Again, the German-Dananian Startup, which uses old bacteria to transform CO2 into new chemicals, builds a new bioreactor system in Texas.
The facility is located in Texas City, a large petrochemical park on the golf coast. The industrial center is managed by Diamond Infrastructure Solutions – a joint venture between chemicals -Riesendow and Macquarie Asset Management.
“We are building a global company, and that also means bringing our technology to new regions,” said Max Kufner, co -founder of again, to TNW. “In the United States, there is a high demand for our chemicals, especially for those that can be made sustainably on Shore.”
The new facility will capture CO2 from one of the refineries in Texas City. Then combine the gas with hydrogen and supply the preparation with a variety of thousands of bacteria. The little germs devour the brew and transform it into commercial connections such as acetate. This is the basic chemical in everything, from plastics and cosmetics to painting.
Most industrial acetate comes from fossil fuels. By using CO2, which would otherwise have entered the atmosphere, again aims to produce cleaner chemicals. The company claims that its CO2 fermenter can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions (THG) of chemical production by up to 80%.
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Petrochemical industry is responsible for 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions – twice as high as that of air travel – so that technology could have a major influence again. The company also claims that its product is inexpensive with the same chemicals made with fossil fuels.
Opened his first pilot facility in Copenhagen in 2023, which converts up to 1 ton of CO2 every day and turns it into acetate. The company is currently building a facility in Norway, which is from a 47th million. -Dollar scholarship from the Horizon Europe Research Initiative of the EU is supported.
Once again emerged from over a decade of research, which of Dr. Torbjørn Jensen and Professor Alex Nielsen was headed at the Technical University of Denmark. They teamed up with Kufner, a German former investor in the early stages, to found the startup in 2021. So far, according to the Dealroom, she has collected $ 150 million.
The company has already performed at the Diamond Texas City location, where it aims to build a new facility and start production within a year. In order to bring its low -carbon chemicals to the market, this again works with the German chemical distributor Helm and is aimed at heavy industries in the region as important customers.
