Origin Materials: Buried Treasure in the SPAC-Wreck?

Aug 20, 2021 | In the Media

Once market darlings, high-growth companies that went public via SPAC mergers have been abandoned in the wake of scandals involving a few bad actors. That creates an opportunity for shrewd investors to discover real treasures. One such gem is Origin Materials, Inc., a company that extracts chemicals from plants used to make an environmentally friendly version of plastic.

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Future Proof - Road to Zero Podcast: Origin Materials and Carbon Zero Products from Wood Waste

Jul 10, 2021 | In the Media

Join the conversation with John Bissell and Rich Riley, co-CEOs of Origin Materials. Using novel chemistry to use wood product waste streams as feedstock, their process creates plastics and other valuable materials that would otherwise be made from fossil fuels. These materials are able to be generated in a carbon neutral and even carbon negative manner from waste.

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Construction Continues on Origin Plant in Sarnia, Ontario

Nov 6, 2020 | In the News

Construction of Origin's biomass to carbon negative chemicals plant continues in Sarnia, Ontario. Origin Materials is building the plant to demonstrate its technology for producing chemicals from biomass – such as sawdust – for use in making carbon negative plastic and other products.

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Plastic of the Future

Jun 19, 2018 | In the News

Bioplastics may offer one solution to the plastic predicament — and a West Sacramento company is leading the way.

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Eastman FDCA process goes to Origin

Oct 2, 2017 | In the News

Origin Materials, the world's leading carbon-negative materials company, has licensed production technology for 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) and related derivatives from Eastman Chemical.

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