Svante Opens First Commercial Carbon Capture Gigafactory in British Columbia
(P&GJ) — Svante Technologies has completed commissioning of its new carbon capture filter manufacturing plant in Burnaby, British Columbia — the first facility of its kind designed to produce commercial volumes of carbon capture and removal filters.
The 141,000-square-foot “Redwood” facility is equipped to manufacture enough solid sorbent filters to capture up to 10 million tonnes of CO₂ per year — equivalent to emissions from more than 27 million cars. Svante’s filters use a patented metal-organic framework (MOF) coating to trap CO₂ from industrial emissions and the atmosphere.
"Today, we are making history,” said Claude Letourneau, president and CEO of Svante. “This gigafactory is a critical step forward in building the infrastructure necessary to scale up the carbon management industry and to build a marketplace for physical CO₂.”
Svante is currently targeting sectors with high-concentration emissions, such as pulp and paper, ethanol, and waste-to-energy, while continuing work on projects in harder-to-abate sectors like cement, steel, and fossil fuels. The new facility supports both point-source carbon capture and direct air capture (DAC) applications, including supply partnerships with Climeworks.
Backed by a $145 million capital investment, the facility is supported by investors including Chevron New Energies, Temasek, United Airlines Ventures, GE Vernova, and others.
“We’re also proud to launch this transformative manufacturing facility in Canada,” Letourneau said, “which allows us to bring the supply chain to our shores and bring carbon management solutions closer to the needs of emitting industries in North America.”
Svante says more gigafactories like Redwood will be needed over the next decade to meet rising demand in the global carbon capture market.
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