Carbon Recycling International

Carbon Recycling International (CRI) leads in power to methanol technology. The company produces renewable methanol from carbon dioxide, hydrogen and electricity for fuel applications, greener chemicals, and products. CRI works with partners to develop transformative projects, increasing resource efficiency and creating valuable products from waste gases and renewable energy. CRI designs, engineers, and implements methanol production plants based on their Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL) technology platform. The company's solutions are environmentally friendly and do not impact the food chain or land use.

The CirclEnergy project aims to reduce society’s dependency on fossil fuels by facilitating the expansion of CRI’s innovative Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL) technology. In capturing industrial emissions and converting them into green fuels and chemicals, CRI’s ETL platform is a key enabling technology for a transition to a circular economy in which maximum value is extracted from each carbon molecule. The same process has the potential to address key challenges to the integration of renewable energy sources into power systems and support the energy transition in transport. The project aims to achieve objectives such as carbon reduction, grid stabilization, and renewable fuel production.

Being the first company to produce liquid fuel at an industrial scale from carbon dioxide, CRI's unique experience allows the company to qualify a pipeline of commercial-scale projects in Europe and China. Simultaneously CRI seeks to advance its proprietary process and product offerings by partnering with external parties on the development of pilot projects funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program, demonstrating key features of its ETL platform and advancing enabling technologies.

With CirclEnergy being one of its many projects, others are FreSMe, GAMER, George Olah Renewable Methanol Plant, MefCO₂, and the Shunli Plant.