OCOchem Announces First Product Shipment

Collaboration expands the use of affordable and sustainable carbon-neutral and fossil-free formates for usage in industry, agriculture, and as liquid energy carriers.

In his debut appearance on the Digest podcast, OCOchem CEO Todd Brix joins Jim Lane to explore how regenerating biogenic CO₂ into formate could unlock a new platform molecule for the 21st-century bioeconomy.

The recognition highlights OCOchem's development of the Carbon FluX Electrolyzer for the conversion of CO2 into formate molecules.

OCOchem and ADM announce a production partnership between the companies to build an innovative new CO2 conversion facility at one of ADM's existing locations.

OCOchem, in partnership with Mobivolt, announces the completion of a prototype, Hydrogen Formate Reformer, which decomposes hydrogen formate to generate 99.99% pure Hydrogen which can be used in hydrogen fuel cells and other applications.

Facility represents the first industrial-scale application of a CO2 Electrolysis process using commercial grade and size gas diffusion electrodes measuring 1.5m2 each in surface area.

What if we could pull CO₂ straight from the air and turn it into a valuable chemical, without fossil inputs? OCOchem and Aircapture collaborated with The University of Alabama on a newly published study in RSC Sustainability that demonstrates exactly that.

After 3 years of CO2 electrolyzer scale-up, OCOchem is now scaling out. GeekWire’s STARTUP coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene, with this edition focusing on OCOchem's growing momentum.

OCOchem Co-Founder and CEO Todd Brix shares with The Chemical Engineer magazine why CO2 Electrolysis is the process and Formate is the molecule for best converting CO2 into useful fossil-free organic molecules.

We hear a lot about CO2, but how much do we know about its importance to life on this planet?

Collaboration with US Army develops safer and sustainable organic platform molecule at lower cost than existing fossil-based pathways.

The climate tech company’s innovation converts CO2 and water into sustainable platform molecules for use in agriculture, energy, and transportation.

Award will be used to improve and scale technology to make large quantities of formic acid to develop safer and more cost-effective ways to make, distribute, and use clean hydrogen

OCOchem joins list of Evergreen Manufacturing Grant recipients, designed to create new jobs in manufacturing, research and development.

The OCOchem CEO was a guest speaker on the podcast to discuss nature's C02 recycling model and the necessity of sweeping, speedy scaling.

Centralia Coal Transition Board awards grant to support OCOchem's Formic Liquid Hydrogen Carrier Clean Energy Demonstration Project

OCOchem is excited to announce that we have commissioned our first industrial-scale CO2 electrolyzer prototype to make formate and formic acid.

OCOchem was honored to be the first start-up or small business in the Pacific Northwest to be awarded the Energy Organization Leadership Award at the 2022 Energy Leadership Achievement Awards, formerly known as the CleanTech Awards.

OCOchem wins extension of contract to develop large-scale prototype electrolyzer to make non-corrosive deicing chemical for U.S. Army

AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to design and engineer a system to use waste steam from fertilizer plant to directly capture CO2 from the air and convert it to a green electro-fuel.

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.