ABOUT US

Mission

We exist to solve some of society's biggest climate challenges through renewable and high performing material innovation.

Values

Our vision is to revolutionize the world of material science where natural materials can be leveraged to create products that can outperform those made synthetically.

Before Soarce - SOAR Aerospace

Soarce commenced towards the closing of 2017 as SOAR Aerospace (SOAR), a carbon fiber (CF) manufacturer of recreational drone frames. During this time period SOAR began with a team of 6 ambitious UCF students that had the goal of introducing personality into the drone racing industry for every single drone hobbyist.

During this era most drone frame were created with the same exact carbon fiber black (due to the durability & flexibility of the CF), which caused pilots to have difficulty expressing their identity when piloting their drones. The only way pilots could express some sense of personality was by having their motors and/or rotor blades colored. To many pilots this wasn't enough customization. This is where SOAR Aerospace was born. The SOAR team discovered that they could offer pilots the opportunity of expressing their personality by creating carbon fiber composites and introducing a top and bottom layer of colored fiberglass into their composites to introduce unique colors that pilots never imagined to see, which also having the durability & flexibility that were needed from the CF.  To SOAR this was a simple fix to the drone racing frames that caused an uproar in the community. Drone pilots were thrilled by the colors SOAR was able to provide to the community. As SOAR became a notable brand in the drone racing industry, the team began to realize that they wanted to do more than just create products for drone hobbyist. They wanted to create a brand that was able to impact the world. Therefore, the team decided to take their knowledge acquired from manufacturing CF composites for the drone racing industry and hit the drawing board to determine which industry had a major problem that needed solving and how they could take their expertise and aid another industry.

How Soarce Began

Meri Lundahl

Once SOAR Aerospace hit the drawing board to determine the next industry to tackle. One of Soarce's advisor's, Meri Lundahl, became the inspiration behind how Soarce transitioned from a dream into reality and took their

composite knowledge to then start manufacturing bio-based nanomaterials. Meri was the first ever to spin biopolymer filament fibers (exhibited in the video above) in a lab. The SOAR Aerospace team was bewildered at the fact that they saw a material specialist make fibers utilizing nanomaterials extracted from nature. From then on the team knew that they had to get in contact with Meri to gain an understanding of how she came up with her unique thesis. From that first conversation, the team built a great relationship with Meri and continued to have periodic meetings with her while also attempting to replicate her biopolymer fiber experiment. The process was extremely challenging for the team and required SOAR to run endless trials, which eventually led them to running a successful experiment. Meri was highly impressed with the teams passion and determination to run the experiment successfully.

After running several successful experiments and researching potential industries the team could potentially get involved with; SOAR learned about the pollutive nature of the textile industry and learned the fashion industry was the second largest polluting industry. To the Soar Team, they couldn't wrap their heads around how the fashion industry was contributing 10% of the total greenhouse gasses releases annually. This is when SOAR transitioned into SOARCE. Meri's expertise aided the team in discovering that nature on a nano scale can be stronger than the synthetic materials that we abundantly create today utilizing finite resources. With Meri's approach of utilizing nature SOARCE now had access to creating materials out of nature that could be repurposed and recycled.  Once SOARCE was created and they expanded the team with more investors and more hands in the lab, they then asked Meri to join the team by serving as the Sustainability Executive and she gladly accepted.

           As time passes on, the human race must take a moment to consider all the convenient and helpful products we have been able to create for the benefit of ourselves...

          We homosapiens have made ourselves useful and cheap products from the planet's FINITE RESOURCES... Which has regrettably aided to the destruction of our planet. With all the products we've created utilizing non-renewable resources and toxic chemicals; we have managed to emit billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, taint the ocean's water with our insane chemical usage, pile millions of tons of non-degradable products into landfills, toss billions of tons of plastics into the ocean (which ultimately ends up within the digestive system of most wildlife), and amongst so much more destructive actions every single year for the last 300 years... And we continue to increase those values.

            We humans have created an astronomical disarray on our home planet!
We must work towards fixing our mess if we want the earth to live as long as it's meant to.

This is why at Soarce we make certain to instill our Mission & Values into the minds of each one of our team members! We make sure to create products that are beneficial for the plants and all its' wildlife including humans.

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