NEWS
February 2024
Greenore's Series A financing round
Greenore is pleased to announce the successful completion of our Series A financing round, led by Amperex Technology Limited ATL. This new investment will enable Greenore further explore the recycle of battery raw and waste materials.
January 2024
TBM and Greenore sign business alliance agreement to promote CCU calcium carbonate
TBM is pleased to announce the business alliance with Greenore to promote CCU (Carbon Capture and Utilization) calcium carbonate developed by Greenore and development of “Next-generation LIMEX” made with CCU calcium carbonate.
July 2023
The World"s 1st Commercial Two-step Carbon Minerallization Planet by Greenore
Greenore's first commercial CCUS plant, also the world's 1st commercial two-step carbon mineralization plant, is now in operation. The very first batch of calcium carbonate has been successfully produced in July 2023!
Spring 2022
CONSTRUCTION OF 100,000 TON SLAG/Y PLANT IN PROGRESS
The JV between Greenore and Baotou Steel (Group) has been leading the construction of the world's first-of-a-kind commercial scale carbon mineralization plant based on slag. It is targeted to be commissioned in Q2 2023.
January 2022
GREENORE FEATURED IN BLOOMBERG GREEN
October 2021
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INNOVATORS UNDER 35
Xiaozhou Sean Zhou, co-founder and CEO of GREENORE, was awarded 2021 "MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35" for his invention and commercialization of a breakthrough CO₂-based green hydrometallurgical process towards industrial waste utilization and carbon reduction!
July 2021
THE GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONY
On July 31, the groundbreaking ceremony of the world’s first commercial plant of the carbon mineralization technology using steel slag took place in Baotou, Inner-Mongolia, China. Baorong Environmental Protection New Materials Co., Ltd., a JV between Greenore Cleantech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Baotou Steel Group, targets to commission the plant in summer 2021 with a capacity of valorizing 100,000 metric tons slag and 20,000 metric tons CO₂ per year.
APRIL 2020
GREENORE GLOBAL R&D CENTER IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
GREENORE Global R&D Center in Shanghai will be online Q3 2020.
JUNE 2019
JOINT PROJECT IN WYOMING
GreenOre CleanTech signed a MOU with JCOAL to launch the joint project “Carbon Capture and Utilization and Carbon Recycling Process Development"at the Wyoming Intergrated Test Center.
SPRING 2019
PILOT PLANT LAUNCH IN BAOTOU STEEL
A slag carbonation pilot plant owned by the JV between GreenOre and Baotou Steel (Group) has been commissioned 2019 spring, which is also the 1st industrial prototype of its kind in the world. A scale-up commercial plant will be launched Q4 2019.
SCALE-UP TRACK
PHASE 0
10 ton/y
PHASE 1
1,000 ~ 10,000 ton/y
PHASE 2
0.1 ~ 0.4 million ton/y
WINTER 2018
THREE-YEAR JOINT R&D PROJECT
Mission Innovation (MI) is a global initiative of 24 countries and the European Commission (on behalf of the European Union) working to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean energy widely affordable. MI was announced at COP21 on November 30, 2015, as world leaders came together in Paris to commit to ambitious efforts to combat climate change.
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea launched a new international joint R&D program in Nov. 2018, which supports R&D cooperation among South Korean universities, companies, and research institutes and their foreign partners. A 3-year R&D project,led by Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), GreenOre and Columbia University aims to develop novel technologies for industrial waste carbonation.
WINTER 2018
TURNING DROSS INTO GOLD
GreenOre team is featured in Columbia Magazine 2018 Winter Issue.
FALL 2017
TIME TO INVENT
GreenOre team is featured in Columbia Engineering Magazine 2017 Fall Issue.
SPRING 2017
"THE ECOPARTNERSHIP JOINT-VENTURE LAUNCH MEETING"
“The U.S.-China EcoPartnership Opening Ceremony and Press Conference” was successfully held at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing by China Baotou Steel (Group) and Columbia University on Thursday, May 25th, 2017.
SPRING 2015
THE U.S.-CHINA ECOPARTNERSHIP
In May 2015, Columbia University and Baotou Steel (Group) China were jointly selected as one of the six 2015 U.S.-China EcoPartnerships (6th Round).