Consolidated Carbon
Agriculture
Industrial hemp at working scale
A grower network across the United States has produced more than 10,000 acres of industrial hemp as feedstock for fiber, hurd, and grain. The crop is planted, harvested, and contracted as a commodity.
Materials development · Industrial hemp
Specified materials for existing markets.
Consolidated Carbon develops end-market materials from agricultural commodities, with a focus on industrial hemp. University programs, national laboratories, corporate partners, and internal process knowledge are used to take feedstock through a scientific development path and into specifications that major markets already buy against.
Mission
A cleaner, smarter, more resilient materials economy.
To contribute to a cleaner, smarter, and more resilient future through discovery and innovation using bio-based materials — and to turn agricultural commodities into products industry can specify and purchase.
Work
Agriculture, processing, and the products that follow.
The categories are simple. Grow the crop at commercial acreage. Separate it into usable fractions. Move those fractions into materials with partners who can take a lab result to a purchase order.
Processing
A built decortication facility
A full decortication plant is in operation, with fractionation and pretreatment designed for high throughput. Harvested material is separated into grain, fiber, and hurd at specifications buyers can run.
Commercialization
End uses, not intermediates alone
The commercial question is what the fractions become: insulation, packaging, textiles, hempcrete, absorbents, feed, and other bio-based replacements taken from research lots to commercial volumes.
Partnerships
Programs used to take materials to a commercial level.
National-laboratory work and a USDA commodities program exist so hemp fractions can be specified into products with a path to scale.
National laboratory
Shell GameChanger Accelerator powered by NREL
Selected into GCxN Cohort 7. Work with NREL researchers to optimize pretreatment of hemp feedstocks and to examine techno-economic and life-cycle effects before a material is sold as an industrial input.
Federal market program
USDA Climate-Smart Commodities, now AMP
Lead partner on a USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities award — the program now continuing as AMP. The grant supported climate-smart hemp production and the market infrastructure around it.
XPrize
XPrize Carbon Removal
XPrize Carbon Removal semi-finalist. The team was recognized at the New York Stock Exchange for work treating agricultural biomass as a climate and materials platform.
Accomplishments
What is already in place.
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XPrize
XPrize Carbon Removal semi-finalist. Recognition for treating agricultural biomass as a climate and materials platform.
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USDA grant
Awarded under Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, now AMP — one of the largest hemp commercialization awards in the program.
03
Shell GameChanger
Current participant in the Shell GameChanger Accelerator powered by NREL, advancing hemp feedstock pretreatment.
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Decortication facility
A complete decortication and fractionation plant is built and operating — midstream infrastructure most of the U.S. hemp market still lacks.
05
CarbonTrack
Proprietary MMRV platform for soil carbon: measure, report, verify, custody, and transact credits tied to climate-smart commodity production.
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Patents and IP
Industry patents on processing and product pathways, with a backlog of bio-based alternatives moving toward offtake.
End uses
Where the commodity is meant to land.
Fractions are developed toward products markets already understand how to buy.
Materials
Cellulose
Phytochemicals
Lignin
Proteins
Grain and protein fractions
Carbon
Soil carbon