Renewable raw materials and climate technology company Perpetual Next establishes itself in the U.S. and announces the preparation for a joint venture with a major mining company and leading supplier of woody waste streams.

November 24, 2023

Amsterdam (NL) Delaware (U.S.), Friday, November 24 2023. Today, sustainable raw materials and climate technology company Perpetual Next establishes itself in the United States. The close cooperation the Dutch company has with a major global mining company, and a leading supplier of woody waste streams is the direct reason. The global mining company is one of the world's largest iron ore producers. The three companies are in the process of establishing a joint venture in the U.S. to develop a first production site in Florida for biocarbon for the purpose of making the iron ore industry more sustainable. To this end, Perpetual Next will provide, among other things, its proprietary technology and know-how for the construction of biocarbon production facilities. In its ambition to capture the American market, establishing in the United States is a logical next step. 

Perpetual Next specializes in producing and supplying renewable raw materials and associated proprietary technology to enable heavy industries, such as the steel and chemical industry, to make their production processes more sustainable. Among other things, Perpetual Next is a producer of biogas and the company owns the leading technology to produce biocarbon on an industrial scale to replace fossil carbon. In Europe, Perpetual Next already has production facilities that produce biocarbon from waste wood; now they will also be built in the U.S. The first location has already been identified for this purpose: Tampa, Florida. At that location, the Joint Venture partners will each assume their own role: supply of waste wood, provide biocarbon production technology, and off take of the biocarbon produced to make iron ore production more sustainable for the steel industry. The Joint Venture aims to commission biocarbon production facilities at three locations in the U.S. over the next five years. 

About Perpetual Next 
Perpetual Next is a renewable raw materials, energy, and climate technology company. With 135 employees and 6 proprietary production facilities in several European countries, it is working on solutions to make industries more sustainable and thereby combat further climate change. Perpetual Next is organized into three business units, each with their own specialties, dedicated teams and their own strategic partners and customers. The Biocarbon Business Unit produces renewable carbon from bio-residuals including waste wood based on its proprietary carbonization technology, which Perpetual Next owns and has further optimized. Based on thermochemical conversion, organic woody waste is upgraded to high-quality carbon with applications for the steel, cement, and chemical industries. 

Momentum Capital is the largest investor in Perpetual Next.