Anchor Deployment

Carbotura as Anchor Tenant
in community industrial parks.

A Carbotura-anchored industrial campus is carbon-negative by design and achieves Total Material Conversion (TMC) — near-zero residual across the cluster. The anchor facility supplies neighbors with bulk materials, fuel-cell water, and industrial gases; co-location captures freshness, spec premiums, and utility-sharing economics no remote off-taker can match.

A Carbotura Advanced Circular Manufacturing (ACM) facility anchors an industrial campus through three exportable resources — materials, water, and industrial gases — and through the freshness and specification advantages of co-locating off-takers next to a continuous, traceable supply. It does not anchor the campus through energy.

No energy export. The facility runs on its own power (Island Mode). An 8 MW PEM fuel-cell stack, fed by about 3.8 TPD of hydrogen made inside the plant, supplies everything the facility uses: the microwave generators, the Recyclotron™ reactors, the separation trains, graphitization and the rest of the plant. There is no surplus power, no behind-the-meter offering and no merchant hydrogen. The optional inter-module bus-tie shares load between modules; it does not export to the grid. A campus plan that depends on buying power or hydrogen from the facility will not work. The facility also sells no fuels: no methane and no sustainable aviation fuel.

What the facility can actually offer neighbors

ResourceExportable?Basis
Fuel-cell water (WTR-FC cascade) Yes ~25 t/d net recoverable industrial-DI at 100 TPD (→500 t/d at 2,000 TPD). Combustion-free PEM byproduct. The one genuine utility export — makes the campus net-water-positive.
Industrial gases (PSA tail) Yes N2, O2, Ar, CO2 separated by the cascaded PSA train beyond internal needs. CO2 also feeds on-site mineralization (MIN-004 PCC).
Bulk materials (6 families) Yes 116 products: carbon cascade, metals/minerals, glass, aromatics. Co-location captures freshness + spec premiums.
Low-grade waste heat (steam) Limited Waste-heat steam generator tail. Thermal only — usable for drying / district heat / greenhouse, not power generation.
Electric power No Fully consumed internally. Not available under any configuration.
Hydrogen / fuels No Hydrogen is an internal energy carrier only. The facility sells no fuels.

Co-location ring — who to surround the facility with

Tenants are organized in three rings by what they pull from the facility. The recruitment logic is offtake adjacency and shared utilities (water, gas, heat), never power.

Ring 1 — Material off-takers (co-locate to capture freshness & spec premium)

Tenant typePulls fromWhy co-locate
Battery anode / cell precursor plant CRB cascade (CRB-008 HPG, CRB-018 spheroidized, CRB-019 hard carbon) Spheroidized graphite degrades with handling/shipping; adjacency is a real spec advantage, not just freight. IRA 45X / 30D eligibility strengthens the pairing.
Elastomers / conductive-additives compounder CRB-002 carbon black, specialty nanocarbons Continuous on-spec carbon feed; absorbs off-spec/fines streams.
Precision casting / alloy house MTL recovered metals, e-waste precious metals (Ag/Au/Pt/Pd) Short-loop refining; traceable circular-origin metal.
Construction products / filler plant (paper, paint, polymer) MIN-004 PCC, MIN-002 SCM, aggregates PCC is bulky and low-value-per-tonne — freight kills it; adjacency is essential.
Chemicals / resins partner ARM family (benzene, toluene, xylenes, phenol, styrene) BTX and downstream aromatics as drop-in petrochemical feed without a refinery.
Container / specialty / fiberglass former GLS family Cullet and specialty glass feed close to the melt.

Ring 2 — Utility-sharing tenants (water, gas, heat)

Water off-takers

Greenhouse / controlled-environment agriculture, beverage or bottling line, or a polishing loop for any chemical tenant — drawing on the 25→500 t/d FC water cascade.

Markets the campus as net-water-positive in a water-stressed jurisdiction.

Gas off-takers

Merchant industrial-gas operator or any tenant needing N2 blanketing, O2, Ar, or food/beverage-grade CO2 — supplied from the PSA tail.

Facility becomes a merchant-gas node by default.

Thermal host

Greenhouse, drying operation, or district-heat loop taking the waste-heat steam tail.

Low-grade heat only; no power generation possible from this stream.

Ring 3 — Enabling / campus-service tenants

Siting sequence

Production figures are steady-state design targets pending commissioning. Near-zero residual, near-zero emissions, no discharge.

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