Svante

Svante has officially opened its Redwood Facility in Burnaby, B.C., the world’s first gigafactory dedicated to commercial-scale carbon capture filter production. The 141,000-square-foot site can produce enough filters to capture 10 million tonnes of CO₂ annually—equivalent to emissions from 27 million cars.

Funded by US$145 million, the plant is backed by Chevron, Temasek, GE Vernova, and others. The MOF-coated filters target sectors like pulp and paper, ethanol, and waste-to-energy. CEO Claude Letourneau called Redwood a historic step toward building infrastructure for a global carbon marketplace.

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Burnaby-based Svante Technologies is advancing its carbon capture partnership with Mercer International at the Peace River pulp mill in Alberta. The project, now in the Front-End Engineering and Design Phase 2 (FEL-2), focuses on assessing commercial viability through detailed engineering and cost analysis.

Targeting biogenic CO₂ emissions, the initiative uses low-carbon electricity and recovered waste heat to enhance net reductions. Svante’s structured sorbent filters are designed for scalable, cost-effective industrial deployment. The collaboration highlights Mercer’s climate innovation goals and Svante’s role in enabling sustainable solutions across Western Canada’s pulp and paper sector.

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