Origin Materials: Boldly Rethinking PET Bottle Caps
Mar 25, 2025 | In the Media
Anyone who appreciates a great designer’s improvement on a commonplace item can understand the brilliance of Origin’s PET bottle caps for single-use water and carbonated beverage bottles.
Origin’s Biomaterials Alchemy: Converting Wood Chips Into Real Plastic
Dec 5, 2024 | In the Media
Origin has found a way to produce plastics and other materials using biomaterials like wood chips. Origin has made substantial strides in the caps and closures business this year, completing manufacturing trials, forming partnerships with equipment manufacturers, and announcing their ability to produce tethered caps a month before the EU deadline.
My Climate Journey
Mar 17, 2023 | Podcast Episode
John Bissell and Rich Riley on the once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild the world's material stack from one built on petrochemical inputs to one built on biomass.
Carbon Negative Materials - Rich Riley, Co-CEO of Origin Materials
Jul 1, 2022 | Podcast Episode
Host Adriel Barrett-Johnson sits down with Wharton grad Rich Riley, co-CEO of Origin Materials, to discuss the importance of carbon negative materials in decarbonization, what it takes for a materials company to be carbon negative, how Origin Materials is scaling, and Rich's experience as co-CEO.
Start-Up Is Taking Carbon-Neutral Plastics to Asia
Jan 10, 2022 | In the Media
A California start-up that is getting carbon out of plastics has struck a deal with a Japanese chemical company, a sign that the traditional industry recognizes the growing importance of the environment to investors.
Origin Materials: Buried Treasure in the SPAC-Wreck?
Aug 20, 2021 | In the Media
Once market darlings, high-growth companies that went public via SPAC mergers have been abandoned in the wake of scandals involving a few bad actors. That creates an opportunity for shrewd investors to discover real treasures. One such gem is Origin Materials, Inc., a company that extracts chemicals from plants used to make an environmentally friendly version of plastic.
Future Proof - Road to Zero Podcast: Origin Materials and Carbon Zero Products from Wood Waste
Jul 10, 2021 | In the Media
Join the conversation with John Bissell and Rich Riley, co-CEOs of Origin Materials. Using novel chemistry to use wood product waste streams as feedstock, their process creates plastics and other valuable materials that would otherwise be made from fossil fuels. These materials are able to be generated in a carbon neutral and even carbon negative manner from waste.
Converting Woody Biomass to Intermediates Allows Carbon-Negative Products
Jun 1, 2021 | In the Media
With chemical transformation, Origin's flexible intermediates can be converted into final products, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging and carbon black, that are carbon-negative (net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere), according to an ISO-compliant third-party lifecycle analysis (LCA).
Origin Materials Makes Big Corporate Net-Zero Pledges Plausible
Apr 6, 2021 | In the Media
From a surge in net-zero announcements to Bill Gates’ new book to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s manifesto, a sea change is happening. Wall Street institutions, companies and governments are looking for ways to decarbonize and investors need to pick a horse to ride the trend.
Origin is Latest to Go Public Through Merger
Feb 24, 2021 | In the Media
Chemical & Engineering News interviews Origin's co-CEO John Bissell about creating a platform molecules that can address large portions of the chemicals and materials industry.
Construction Continues on Origin Plant in Sarnia, Ontario
Nov 6, 2020 | In the News
Construction of Origin's biomass to carbon negative chemicals plant continues in Sarnia, Ontario. Origin Materials is building the plant to demonstrate its technology for producing chemicals from biomass – such as sawdust – for use in making carbon negative plastic and other products.
Origin Materials Develops Furan Platform Based on Chloromethyl Furfural
Aug 17, 2020 | In the News
Origin Materials, the leading carbon negative materials company, has announced its commitment to the commercial manufacture of the chemical 5-chloromethyl furfural (CMF). The company has also announced the appointment of Dr. Robin Gibson as Director of Business Development.
Origin Speaks at Second Annual BioDesign Conference on Canada's Growing Bioeconomy
Sep 29, 2019 | In the News
More than 80 people gathered at the Lambton College Event Centre Thursday to work on the long-term project of building Canada's bio-economy. They came from across the country, representing industries, agencies and governments, to attend the second annual BioDesign conference hosted by the college and Sarnia-based Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC.)
PepsiCo joins NaturALL Bottle Alliance
Sep 11, 2019 | In the News
The alliance, a research consortium developed by Danone, Nestle Waters, and Origin Materials, is making progress on developing and introducing a 100% bio-based PET beverage bottle.
Plastic of the Future
Jun 19, 2018 | In the News
Bioplastics may offer one solution to the plastic predicament — and a West Sacramento company is leading the way.
Eastman FDCA process goes to Origin
Oct 2, 2017 | In the News
Origin Materials, the world's leading carbon-negative materials company, has licensed production technology for 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) and related derivatives from Eastman Chemical.