About my Start-up
Clean Tech start up, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
5 years R&D, raised £5.6m to date from VC and Private Wealth, about 40% 60% respectively.
We’re Clean-Teching the carbon trail:
Industrial level, high-purity carbons are key building blocks in tomorrow’s sustainable future, and are primarily derived from mined fossil sources.
Bio-carbon, an evolving alternative, is lower carbon purity and is decades away from any substantial replacement of mined carbons.
Our Platform Technology:
Applicable from Industry to agriculture, from fossil carbons to bio-carbons.
Our Initial Focus:
Carbon dependent steel and silicon industries, two crucial components in building tomorrow’s sustainable infrastructure.
Green steel & silicon still require carbon, it’s elemental to their formation.
The Problem:
High production chain wastage in refining this carbon product.
The Wastes:
Fine particles, sized from a grain of rice to a hair’s diameter.
The Present:
Discarded at cost to landfills or sold undervalued as low-cost CO2 producing fuels.
The Future:
Legislation is closing the fuel route, wastes now become a costly environmental disposal problem.
Our Solution:
Turns these wastes from environmental cost streams into green commercially viable profit streams.
Our Technology:
Re-specifies this waste to meet transportation & handling logistics for use in advanced low CO2, high temperature, electric arc furnace processes producing re-cycled steel and silicon metal.
Independent Studies:
Cranfield University’s sustainability group have shown that our technology, recycling these wastes, reduces producers’ scope 3 emissions by 8%-70% and overall life cycle CO2e by 1%-7%.
The Market Challenge:
No one has been able to deliver the technology to industrially produce a specification pellet meeting both the industrial & commercial requirements.
Now, after 5 years of R&D, we have the solution, we have the traction.
Greener raw resources from wastes. Turning wastes into profits.
Why your idea is a “winner"?:
Here is why we’re a winner.
We have achieved something that has not been done before.
We’ve developed a technology that lets re-cycled carbons be used in steel & silicon processes.
How do we know this? – Two independent market studies, but more importantly, “Traction”
For the last 12 months we have been in testing & negotiations with 3* major global industrial companies, leaders in the steel & silicon sectors, who came to us to provide the solutions they seek.
USA – leading industrial carbon producer to USA steel market.
E.U. – USA owned, major producer of carbon reductants for the silicon process.
Scandinavia – global silicon metal producer – end-user of the E.U. carbon reductants.
Multi-million and billon $ turnover companies committed to reduce and recycle their carbon waste.
Established relationships in place with NDA’s & mou’s.
*NDA restrictions, will discuss further detail with investors once under NDA
How do we benefit from this?
From one of these relationships, we’ll sign our first licensing agreement this year & have first unit commercial in 2024.
The second will follow closely behind.
We’re on track to move to commercialisation in next 18-24 months.
We have an R&D pipeline with a great Blue Sky technology.
Value creation from industrial legacy coal fly ash & organic wastes
Distribution to desert environments for agro-forestry schemes (circular economy)
R&D for 3 years now at TRL3/4
Our overall platform technology is applicable to variety of wastes from mining, industry to agriculture.
Reprocess discarded wastes from high-purity industrial carbons to biomass to bio-carbons.
Enabling greener raw materials from wastes – lower CO2 to net zero
Turns waste cost streams into revenue streams.
What is your current or intended business/revenue model?:
License our technology
licensees will purchase our patented process plant & formula & pay a royalty per ton
We supply the licensee (producer) with the technology, and they manufacture the pellets to their specification
Not a producer or manufacturer we are a Clean Tech solutions provider
Not a labour or capital intensive company. Capex growth funded by licensees
Outsource our process plant & formula, under patent control
Licensees pay us a royalty per ton of pellets they produce
Do you have any Patent or IP registered (related to the solution that you are looking for an investment)?:
Our Technology is complex, it’s a combination of formula & process, on which we have 3 patents pending; two as International PCT’s and one as UK.
Patent 1 – Formula
Patent 2 – Process
Patent 3 – Core Densification Unit – CT08
These are supported with trade secrets and proprietary knowledge giving us that unique edge
Has your technology already been implemented in any field/sector?:
In final stages of intense series of testing which will move us to live industrial testing in Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF), one a 20Mw Continuous EAF unit in Norway or Iceland, and one a 30Mw Start/Stop Steel Recycling EAF unit in USA.
For the last 12 months we have been in testing with 3* major global industrial companies, leaders in the steel & silicon sectors, who came to us to provide the solutions they seek.
USA – leading industrial carbon producer to USA steel market.
E.U. – USA owned, major producer of carbon reductants for the silicon process.
Scandinavia – global silicon metal producer – end-user of the E.U. carbon reductants.
Multi-million and billon $ turnover companies committed to reduce and recycle their carbon waste.
Established relationships in place with NDA’s & MoU’s.
*NDA restrictions, will discuss further detail with investors once under NDA
Which market and customer need(s)/problem(s) is (are) your products(s)/service(s) going to solve?:
Our Initial Focus Market; Carbon dependent steel and silicon industries, two crucial components in building tomorrow’s sustainable infrastructure.
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. Carbon/silica reaction produces silicon metal.
Green steel & silicon still require carbon, it’s elemental to their formation.
Increasing global steel & silicon demand is driving high-purity carbon demand, and green transitioning in supply chains will exacerbate its scarcity & value.
The Problem: High production chain wastage in refining this carbon product.
The Wastes: Fine particles, sized from a grain of rice to the diameter of a hair.
The Present: Discarded at cost to landfills or sold undervalued as low-cost CO2 producing fuels.
The Future: Legislation is closing the fuel route, wastes now become a costly environmental disposal problem.
Our Solution: Turns these wastes from environmental cost streams into green commercially viable profit streams.
Global market, with key focus EU, Scandinavia, Canada & USA, South America and Australia.
Later possibilities are India and China.
Future R&D Pipeline Blue Sky technology now at TRL 3/4, AgriForm targeted as arid soil enhancement.
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