Introducing Yerrawa

Welcome to Yerrawa. We are a team of like-minded and determined individuals, all sharing a vision for creating a sustainable future. We believe that our sophisticated technology can help solve the ongoing CO2 problem. Would you like to find out more? Explore our website today.

Circular Technology | For a Sustainable Future

Technology

Learn more about our vision and the various ways our technology could be implemented to create a circular economy. 

News

Stay informed and learn more about our latest developments and collaborations.

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Yerrawa is continually building upon its technology, so stay in touch to learn about upgrades and other changes.

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If you want more information or if you want to contact one of our engineers, feel free to contact us.

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Our Patents

Here  you can find our filed patents as well as the patents of our sister company’s 

Our Story

Paul O’Connor – Founder

My own professional background – like most of our team – has been in the fossil fuel industry. I started my career at Shell, where I mainly worked in the area of cracking heavy oils into useful products. Thereafter I started working at Akzo Nobel Catalysts, where the focus was to develop catalyst technology to improve key refinery processes: Catalytic Cracking and Hydro processing. Already in those days (1980s), there was an environmental awareness leading to a need for developing cleaner fuels.

At the end of 2005 I left that field to form my first start-up: BIOeCON. Our goal was to convert waste biomass into fuels or chemicals by making use of smart catalytic technologies. Since then, with my team I have been active in several related ventures including KiOR, ANTECY and CELLiCON.

In 2018 CELLiCON acquired BIOeCON’s technology to separate cellulose from biomass and/or textile wastes and to upcycle this into high quality nano-cellulose structured materials. In 2019 Climeworks  obtained ANTECY’s technology for CO2 capturing and conversion.

Recently I have become enthusiastically involved in the quest to convert other waste materials such as non-cellulosic biowaste, plastics and fossil organic materials into valuable green products without the emission of greenhouse gasses like CO2, CH4, NOx etc. and/or toxic materials. Based on this focus, and with the help of our group of specialists, the Yerrawa vision emerged. 

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