy-duty parts, particularly for applications such as boat hulls and watercraft.<\/p>\n

Wanting to benchmark Voltage and Eclipse X9 against the best, they ordered a 20-foot-long, 3,500-pound boat that CEAD 3D-printed using HDPro. They finally took delivery of the boat in Hawai\u2019I early this summer.<\/p>\n

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Sam and Ben purchased this 6-meter rigid hull inflatable boat, which was printed by CEAD in the Netherlands using their HDPro material. The boat recently arrived in Hawai\u02bbi and is serving as the Voltage\u2019s benchmark platform as it validates Eclipse X9 against one of the industry\u2019s leading LFAM marine materials.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now testing our material against the best in the market,\u201d Young said recently. \u201cWe\u2019re validating our materials,\u201d which he says have better adhesion properties than HDPro, meaning they can be more easily painted.<\/p>\n

Early testing indicates that Eclipse X9 offers better tensile strength in both the X print direction (yielding higher printed structural strength) and the Z perpendicular layers (providing improved interlayer performance), better bending strength in the X direction (meaning stiffer marine structures and tooling), very low water absorption (for dimensional stability in wet environments), and excellent heat deflection properties (for improved solar and service-temperature resilience).<\/p>\n

Promoting circular manufacturing <\/strong><\/p>\n

Young\u2019s larger vision revolves around circular manufacturing. Parts made from Eclipse X9 are weldable, highly repairable and recyclable, making them an environmentally friendly alternative to components made from fiberglass, wood laminates, aluminum or commodity plastics.<\/p>\n

He also wants to create what he refers to as a distributed manufacturing network, meaning creating production sites close to where the resulting products will be used. He foresees setting up basalt refineries in quarries to allow for faster deployment and less environmental impact related to transporting products across the country or the world.<\/p>\n

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For Young, his mission is not simply to bring manufacturing \u201cback\u201d to Hawai\u02bbi. It is to bring more high-value innovation to Hawai\u02bbi, creating skilled jobs that support local families and the local economy while proving that cleaner materials and distributed production can work in some of the world\u2019s toughest environments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to create jobs that help people live more in balance with the places they call home,\u201d he says. \u201cThat means building products that are less toxic, less energy intensive and easier to repair, reuse and recycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawai\u02bbi may be the proving ground, he noted, but the model is not limited to islands. \u201cIf Voltage can make circular manufacturing work in a place defined by saltwater, high logistics costs, limited landfill space and fragile ecosystems, the same approach can help communities around the world manufacture closer to the point of need with less waste and greater resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He has broad global experience and for more than 35 years has worked as a journalist, editor-in-chief, publishing executive and key connector of like-minded parties. He has launched successful publications and C-level events on three continents. While with Crain Communications Inc., he oversaw the relaunch of the 100-year-old European Rubber Journal in London and helped to start Urethanes Technology magazine there. \u00a0In 1988 Bob returned to Akron, Ohio, to serve as founding editor of Plastics News, an award-winning, weekly business newspaper. In 2005 he oversaw the editorial launch of the bilingual (Chinese and English) PN China e-newsletter and website. For more than a decade at PN he also held the titles of associate publisher, editorial director and conference director, and most recently served as business development director. A long-time affiliate member of the Industrial Designers Society of America, Bob has organized numerous design-focused events, earned a Personal Recognition Award from IDSA in 2013, and constantly strives to help bridge the gap between the design and manufacturing communities. In 2014 he left Crain and created RC Grace LLC in Akron, Ohio, as a consultancy that aims to help companies to enhance their branding and market presence, find business partners, connect with design resources (here or in Asia), secure funding and advance their growth initiatives. Email Bob or visit his website at www.rcgrace.com to learn more about how he can help you.","sameAs":["http:\/\/ulprospector.com"],"url":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/author\/robert-grace\/"}]}},"authors":[{"term_id":1244,"user_id":23,"is_guest":0,"slug":"robert-grace","display_name":"Bob Grace","avatar_url":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/media\/2017\/10\/Robert-Grace_avatar_1508791447-96x96.jpg","author_category":"1","exclude_author":"","first_name":"Robert","last_name":"Grace","user_url":"http:\/\/ulprospector.com","job_title":"","description":"<p>Robert Grace has been in business-to-business communications his entire career. He has broad global experience and for more than 35 years has worked as a journalist, editor-in-chief, publishing executive and key connector of like-minded parties. He has launched successful publications and C-level events on three continents.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>While with Crain Communications Inc., he oversaw the relaunch of the 100-year-old <em>European Rubber Journal<\/em> in London and helped to start <em>Urethanes Technology<\/em> magazine there. \u00a0In 1988 Bob returned to Akron, Ohio, to serve as founding editor of <em>Plastics News<\/em>, an award-winning, weekly business newspaper. In 2005 he oversaw the editorial launch of the bilingual (Chinese and English) <em>PN China<\/em> e-newsletter and website. For more than a decade at <em>PN<\/em> he also held the titles of associate publisher, editorial director and conference director, and most recently served as business development director.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A long-time affiliate member of the Industrial Designers Society of America, Bob has organized numerous design-focused events, earned a Personal Recognition Award from IDSA in 2013, and constantly strives to help bridge the gap between the design and manufacturing communities.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In 2014 he left Crain and created RC Grace LLC in Akron, Ohio, as a consultancy that aims to help companies to enhance their branding and market presence, find business partners, connect with design resources (here or in Asia), secure funding and advance their growth initiatives.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"mailto:bob@rcgrace.com\">Email Bob<\/a> or visit his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcgrace.com\/\">www.rcgrace.com<\/a> to learn more about how he can help you.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22354,"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions\/22354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22340"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=22340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}