AGC, Inc. (Tokyo) has agreed to a joint research contract with Canada-based climate tech startup company, CERT Systems Inc. (hereafter CERT) to conduct research on the production of ethylene using CO2 as a raw material through electrolysis technology. In this joint research, the AGC Group will begin examining the introduction of CCU technology in order to replace ethylene, which is used as a raw material for products such as polyvinyl chloride and fluoropolymer resin, with ethylene derived from CO2.
In this joint research, CERT and the AGC Group will leverage the knowledge gained from CERT’s successful pilot demonstration experiment in 2020, which was the world’s first to produce ethylene from industrial emissions using CO2 electrolysis technology, and will conduct research towards the practical application of CO2 electrolysis plants. The AGC Group plans to work with its manufacturing bases to verify the process and assess the feasibility of this technology.