The Klean Group of Companies

Klean Graphene is part of the Klean Industries group, which recovers energy and resources from waste streams across multiple sectors.

Klean Graphene does not operate in isolation. It is one expression of a single engineering discipline that runs through the whole Klean group: take a waste stream, apply controlled thermal conversion, and recover something with more value than the material that went in. Nanocarbons are the most technically demanding end of that spectrum, but they draw on exactly the same reactor, gas-handling and materials know-how as the rest of the portfolio.

One shared process backbone

Carbonisation, thermal conversion, gas cleaning, heat integration and solids handling recur across every Klean sector. Lessons earned in one application travel directly into the next, which is why the nanocarbon platform could be scaled rather than reinvented. The carbonisation step behind Klean’s graphene-like structures, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes was developed in collaboration with Mitsubishi Corporation from the late 1980s through the 1990s, and that work now sits inside the group’s wider technology base.

Proven at scale

The joint pilot in Japan began at 0.4 tonnes per annum in 2000 and was scaled to process approximately 2,500,000 used tires — around 20,000 tonnes of rubber annually — with full-scale output of roughly 7,000 tonnes per annum of nano-recovered carbon black and 700 tonnes per annum of carbon nanotubes. Moving a nanomaterial from pilot to plant is where most ventures stop. Group-level engineering capability is the reason this one did not.

Material supply and project delivery

Because the group designs and engineers facilities as well as producing material, customers can enter at whichever point suits them: buy qualified nanocarbon grades, commission a feasibility study on a waste-to-nanocarbon project, or contract a turn-key facility. The companies listed below cover the group’s wider activity.

Where a group company is best placed to answer your question, we will say so directly. Scope, references and commercial terms are discussed once the requirement is clear.

Industrial and Technology Companies

Klean Industries is an environmentally conscious industrial energy company focused on renewable energy, resource-recovery and recycling solutions, specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of advanced thermal treatment facilities using carbonization, liquefaction, pyrolysis and gasification technologies.
Klean Power is focused on the upcoming Waste to Energy project in Vancouver, partnering with Plenary Group and Corix to deliver a state-of-the-art integrated waste processing facility based on a commercially proven technology platform.
Klean Fuel uses a plastics-to-oil technology known as pyrolysis to convert a wide variety of waste plastics into ASTM spec grade liquid fuels.
Klean Carbon produces CBk-EX®, CBk-RX® and CBk-SX® carbon black reinforcing fillers that can fully or partially replace N300, N600 and N700 series conventional carbon blacks.
Klean Coal develops alternative fuel projects based on low grade coals using technologies that are environmentally sound, commercially proven and in use on a large scale around the globe.
Klean Energy is a project based on a new and improved technology platform for heavy oil production, upgrading and in-situ developments in Alberta's oil sands.
Klean Hydrogen converts end-of-life tires, plastics and municipal waste into green hydrogen, co-produced at every facility with on-site refuelling and fuel-cell truck logistics.
Klean Biochar produces carbon-negative biochar from biomass pyrolysis for agricultural soils and carbon-removal markets.
Klean Graphene produces advanced nanocarbon materials — graphene, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes — recovered from waste tires for battery, composite and electronics applications.
Klean Gasification converts municipal and industrial waste into clean syngas and renewable energy through advanced gasification.
Klean Graphite supplies high-purity graphite and conductive carbon for battery anode, lubricant and industrial applications.
Klean Loop provides the tire-recycling traceability layer, recording every tire through the TyreNova process so recovered carbon black, oil and steel can be verified end to end.

Capital, Services and Resources

Klean Capital is an active investor in the property, waste management, energy storage, renewables, cleantech and green technology sector, offering project financing, private equity, trade finance, PPP funding and venture capital.
Klean Consulting is the management consulting arm of Klean Industries, a leading resource recovery and sustainability consultancy guiding research, strategy, policy development and action plans.
Klean Commodities manufactures, distributes, imports and exports sustainable high grade commodities and chemical raw materials.
Klean Water provides commercially proven water treatment technologies for the oil and gas, mining and municipal sectors.
Klean Oils is the exclusive importer and exporter of the patented ECO-Klean (Lube) Oil Dialysis Technology, which eliminates the need for oil changes.
Klean Recycling recycles used electronics, recovering gold, silver, platinum and palladium along with plastics and additional metals for reuse.
Klean Travel offers personalised travel services that are carbon neutral, offset with certified carbon offsets at no extra cost to travellers.

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One group, from waste feedstock to finished nanomaterial

Klean Graphene sits inside an engineering group that recovers energy and resources from waste and delivers the facilities that do it.

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