Promethean Particles (“Promethean”) is a UK-based global pioneer, leading the industrial-scale manufacture of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) – an exciting class of advanced materials that have extraordinarily high surface areas and can act as “sieves” or “sponges” on a molecular level. Promethean is primarily focused on developing and manufacturing MOFs for use in the fight against climate change, particularly for carbon capture and storage (CCS), biogas upgrading, water harvesting, and gas storage applications.
In the case of CCS, MOF-based carbon capture has the potential to deliver significant advantages over existing technologies; increased energy-efficiency, lower capital and operating costs, lower process complexity, smaller operating footprint, and an improved environmental, health and safety (EHS) profile. Similar benefits are expected for MOF-based processes over incumbent technologies in the other application areas targeted by Promethean.
However, the capabilities of MOFs has never been realised due to low manufacturing volumes and high costs. Promethean is unleashing the power of MOFs through the use of its patented manufacturing processes, which dramatically improve throughput and cost whilst increasing process reliability and consistency. Promethean operates a MOF manufacturing facility at its site in Nottingham, UK, that is the world’s largest manufacturing plant of its kind. The company also has an ever-increasing portfolio of new intellectual property on its manufacturing processes and products.
Since closing its Series A investment round in July 2024, Promethean has grown its team significantly to accelerate the commercialisation of MOF-based technologies. This has included expansion of its capabilities in both the large-scale manufacture, and application development, of MOFs. Promethean is collaborating with several organisations to evaluate MOFs in real-world environments and measure performance. Results to-date have been exciting, demonstrating that MOFs offer multiple benefits over alternative separation and capture technologies. For CCS, larger-scale MOF-based demonstration units are now planned on the path to full-scale implementation.
