Newlight and Long Ridge to build PHB production facility in Ohio

Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.

Newlight Technologies and Long Ridge Energy Terminal (jointly owned by a subsidiary of Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC and an affiliate managed by GCM Grosvenor) have entered into various agreements providing for the construction and operation of a new facility in Ohio (Aircarbon-Ohio) to produce PHB, a biomaterial that the company calls Aircarbon.

Figure 1. Aircarbon production facility in Ohio

Founded in 2003, Newlight is the first company to directly transform greenhouse gases into PHB at commercial scale. Newlight launched its first commercial-scale Aircarbon production facility in 2020, and today Newlight's customers and partners include Shake Shack, Nike, Target, H&M, Ben & Jerry's, Sumitomo, US Foods, and Sysco, with millions of Aircarbon units delivered to consumers to date. 

AirCarbon competes on performance with various grades of polypropylene, the second largest-volume plastic in the world. With a variety of potential industries to serve, Newlight's primary focus is on addressing ocean plastic pollution by displacing plastic in the foodware market, starting with straws, cutlery, and coated paper products. In addition to foodware, Newlight is also seeding expansion in automotive and fashion applications.

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