NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / For decades, sustainability lived in the realm of aspiration. Ambitious global gatherings promised breakthroughs, governments drafted sweeping resolutions, and industries delivered polished reports declaring progress. Yet, beneath the speeches and statistics, a structural flaw persisted: none of these systems could verify themselves. Targets depended on trust. Compliance depended on declarations. Safety depended on assumptions.

It was a world built on optimism rather than evidence, and eventually the gap became impossible to ignore. When commitments outpaced the ability to confirm them, global sustainability stalled-not for lack of will, but for lack of tools.

SMX (NASDAQ: SMX) is rebuilding the foundation. Instead of asking the world to trust claims, it gives materials the ability to prove themselves. Its molecular-level identity technology transforms plastics, composites, and flame-retardant products into verifiable data sources, allowing policies to function not as promises, but as measurable realities. In this model, sustainability stops being a narrative. It becomes a system that cannot lie.

The End of Assumptions, the Rise of Evidence

The reason sustainability faltered was not ignorance; it was invisibility. Regulators couldn't see inside materials. Manufacturers couldn't verify recycled content beyond paperwork. Safety authorities couldn't confirm whether flame retardants were present or effective until after failures occurred.

SMX removes that blindness by embedding an invisible chemical signature directly into products at the molecular level. This identity survives processing, melting, shredding, and recycling. A quick scan reveals composition, origin, and compliance with a level of precision that renders old reporting models obsolete.

It is not oversight. It is an embedded truth. And it allows regulations to stop relying on self-policing, because materials can now carry their own evidence.

Where Reality Replaces Reporting

Singapore offers the clearest example of this shift. Working with A*STAR, SMX is building a plastics passport that links every item to a verified record of its own lifecycle. This system doesn't ask companies what they recycled. It shows them. It shows regulators. It shows auditors. It shows the market.

In Europe, SMX's planned collaboration with REDWAVE takes this one step further by integrating verification into production itself. The conveyor line becomes an enforcement mechanism. Each unit of material is validated in real time, creating a live reflection of compliance rather than a quarterly or annual claim.

And in North America, SMX's work with the North American Flame Retardant Alliance introduces a safety framework rooted in measurable chemistry instead of paperwork. Regulators can finally confirm compliance inside the product, not after an incident. This turns safety into a proactive discipline rather than a forensic one.

The First System Where Materials Themselves Are the Source of Truth

With SMX's technology embedded directly into products, enforcement is no longer adversarial. It becomes automatic. Manufacturers gain clarity rather than fear. Regulators move from policing to monitoring. Insurers get quantifiable risk instead of actuarial speculation. Consumers receive goods backed by data instead of marketing language.

In this system, sustainability is not an opinion. It is a reading. Safety is not a claim. It is a measurable property. Recycling is not a pledge. It is a trail of evidence.

Global promises failed because the world lacked visibility. SMX is rebuilding the sustainability framework with reality baked in, molecule by molecule. It is turning the physical world into a trustworthy one-not through speeches, but through chemistry.

The shift is already underway. And the future of sustainability will not be written on paper. It will be written inside the materials themselves.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about future events related to SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its molecular marking technologies, and their potential adoption across regulatory, industrial, and commercial environments.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, without limitation, expectations regarding the scalability, performance, and market acceptance of SMX's molecular identification systems; anticipated outcomes of its collaborations with A*STAR in Singapore, REDWAVE in Europe, and the North American Flame Retardant Alliance; the potential for SMX technology to enhance or replace existing verification, recycling, or safety frameworks; and assumptions about regulatory trends, sustainability mandates, industrial traceability standards, and demand for material-level authentication in global supply chains.

These statements are based on current assumptions and projections, which are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including changes in regulatory requirements, geopolitical conditions, supply-chain volatility, competitive technologies, partner implementation risks, operational challenges, and factors outlined in SMX's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

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