Materials & Manufacturing

What we make

Innovations across the whole life cycle and value chain of materials and products we make and use. Advances in primary materials, intermediate and end products, manufacturing processes and supply chain traceability that directly or indirectly reduce carbon emissions, are resource efficient, and valorize waste and by-products through circular material flows.

Carbon Removal And Utilization

Capture of atmospheric carbon and other GHG’s using engineered and hybrid (engineered & natural based) processes, and their utilization to generate novel materials with a net negative carbon impact, or alternatively, permanent removal and storage.

Capture

Innovative materials and energy efficient methods for carbon and GHG’s capture with high selectivity and high conversion, also at atmospheric concentrations and across earth systems (air, land and ocean).

MRV

Enhancing monitoring, reporting and verification methodologies and frameworks to ensure integrity and quality of carbon removal actions.

Transformation

Process innovations for chemical and biological transformation of CO2 into value-added products, e.g. production of bio-oils, specialty chemicals, polymers, fuels and construction material.

Transportation and Storage

Conditioning, transporting and storing captured CO2 in a secure and cost-effective way, including innovations in monitoring of storage sites and verification of their integrity.

Circularity

Innovations in materials, processes, infrastructure and connectivity between stakeholders that enable materials, components, products, by-products and waste (biomass and inert) to be kept in use, recovered, recycled or regenerated in a circular system, such that waste generation is minimized and resource use is optimized.

Product Design

Designing with attributes that support circularity such as longevity, durability, biodegradability, recyclability, modularity and disassembly.

Waste Management

Innovations in sorting, recycling and recovery processes and infrastructure for optimal conversion and utilization of waste (biomass and inert materials) for the production of new raw materials.

Resource Transparency

Connecting between economic as well as civic players. Tracer technologies (physical, digital or biological) that allow to identify a product and capture, store, share and analyze data throughout its lifecycle, enabling trading, industrial symbiosis, recycling and in general, exchange of data between stakeholders leading to material valorization.

Clean Manufacturing

Improvements and optimization, through both software and hardware, of industrial production processes and system maintenance that minimize energy and resource use, and reduce waste at the plant level.

Process Innovation

Innovations that reduce the energy intensity of production and conditioning processes such as separation, filtration, drying, chemical and plasma synthesis. Material substitution and additive manufacturing.

Resource Efficiency

Optimization of operating parameters and implementation of predictive maintenance leading to reduced use of energy, water, fluids and materials, elimination of waste that results from overproduction, overprocessing and defects, product design to increase manufacturing efficiency.

Resource Recovery

Implementation of advanced recovery and recycling for materials. Recovery of low temperature waste heat and water from cooling towers.

Novel Materials

Innovative materials and chemicals with a low carbon footprint and sustainable land use, high performance materials with superior longevity and robustness and materials that facilitate lower resource and energy use for carbon intensive sectors such as energy, mobility, infrastructure, chemical & industrial processes, packaging and textiles.

Biodegradable Materials

Innovations in biodegradability of polymers whilst ensuring high performance of properties vital to applications.

Low Emission Enablers

Materials that their incorporation into products facilitates lower operational emissions (e.g. lightweight composites and novel catalysts) or material efficiency (i.e. enabling a lesser amount of material to be used whilst retaining the same function, such as a reinforcement material).

Technology Enablers

Novel materials that are imperative to a climate-tech breakthrough that enable its implementation. e.g. novel conductors that lower the working temperature of a fuel cell or phase change materials for thermal storage.

Novel Refrigerants

Next generation non-hazardous refrigerants with low greenhouse warming potential.

Biomaterials

Materials generated from a renewable and sustainable bio-based source (including low or carbon negative plant, fungi and algae sources and by-products) as well as waste streams (such as urban and agricultural biowaste and waste-water sludge) and via microbial and enzymatic processes.

Transparent And Agile Supply Chains

Technologies, data analytics and decision making tools to achieve energy efficiency and waste minimization as well as transparency and agility with regard to emissions, climate risk and land degradation across the entire supply chain operation.