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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Origin Materials

November 11, 2024 | Jim Lane

This presentation deck introduces Origin Materials”’ Furanics” platform, a technology utilizing readily available, low-cost biomass sources like cotton trash and wood chips to create carbon-negative materials. The platform’s core technology, “CMF” (5-Chloro-methyl-furfural), boasts a broad range of applications spanning textiles, packaging, automotive, and construction, leading to a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative to traditional petroleum-based […]

European Energy Exchange to launch quarterly French biogas Guarantee of Origins

October 23, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In France, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) will start quarterly auctions for biogas Guarantees of Origin (GOs) on behalf of the French Ministry of Energy on December 4, 2024. At the auctions, the French State sells GOs produced by selected biogas facilities benefiting from a state support mechanism. EEX already provides registry services for biogas […]

Origin Materials to reduce headcount nearly 30%

September 30, 2024 | Rebecca Gendron

In California, Origin Materials is cutting its workforce by 28% and focusing its commercial activities on its polyethylene terephthalate caps business. John Bissell, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Origin Materials, said the move it to proactively reallocate resources. “Our first caps customer has signed an [memorandum of understanding] for billions of caps, totaling over $100 million […]

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Origin Materials, the investment perspective

September 15, 2024 | Jim Lane

A handful of industrial biotechnology companies have the strength and purpose to make it as a public company — others remain private, are acquired, or wind down. What makes companies able to succeed with public investors? What combination of product mix, experienced management, technologies that excel, capital at work, and effective vision make it possible […]

Future Origins and the Biobased Chemicals Market Wigwag

April 21, 2024 | Jim Lane

News arrived earlier this year that Geno, Unilever, Kao, and L’Oréal have named their joint venture which aims to make alternatives to petroleum and palm for surfactant ingredients used in laundry detergent and cosmetics. They’ve chosen Future Origins as the moniker. Yes, there’s a Market Says here, “USDA forecasting palm oil consumption in 2023-24 to […]

Origin by Ocean and AFRY to develop biorefinery processing seaweed in Finland

November 20, 2023 | Meghan Sapp

In Finland, Origin by Ocean and AFRY have entered a collaborative engineering collaboration to plan an industrial-scale biorefinery for processing bio-based seaweed products in Finland. The conceptual study phases aim to define production concepts and the steps required to construct a biorefinery. Origin by Ocean’s first algae biorefinery in Finland is projected to reach full […]

Be Here Now: The Origin Materials version as the company shifts to nearer-term products

November 20, 2023 | Jim Lane

Origin Materials announced 30 percent reduction in force earlier today. For several months, since the disclosure of long timelines for Origin’s first commercial OM2 project amidst soaring costs for debt and equity, observers had already surmised that Origin was going to be unable to realize its ambitions without a leaner organization, and a re-think of […]

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Origin Materials

November 7, 2023 | Jim Lane

Origin is the world’s leading carbon negative materials company. The Origin platform turns the carbon found in biomass into useful materials, while eliminating the need for fossil resources and capturing carbon in the process. Origin Co-CEO John Bissell took us through the hard data and company horizons with these slides presented at ABLC Next 2023.

Origin Materials begins commercial-scale production at Origin 1

October 17, 2023 | Rebecca Gendron

In Sarnia, Ontario, biobased chemicals maker Origin Materials has begun commercial-scale production at Origin 1. The Sarnia plant is Origin’s first large production asset and the first commercial plant of its kind. The facility uses Origin’s technology for converting sustainable wood residues into intermediate chemicals, including chloromethylfurfural, hydrothermal carbon, and oils and extractives. These building […]

I Think I Love You, So What Am I So Afraid Of?: Inside the stock plunge of Origin Materials

August 13, 2023 | Jim Lane

Late last week, following the Q2 earnings announce, the stock price for Origin Materials dropped by 66 per cent in a day, and you might think the company announced it had a) announced bankruptcy, b) abandoned its core technology or c) revealed misdeeds by management that could lead to prison and ruin — none of […]