OCOchem
Converting carbon. Storing energy. OCOchem converts recycled CO₂, water, and clean electricity into hydrogen formate — a platform organic molecule — using its modular Carbon FluX Electrolyzer™.
Converting carbon. Storing energy. OCOchem converts recycled CO₂, water, and clean electricity into hydrogen formate — a platform organic molecule — using its modular Carbon FluX Electrolyzer™.
OCOchem’s founding mission is to use, not waste, CO₂ — converting it into a platform organic molecule at progressively lower cost than the fossil-fueled pathway for the same molecule. Formate is a precursor chemical carrying both carbon and hydrogen, used across crop preservation, de-icing, drilling fluids, water treatment, and as an emerging liquid carrier for hydrogen.
The process runs at ambient pressure and temperature on clean electricity, pairing carbon capture with electrolysis — a link the company describes as the missing piece of the circular carbon economy.
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A proprietary modular cell stack that electrochemically bonds hydrogen from water with CO₂ to produce formate in salt or acid form. The company reports scaling the technology six times over roughly four and a half years, and commissioning a pilot plant using multiple industrial-scale cells producing over 200 kg of formate per day.
Per company announcements: a first commercial product shipment (potassium formate); a production partnership with ADM to build a CO₂ conversion facility at an existing ADM site; a partnership with b.fab on biochemical production; a published direct-air-capture-and-conversion FEED study with AirCapture and the University of Alabama; and recognition as a 2025 CarbonX Top-50 global finalist.
The company estimates that making formate from recycled CO₂ — displacing both fossil feedstock and fossil process energy — reduces emissions by a factor of roughly seven per unit of formate produced, relative to the incumbent pathway.
OCOchem is led by co-founder and CEO Todd Brix from Richland, Washington. The company reports that its founding team holds over a century of combined start-up and Fortune 500 scale-up experience, with 270 issued patents across its leadership.
OCOchem fits AMP’s green-energy thesis: converting a waste stream into a revenue stream with modular, factory-produced units whose economics improve as clean electricity gets cheaper.
Company information on this page is based on statements by OCOchem and public sources and has not been independently verified by AMP.