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SixRing Named in top 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy
October 25, 2024
Advanced Biofuels Summit, ABLC
The annual rankings, which recognize innovation and achievement in fuels and integrated biorefinery development, are based on votes by the delegates of ABLC< the world’s most widely-attended advanced bioeconomy series. “This year, the voters went global in picking companies from all around the…
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Canadian Biogas Association
2024
Feature Article
SixRing is an innovative technology company that has developed novel patented solutions for delignifying biomass. The system operates at ambient conditions and is a low-energy, low-cost process that converts lignocellulosic (non-food) biomass into several different bioproducts. Based in Calgary, SixRing’s technology is a homegrown Canadian…
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Converting Biomass to Biofuels and Sustainable Chemicals
2024
Natural Products Canada
We all know that the combustion of fossil fuels is contributing to climate change, and it’s something governments, industry and citizens are actively seeking to solve. SixRing has leveraged their experience in the oil and gas industry to convert biomass from non-food sources such as forestry or agriculture waste into…
Emissions Reduction Alberta Awards $5 Million to SixRing for Lethbridge Facility
July 12, 2024, Calgary, AB
While SixRing technology can produce a range of sustainable products, including advanced biofuels, sustainable chemicals and biomaterials, the Lethbridge facility will focus on products to serve existing high demand markets such as sustainable intermediate and fine chemicals, bio-corrosion inhibitor, bio-based commodity chemicals, and bio-inputs to anerobic digesters for RNG productivity enhancement. The demonstration facility will be operational in 2025 and serve as a showcase to license this breakthrough technology elsewhere in Alberta, across Canada and internationally.
Infinite Opportunities, Calgary biofuels player’s patented tech is both feedstock and product agnostic
Spring 2024, Canadian Biomass Magazine, By Maria Church
If asked for the elevator pitch, Scott Treadwell, president of Calgary-based SixRing, will say they are offering infinite optionality on the inputs and outputs of their biomass technology, a rare feat in the industry. SixRing has been operating under the radar for many years now while quietly developing more than 40 patent families (filing some in over 130 countries), scaling the technology and optimizing the downstream refining and associated end products to ensure commercial viability prior to entering the market. The core of the technology is a chemical delignification process that’s low-cost, scalable, and offers high conversion rates of non-food biomass to a multitude of end products. The company’s pilot plant has a 20,000-litre reactor that can process around three to five tonnes a day of biomass, along with many other technical support systems used in their process.
Edmonton International Airport (YEG) and SixRing Partner to Accelerate Sustainable Aviation
The MOU will focus on improved facilities and access to sustainable aviation fuel for the Edmonton Metro Region
July 20, 2023, Edmonton, AB
Edmonton International Airport (YEG) and SixRing have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to commit to working together to advance the use of biofuels, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), in the aviation industry. The partnership between SixRing and Edmonton International Airport will support the development of a commercial-scale production facility in the Edmonton Metro Region.
SixRing Nears Commercial Takeoff For Breakthrough Biofuel Technology
January 11, 2023 - Daily Oil Bulletin
Calgary-based startup SixRing Inc. is nearing commercial takeoff for a suite of patented chemical formulas, methods and low-energy processes to produce a biomass effluent that can be upgraded into a full range of biofuels — and sustainable petrochemicals and life sciences products — from low-cost readily available agricultural and forestry waste.
To learn more about SixRing and its breakthrough biomass “delignfication” chemicals and processes for producing biofuels, as well as potential feedstock, best biofuel markets to target, geographical scope for its technology, and the company’s commercial state of play, the Bulletin undertook an extended interview with Clay Purdy, founder and CEO of the company.
Government of Canada invests over $1.4 million in SixRing clean technology
September 6, 2022
The team at SixRing™ is honored to receive an investment of more than $1.4 million to support our next phase of development to scale up production. Francis Drouin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, announced on behalf of the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, an investment of more than $1.4 million to support SixRing Inc.'s next phase of development to scale up production. These funds will be used for scaling the company's low-energy biomass conversion process that converts agricultural waste into renewable fuels and sustainable advanced materials.
SixRing Inc. Invited to Join the Clean Tech Showcase at Pacific NorthWest Economic Region’s 31st Annual Summit
July 21, 2022
SixRing is honoured to be invited by PNWER to participate in the conference agenda and to take part PNWER’s environmental very select technology showcase. Founder and CEO, Clay Purdy, welcomes the opportunity to participate in the PNWER agenda’s Sustainable Aviation panel discussion, where he will highlight the contribution SixRing’s technology will make to the development of sustainable aviation fuel for the North American market. The SixRing process creates minimal emissions, does not compete with food production, and is readily scalable.
Sustainable Fuels to be Tested at EIA
April 27, 2022
Edmonton International Airport and SixRing, a subsidiary of Calgary-based Fluid Energy Group Ltd., have signed an agreement to utilize the SixRing process to produce one of the world’s cleanest drop-in aviation fuels, to explore possible collaboration to secure clean-hydrogen supplies as a key input, and to work together to scale SixRing technology to other airports and transportation hubs in Canada and globally. EIA will support SixRing by making introductions to airlines and industry partners.
SixRing awarded an Alberta Innovates Grant
March 15, 2022
Alberta Innovates Building with Biofiber Program has awarded SixRing™ a grant of $240,000 for the project “Enviro-Cel™ Compositions from underutilized agriculture and forestry biomass for Sustainable Construction Materials”. This project will contribute to accelerate the conversion of Alberta’s waste biomass into value-added products.