Newlight – The Engineering Group

https://www.newlight.com/

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Company | Our Mission

What if we could capture carbon emissions that would otherwise become a part of the air, and use them to make materials that would otherwise be made from oil?

At Newlight, we believe that the most sustainable way to reduce the amount of carbon in the air is to use greenhouse gas emissions as a resource for the production of commercially useful materials that out-compete oil-based materials.

Founded in 2003, after over a decade of research, Newlight has developed a carbon capture technology able to produce high-performance bioplastics from carbon emissions. Our mission is to replace oil-based plastics with greenhouse gas-based bioplastics on a global scale, moving oil out of the world’s products, reducing material production costs, and reducing the amount of carbon in the air on a market-driven basis.

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Our Team

Newlight is led by a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and innovators dedicated to the commodity-scale commercialization of Newlight’s patented greenhouse gas-to-plastic technology.

• Mark Herrema, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer,inventor and co-inventor of Newlight’s patented GHG-to-plastic conversion technologies, magna cum laude, Princeton University.

• Kenton Kimmel, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer,co-inventor of Newlight’s patented GHG-to-plastic conversion technologies, Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University.

• Evan Creelman, Chief Operations Officer, key process engineer on Newlight’s GHG-to-plastic production technology, Applied Mathematics and Economics, cum laude, Northwestern University.

• Steven Petersen, J.D., General Counsel and Chief Intellecutal Property Officer, former General Counsel for a publicly held biopharmaceutical company and while in private practice served as primary patent counsel to several public and private companies.