Rivan Industries

What Rivan Industries does

Rivan Industries is a UK-based, vertically integrated producer of synthetic natural gas (SNG) that targets hard-to-abate heavy industry — including steel, cement, chemicals, and aviation — as well as downstream gas-grid users, with the functional objective of displacing fossil natural gas via a drop-in substitute compatible with existing UK and European distribution infrastructure. The company was founded by serial entrepreneur Harvey Hodd and is headquartered in Lewisham, London, with manufacturing operations anchored at Production Base 1, a 50,000 sq ft facility in South London capable of producing up to 50MW of hardware per year. Its flagship deployment, Project Starwell, is a 15MW commercial SNG plant in Wiltshire that obtained planning permission in February 2026, with the company claiming the first such consent for a grid-connected SNG facility in the UK.

Rivan designs and manufactures modular SNG plants that integrate three proprietary, in-house technologies: a calcium-looping direct air capture (DAC) system that extracts CO2 from ambient air, an alkaline water electrolyser that produces green hydrogen, and a Sabatier reactor that combines these inputs into methane (CH4) at 99.9% purity. The integrated system is powered by off-grid DC solar arrays designed to bypass grid transmission constraints, with management claiming a unit cost below £150k per 1MW of installed capacity and a target of fossil-fuel price parity within 3–4 years. In September 2025 the company became the first to qualify its SNG output against the UK GS(M)R gas-quality specification required for grid injection, and in April 2026 it signed a partnership with Wales & West Utilities to deliver its first grid-connected commercial deployment.

The business model combines two revenue streams: long-term offtake contracts with industrial gas buyers (heavy industry verticals plus municipal gas distribution), and an emerging machine-sale/lease channel targeted at solar developers and incumbent oil & gas producers seeking to add carbon-neutral gas output to existing portfolios. The orderbook is reported as fully contracted through 2029, with customer contract count having tripled year-on-year. Rivan has raised approximately £35M (~$46M) across a £10M seed round in May 2025 (led by Plural) and a £25M Series A in April 2026 (led by IQ Capital), and has set a long-term production target of 1bcm/yr of SNG by 2036 — equivalent to roughly 20% of UK industrial natural gas demand.

Name

Rivan Industries

Legal name

Rivan Industries LTD

Website

https://rivan.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Rivan Industries is a UK-based vertically integrated producer of modular synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants that combine direct air capture, alkaline electrolysis, and Sabatier reactors to deliver drop-in fuel for steel, cement, chemicals, aviation, and gas-grid offtakers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Synthetic Fuels Manufacturing

NAICS

Industrial Gas Manufacturing (32512), Natural Gas Distribution (221210)

SIC

Natural Gas Transmisison & Distribution (4923), Cogeneration Services & Small Power Producers (4991)

akta.pro primary industry

On-Site Gas Generation Systems (IMAEACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Gas Processing Plant Equipment & Skids (Separators, Heat Exchangers, Turboexpanders) (EUAAABAH), Industrial Gas Infrastructure & Metering (Onsite Storage, PRS, Metering, SCADA) (EUALALAH), Gas-to-Power Project Development (IPP/CPP, Permitting, Financing) (EUALALAC)

Keywords

• Synthetic natural gas
• Direct air capture
• Modular SNG plants
• Green hydrogen electrolysis
• Carbon-neutral industrial fuels

Headquarters

HQ city

Lewisham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) sales via gas grid injection: Rivan's primary revenue stream is producing carbon-neutral synthetic natural gas from its plants and injecting it directly into the existing UK and European gas grid. Rivan aims to achieve price parity with fossil fuels within the next 3-4 years and produce up to 1bcm/yr (20% of UK industrial demand) by 2036.
2. Machine sales and leasing: Secondary revenue stream where Rivan will explore selling and leasing its SNG systems directly to other operators, including current solar developers and oil & gas producers, offering a clean, scalable, long-term revenue stream.
3. Long-term offtake contracts: Rivan tripled its customer contracts and sold its entire planned production through 2029, indicating long-term contract-based revenue from industrial off-takers in hard-to-abate sectors.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Rivan Industries designs, builds, and operates modular, vertically integrated synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants that combine calcium-looping direct air capture of CO2, alkaline water electrolysis for green hydrogen, and a Sabatier methanation reactor to produce 99.9% pure drop-in methane for injection into the UK and European gas grid. The company manufactures the SNG machines at a 50,000 sq ft facility in Wales, deploys them with off-grid DC solar arrays, and sells the resulting synthetic gas to heavy industry under long-term offtake contracts, with a planned secondary pathway of selling or leasing the SNG machines to third-party operators.

Product overview

Rivan Industries is a vertically integrated synthetic fuel producer offering a single unified product line — the Rivan Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) System — composed of three core, in-house designed and manufactured modules: a Calcium-looping Direct Air Capture (DAC) Module, an Alkaline Water Electrolyser Module, and a Sabatier Reactor Module. The system is powered by a vertically integrated Off-grid DC Solar Array and connects directly to the European gas grid (including the Wales & West Utilities network in the UK) as a drop-in replacement for fossil gas. The company's commercial footprint includes the Wiltshire 1MW Pilot Plant (deployed), the 15MW Project Starwell flagship plant in Wiltshire (under construction), the 50,000 sq ft Production Base 1 manufacturing facility in South London (opening mid-2026 with 50MW/year capacity), and a planned 1bcm/year production target by 2036 to supply hard-to-electrify industries such as steel, cement, chemicals, and aviation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rivan SNG System A modular, vertically integrated synthetic natural gas (SNG) plant combining calcium-looping direct air capture, alkaline water electrolysis, Sabatier methanation, and off-grid DC solar arrays to produce 99.9% pure methane compliant with UK GS(M)R grid specifications. Designed for hard-to-abate industrial buyers, gas utilities, and renewable energy operators that need drop-in fuel or grid injection without downstream infrastructure changes.
• Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) Carbon-neutral drop-in synthetic methane produced by the Rivan SNG System and sold to heavy industrial off-takers in steel, cement, chemicals, and aviation, or injected into the UK and European gas grid via partnership with Wales & West Utilities. Sold under long-term offtake contracts priced at parity with fossil natural gas.
• SNG Machine Sales and Leasing A planned commercial pathway under which Rivan sells or leases SNG machines to third-party operators such as solar developers and oil & gas producers, paired with long-term SNG offtake contracts that secure Rivan's purchase of the produced gas. Enables operators to deploy Rivan hardware at renewable or oil & gas sites without building their own downstream fuel offtake capability.

Quantifiable outcome

• Displaces approximately 2kg of CO2 per cubic meter of SNG produced
• +5 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• CarbonCapture Inc. US-based DAC technology developer building MegaHubs for atmospheric CO2 capture. Comparable as a vertically integrated DAC developer focused on industrial-scale deployment, although CarbonCapture's CO2 utilization and downstream chemistry differs from Rivan's SNG pathway.
• Climeworks: Swiss DAC technology company with the largest operating DAC facility (Mammoth in Iceland) and a partnership with 1PointFive for US-scale deployment. Direct peer in DAC technology development targeting industrial buyers and carbon removal credits.
• Infinium: US-based e-fuels company producing green hydrogen, e-fuels, and synthetic CO2-based products using captured carbon. Direct peer in synthetic fuel/e-fuel production serving hard-to-abate sectors with similar hydrogen and CO2 utilization pathways.
• HIF Global: Chile-based e-fuels producer developing synthetic gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from green hydrogen and captured CO2. Direct peer in synthetic fuel production for aviation and heavy transport, using comparable DAC + electrolyser + synthesis technology stack.
• Sunfire: German-based company developing solid-oxide electrolyser and synthetic fuel technology, including e-fuels and synthetic methane. Direct peer in electrolyser and Sabatier/methanation technology development for industrial decarbonization.
• TES (Tree Energy Solutions): German-based green hydrogen and synthetic natural gas producer using green H2 and biogenic CO2 to produce e-methane. Direct peer in synthetic natural gas production for grid injection and industrial customers in Europe.
• Norsk e-Fuel: Norwegian synthetic e-fuel producer developing commercial-scale e-kerosene plants using green H2 and DAC-captured CO2. Direct peer in synthetic fuel production targeting aviation and hard-to-abate sectors with similar technology architecture.

Emerging players

• 1PointFive: US-based DAC deployment company building STRATOS, one of the world's largest planned DAC facilities using Climeworks technology. Comparable as a DAC scaling play targeting industrial carbon removal buyers, though primarily selling carbon credits rather than synthetic fuel output.
• Atmosfair: German non-profit/company developing synthetic aviation fuel (e-kerosene) and carbon offset programs from green H2 and captured CO2. Comparable as an early-stage e-fuel producer targeting aviation decarbonization, though organized around offset purchases rather than merchant fuel sales.

Broad incumbents

• Heidelberg Materials (formerly HeidelbergCement): One of the world's largest cement producers actively piloting carbon capture and CCUS technologies at industrial scale. Comparable as a heavy-industry end-customer and potential offtaker for Rivan's SNG in cement decarbonization, plus an operator of competing capture technologies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors6 records

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M&A

Investments

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