What CarbonOrO does

CarbonOrO Holding B.V., founded in 2013 and headquartered in Naarden-Vesting, Netherlands, develops post-combustion CO2 capture technology for industrial hard-to-abate emitters. Its core innovation is a proprietary bi-phasic amine solvent — based on patents acquired from AkzoNobel and Afira and research from Eindhoven University of Technology and TNO — that regenerates at 105-120°C and 4-6 bar, reducing energy use by ~40% versus industry-standard monoethanolamine (MEA) and limiting oxidative and thermal degradation.

The technology is packaged into standardized, factory-built 20-foot containerized Carbon Capture Units (CCUs) rated at up to 100 kt CO2/year per unit, with a 10 kt/yr Mobile Testing Unit (MTU) used for pilots. CarbonOrO monetizes through three commercial models: sale of modular CCU hardware, technology licensing on a rights-based (reseller) and royalty-based (end-user) structure, and Carbon Capture as a Service (CCaaS), an outcome-based per-tonne-CO2 offering. Customers and pilot partners span waste-to-energy (AVR in the Netherlands), steel (ArcelorMittal), bricks and construction materials (Vandersanden), the six-major GCCA cement consortium (CEMEX, Holcim, SCG, Titan, UltraTech, Votorantim), and oil & gas (TotalEnergies feasibility study).

As of late 2024 CarbonOrO remains a venture-backed pre-commercial company with fewer than 10 employees and a €4.1 million Series A (Dec 2022) led by Icos Capital with INPEX Corporation and Putifer. Recent validation includes a Leapsprong competition win (Dec 2024) with Cargill, Paebbl and Orbix Belgium, the EU Framework Program-funded Carbon4Minerals pilot, and Climate Champion recognition from Climate-KIC at COP21 (2015). The company describes itself as taking the final steps before commercial roll-out, with three revenue streams (hardware, licensing, CCaaS) not yet at scale.

Name

CarbonOrO

Legal name

CarbonOrO Holding B.V.

Website

https://carbonoro.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CarbonOrO develops a proprietary bi-phasic amine solvent and modular 20-foot containerized Carbon Capture Units that cut CO2 capture energy use by ~40% versus MEA, serving industrial hard-to-abate emitters in cement, steel, waste-to-energy, and biogas through hardware sales, licensing, and a per-tonne Carbon Capture as a Service (CCaaS) offering.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Carbon Capture Technology

NAICS

Carbon and Graphite Product Manufacturing (335991), Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing (32519)

akta.pro primary industry

Post-combustion Capture Systems (Solid Sorbents & Structured Adsorbents) (EUABAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

E‑Fuels & Synthetic Hydrocarbons (e‑kerosene, e‑diesel, e‑gasoline, e‑methane) (EUABAIAA), Carbon Removal Project Development, Financing & Offtake (Developers, Aggregators, Buyers Clubs) (EUABAFAL), Carbon‑Based Carbon Materials (graphite, carbon black, CNTs, graphene from CO₂/CO) (EUABAIAG), Functional Carbon Fillers (Carbon Black, Graphite) (IMAEAFAO)

Keywords

• Industrial carbon capture
• Amine solvent technology
• Post-combustion CO2 capture
• Modular capture units
• Capture as a service

Headquarters

HQ city

Nijmegen

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Carbon Capture Unit hardware sales: Sale of standardized modular CCU containers (single units up to 100 kt CO2/year, currently deploying 10 kt/yr Mobile Testing Units) to industrial emitters as capital equipment.
2. Licensing — rights-based (resellers) and royalty-based (end users): Future/planned revenue from licensing the proprietary solvent and process technology: territory-based rights to resellers and per-tonne or per-unit royalties from end users deploying the technology.
3. Carbon Capture as a Service (CCaaS): Outcome-based service where the company is paid per tonne of CO2 captured, converting capex into opex for industrial customers.
4. Professional services — feasibility studies and pilots: Revenue from feasibility studies (e.g., for TotalEnergies and the GCCA consortium) and pilot deployments (e.g., with AVR) that de-risk customer adoption and feed the hardware/CCaaS pipeline.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CarbonOrO provides industrial post-combustion carbon capture solutions built on a proprietary bi-phasic amine solvent. The technology is commercialized through standardized 20-ft containerized Carbon Capture Units (up to 100 kt CO2/year each), technology licensing (rights-based for resellers and royalty-based for end users), and a Carbon Capture as a Service (CCAAS) offering paid per tonne of CO2 captured.

Product overview

CarbonOrO delivers industrial carbon capture solutions built around a single core proprietary technology — its bi-phasic amine solvent — packaged and commercialized through three distinct offerings: (1) Carbon Capture Units, standardized modular hardware that captures up to 100kt CO2/year per unit; (2) Licenses, which provide third parties (via rights-based or royalty-based models) with access to the bi-phasic amine technology for bespoke or large-scale installations; and (3) CCAAS (Carbon Capture as a Service), a pay-per-tonne service covering 5-50% CO2 in flue gases. Together, these three commercial offerings sit on top of the company's Mobile Testing Unit (MTU), which serves as the engineering reference design used in pilots (e.g., at AVR) and the basis for serial production of standardized 10-100 kt/yr modules. The architecture is therefore a single core technology (bi-phasic amine solvent) deployed through multiple go-to-market models (hardware, licensing, service) to industrial CO2 emitters in waste-to-energy, steel, brick, cement, glass, chemicals, oil & gas, and other hard-to-abate sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Carbon Capture Units Modular, standardized carbon capture units using CarbonOrO's bi-phasic amine solvent, delivered on 20-ft container frames and assembled off-site. A single unit captures up to 100 kt CO2/year with ~40% energy savings vs. industry-standard MEA, intended for industrial emitters in waste-to-energy, steel, cement, brick and other hard-to-abate sectors.
• Licenses (Rights-based and Royalty-based) Licensing of CarbonOrO's proprietary bi-phasic amine solvent and process technology for large bespoke installations, structured either as territory/industry-based rights for exclusive resellers or as per-unit royalties for end users.
• CCAAS (Carbon Capture as a Service) A complete value chain CC(U)S service using CarbonOrO's standard capture solution for flue gases with 5-50% CO2 content, priced per tonne of CO2 captured, converting capex into opex for industrial customers.
• Mobile Testing Unit (MTU) A 10 kt/yr capacity mobile carbon capture unit built from off-the-shelf parts across four 20-ft container frames (less than 70 m²), used as a pilot/demonstration platform and the design basis for serial production of standardized 10-100 kt/yr modules.

Quantifiable outcome

• ~40% energy savings vs. conventional MEA-based CO2 capture
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDutch applied research organization collaborating with CarbonOrO on technology development, validation and scale-up of the proprietary CO2 capture process.
• AkzoNobelcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSource of foundational patents that CarbonOrO acquired/in-licensed covering combinations of polymers, amines and solvents for CO2 capturing; origin point of the bi-phasic amine solvent IP.
• AfiracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdditional source of foundational patents (alongside AkzoNobel) covering combinations of polymers, amines and solvents for CO2 capture.
• Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrigin of the underlying solvent technology that became CarbonOrO's bi-phasic amine platform; ongoing academic/technology collaboration channel.
• TotalEnergiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommissioned a feasibility study from CarbonOrO to evaluate deployment of its CO2 capture technology within TotalEnergies' industrial asset base.
• Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommissioned a feasibility study from CarbonOrO; runs the GCCA Open Challenge in which CarbonOrO participates with a consortium of major cement companies (CEMEX, Holcim, SCG, Titan Cement, UltraTech Cement, Votorantim Cimentos).
• CEMEXmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the GCCA Open Challenge consortium evaluating CarbonOrO's CO2 capture and mineralization routes for cement and concrete applications.
• HolcimmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the GCCA Open Challenge consortium evaluating CarbonOrO's CO2 capture and mineralization routes for cement and concrete applications.
• SCG (Siam Cement Group)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the GCCA Open Challenge consortium evaluating CarbonOrO's CO2 capture and mineralization routes for cement and concrete applications.
• Titan CementmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the GCCA Open Challenge consortium evaluating CarbonOrO's CO2 capture and mineralization routes for cement and concrete applications.
• UltraTech CementmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the GCCA Open Challenge consortium evaluating CarbonOrO's CO2 capture and mineralization routes for cement and concrete applications.
• Votorantim CimentosmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of the GCCA Open Challenge consortium evaluating CarbonOrO's CO2 capture and mineralization routes for cement and concrete applications.
• Municipality of AmsterdamminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-organizer of the Leapsprong innovation program at Shell's Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam, in which CarbonOrO won the 2024 competition.
• Shell Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-organizer (with the Municipality of Amsterdam) of the Leapsprong program; hosted the competition CarbonOrO won in 2024.
• CargillminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-applicant with CarbonOrO on the Leapsprong 2024 winning proposal alongside Paebbl and Orbix Belgium, focused on CO2-to-products pathways.
• PaebblminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-applicant with CarbonOrO on the Leapsprong 2024 winning proposal alongside Cargill and Orbix Belgium, focused on CO2 mineralization into building materials.
• Orbix BelgiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-applicant with CarbonOrO on the Leapsprong 2024 winning proposal alongside Cargill and Paebbl.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Carbon Clean: UK-based point-source carbon capture specialist using amine-based solvent technology and standardized CycloneCC modular units for industrial emitters — directly comparable solvent chemistry, modular product format and hard-to-abate customer focus.
• Aker Carbon Capture: Norwegian-listed provider of amine-based post-combustion CCUS, including mobile Just Catch test units and modular 'Big' units targeting cement, waste-to-energy and blue hydrogen — competes head-to-head with CarbonOrO on solvent chemistry and modular deployment.
• ION Clean Energy: US developer of an advanced non-aqueous solvent for post-combustion CO2 capture targeting power, cement and industrial flue gas — same end-market and comparable next-generation solvent approach, but at a more advanced commercialization stage.
• CarbonCure Technologies: Canada-based carbon utilization player injecting captured CO2 into fresh concrete; serves many of the same cement/concrete majors CarbonOrO is courting via GCCA and provides a competing utilization pathway for cement industry CO2.
• LanzaTech: US/NZ carbon capture and utilization company using gas-fermenting microbes to convert captured CO2/CO into fuels and chemicals — operates in the same industrial point-source CCU value chain and competes for the same customer capex and CO2 feedstock.
• Climeworks: Swiss direct air capture (DAC) company commercializing modular containerized carbon capture units — overlaps with CarbonOrO on modular, containerized capture hardware and the broader CCUS value chain, though Climeworks focuses on DAC rather than point-source flue gas.

Broad incumbents

• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries: Operates the proprietary KM CDR Process (advanced amine-based post-combustion CO2 capture) as part of its broader energy and industrial portfolio; competes with CarbonOrO's bi-phasic amine offering for the same hard-to-abate industrial customers but is far larger and more diversified.
• Heidelberg Materials: One of the world's largest cement producers with major in-house CCUS initiatives (e.g., Geocapture/Capturemox at Brevik) — both a potential customer/partner (via GCCA) and a competitor building capture capability for the same cement segment CarbonOrO targets.
• Honeywell UOP: Established licensor of gas-treating solvents (e.g., Selexol, advanced amines) used for CO2/H2S separation in natural gas, syngas and petrochemical applications — broader process-industries incumbent whose solvent portfolio overlaps CarbonOrO's bi-phasic amine platform.

Others

• Paebbl: Dutch CO2-to-building-materials startup using mineralization to turn captured CO2 into supplementary cementitious materials — a direct Leapsprong 2024 co-applicant with CarbonOrO, occupying the downstream utilization side of the same value chain rather than the capture step.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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