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  • TiEnergy Saves 1.6 Million Pounds of Carbon in 2023

    TiEnergy Saves 1.6 Million Pounds of Carbon in 2023

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    The company provides sustainable solutions to the railroad industry that save 3.06 pounds of carbon per retired railroad tie


    HAMPSHIRE, Ill., December 20, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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    TiEnergy LLC, a family-owned railroad tie recycling and repurposing company with a track record of innovation in the industry, announced a carbon footprint reduction of 1.6 million pounds in 2023, as a direct result of its environmentally friendly railroad tie disposal methods. More than 22 million railroad ties are taken out of service in the U.S. every year, and millions more are already deteriorating in rail yards or disposal sites. By responsibly removing and sustainably recycling the old ties, TiEnergy reduces greenhouse gas emissions while placing railroads in the center of the circular economy.

    “TiEnergy was founded twenty years ago to solve the challenge of railroad tie disposal. Today our operations help reduce the carbon footprint of railroad organizations and push the industry to a more sustainable future,” says Steve Berglund, CEO and Founder of TiEnergy. “On the heels of the announcement to invest in the future of Union Station (right here in Chicago) and also across the country with high-speed rail, we’re proud to end the year with such a significant and measurable contribution to a cleaner and greener future for United States’ railroads.”

    TiEnergy is equipped to recycle up to 5,000 ties per day. The company removes ties from storage sites, extracts metal hardware from the ties through its patented Tie Plate Picker technology, and then grinds the ties into TIEROC, an engineered construction aggregate substitute made from ground-up ties and post-consumer wood waste. Railroad ties gain an additional use when landfills use TIEROC to create a permeable and consistent road base that streamlines operations and allows more productive turnaround times. It also allows landfills to forego more carbon-intensive materials like rock and stone, further reducing the carbon impact of waste disposal operations. 

    The company works with Class I, Class II, and Short Line railroads, commercial and industrial companies, and landfills across the United States and Canada. Beyond rail tie recycling, TiEnergy has expanded its capabilities to include old utility poles, crane mats, and pallets. 

    About TiEnergy

    TiEnergy, LLC is an Illinois-based, family-owned company with a primary business of sustainable railroad tie removal, recycling and repurposing. Through innovative solutions such as TIEROC, an aggregate substitute made from recycled wood ties and out-of-service wood products, and patented technology that removes railroad tie plates, TiEnergy has created a new, environmentally responsible market for post-consumer waste. The company is a subsidiary of Midwest Companies, a sustainable waste management company that collects and recycles material waste for the construction, demolition, and railroad industries. For more information, visit https://www.tienergy-usa.com

    Source: TiEnergy, LLC

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  • Plantd Secures $10M in Series A Funding to Commercialize Carbon Negative Building Materials

    Plantd Secures $10M in Series A Funding to Commercialize Carbon Negative Building Materials

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    Plantd’s proprietary low carbon-emissions production technology transforms fast-growing perennial grass into durable home construction products.

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    Jan 26, 2023


    DURHAM, N.C., January 26, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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    Revolutionary sustainable building materials company Plantd is making waves in the construction industry with the announcement of its $10 million Series A funding round. Led by American Family Ventures, the funding solidifies Plantd’s position as a pioneer in carbon-negative building materials.

    “We are thrilled to back this exceptional and visionary team,” said Kyle Beatty, Managing Director at American Family Ventures. “Plantd is creating fundamentally better construction materials that are cost-effective and truly carbon negative. We have been impressed by how they have reinvented every step of the production process from first principles, all the way from input material to logistics.”

    Plantd’s production team is led by co-founders and engineers Huade Tan and Nathan Silvernail, who worked together for years at SpaceX designing and building key systems and components of the Dragon cargo and crew spacecraft. Together with co-founder and CEO Josh Dorfman, a serial entrepreneur and longtime sustainability leader, Plantd is redefining the value chain for engineered building materials.

    Plantd’s proprietary low carbon-emissions production technology transforms fast-growing perennial grass into durable, carbon-negative building materials that outperform competitive products on key attributes, including strength and moisture resistance. 

    Starting with structural panel products for walls and roofs, Plantd will fabricate building materials that are a direct substitute for traditional home construction products and require no alternative installation techniques. By cultivating fast-growing perennial grass instead of cutting down trees and pioneering novel production technology to minimize carbon emissions, Plantd Structural Panels™ retain 80% of the atmospheric carbon dioxide captured in the field, which is then locked away inside the walls and roofs of new homes. 

    “We can’t move quickly enough to solve climate change unless we develop profitable methods to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,” said Dorfman. “We’re going to change an industry by offering builders a better product at the same price and, in the process, scale a business that can help save the planet.”

    Building with Plantd materials enables home builders to offer their customers homes that are affordable, durable, and sustainable. And by sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide within structural frames, homes built with Plantd materials will play a key role in solving climate change.

    Plantd will use this round of funding to establish their agriculture supply chain and build the first-of-its-kind, modular automated continuous press for engineered building materials. The company is currently working with the nation’s largest builders and architects to integrate these materials into their projects and quickly make them a standard in the industry.

    Plantd’s ultimate vision is to build the factory of the future, ensuring that new homes and buildings contribute to reversing the effects of climate change.

    Learn more about Plantd by visiting https://www.plantdmaterials.com/ and discover how they are shaping the future of the construction industry and the planet.

    Source: Plantd

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