Paebbl: Carbon Storage via Mineralization into Industrial Material

OpenAir is excited to present This Is CDR, an online event series that explores the wide range of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions currently being researched, developed, and deployed, and discusses them in the context of CDR policies OpenAir seeks to formulate and advance at every level of government in the U.S., as well as in national and subnational jurisdictions globally.

This week we are pleased to welcome Paebbl Co-Founders Andreas Saari and Pol Knops who will tell us about their new company's innovative method that employs mineralization to combine CO2 with abundant minerals to create carbon-negative industrial raw materials.

About Andreas:

Andreas Saari is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Paebbl, a CO2 repurposing company. Paebbl converts CO2 into long-lasting essential industrial raw materials, permanently sequestering the CO2. Formerly, Andreas co-founded The 280 Company which developed conversion processes for CO2 and methane into carbon nanomaterials. Before that, he was CEO of Slush (www.slush.org) and Co-Founder & CEO of Wave Ventures (www.wave.ventures). Andreas studied industrial engineering and management at Aalto University in Finland.

About Pol:

Pol Knops is Co-Founder and CTO of Paebbl, a CO2 repurposing company. Paebbl converts CO2 into long-lasting essential industrial raw materials, permanently sequestering the CO2. He has been working on mineralization for about 15 years, first as an academic interest. And slowly realized that besides the CO2 sequestration there is value to be generated from the beneficial use of the end-products. And in order to create an influential impact this needs to be scaled up to industrial scale, which requires founding a company, a bigger team, more funding, business cases etc. etc. besides the chemistry of CO2 sequestration. Pol has a MSc degree in physics from the University of Twente.