OCOchem Awarded $1.5M Grant
OCOchem and global partners awarded Washington state Clean Energy Fund Research Development & Demonstration grant to create green energy power generator for refrigerated cargo containers at the Port of Tacoma.
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July, 2021
OCOchem received official award finalization from DOE’s Advanced Research Project Agency, to scale the Carbon Flux Electrolyzer to an industrial grade height.
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February, 2020
OCOchem was selected in the first accelerator cohort class of Halliburton Labs, who will assist OCO in accelerating the commercial deployment of OCO technology.
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November, 2020
OCOchem consolidates its Research & Development work into the Applied Processing Engineering Laboratory located in the Tri-Cities Research District in Richland, Washington after its lab and offices in Blue River, Oregon were destroyed by the Holiday Farm Fire on September 7, 2020.
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August, 2020
The US Army awards OCOchem its first commercial contract to produce formate.
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July, 2020
OCOchem and its partners (the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Rice University and the University of Delaware) are awarded a 3-year grant by the DOE Bio Energy Technology Office. OCOchem will lead scale-up commercialization efforts leveraging its leading CO2 electrolyzer scale-up expertise.
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June, 2020
OCOchem enters into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to develop formate conversion pathways for derivative products with the assistance of winning a prestigious Technology Commercialization Fund grant.
November, 2018
OCOchem closes its initial seed round of investment from Bend Venture and U.S. angel investors.
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September, 2018
OCO and its R&D partners (DNV, Montana State University and South Florida University) are awarded a 3–year grant by the DOE Bio Energy Technology Office to scale OCOchem’s elecrolyzer and to develop the first e-formic derivative process, a bioreactor-intermediated process to synthesize monoethylene glycol.
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