Aeroborn is pleased to announce that CEO Man Yong Toh will join the speaker line-up at CCUS Xchange 2026, the global virtual meeting place for senior executives, policymakers, and technical leaders working to turn carbon management into a commercial reality.

The conference convenes the leadership shaping the build-out of CCUS infrastructure — from project finance and policy alignment to the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors and the emerging carbon utilisation economy. Toh's session will focus on scaling CCUS technologies from demonstration to industrial deployment, drawing on Aeroborn's experience moving its molten salt electrochemistry platform from laboratory to pilot.

From capture to commercial materials

Most of the public conversation around CCUS still centres on capture and storage. Aeroborn's view is that long-term commercial viability depends on the third letter — utilisation. Captured CO₂ has to find a durable economic home, ideally in materials that displace higher-emission incumbents and command real industrial demand.

That is where Aeroborn's CCU platform fits. Using molten salt electrochemistry, the company converts captured CO₂ into circular carbon materials — including activated carbon for filtration and energy-storage applications, with development pathways into hard carbon and carbon black. The process operates at substantially lower temperatures than conventional thermal routes, and the resulting materials are designed as drop-in replacements for fossil-derived equivalents in established supply chains.

For hard-to-abate sectors — steel, cement, chemicals, tyres — this matters. CO₂ utilisation that produces a saleable, specification-grade material changes the economics of capture itself: emitters pay for offtake, and the captured carbon enters the circular economy rather than sitting in geological storage waiting for a market.

What the talk will cover

The talk will draw on practical lessons from Aeroborn's scale-up programme, including:

• The bankability gap between TRL 5 and TRL 7. Why the path from validated pilot to first-of-a-kind plant remains the hardest commercial step in deep-tech CCUS — and what kinds of public–private partnership structures actually unlock it.

• Designing CCU around offtake. Why technology choice should follow the material specification the customer needs, not the other way round, and how this changes the conversation with cement, steel, and chemicals partners.

• Building consortia for industrial CCU. Lessons from working alongside emitters, engineering partners, and offtakers to structure projects that are financeable rather than purely technically interesting.

Why this conversation matters now

The hard-to-abate industrial base — responsible for a substantial share of global emissions — cannot decarbonise through electrification alone. CCUS is one of the few credible pathways, but the gap between announced projects and operating tonnage remains wide. Closing that gap requires a clearer commercial logic for utilisation, not just better policy for storage.

Aeroborn is contributing to that conversation as a Rotterdam-based deep-tech company building what it believes is the kind of capital-efficient, modular CCU platform Europe needs to compete in the next decade of industrial decarbonisation.

Join the session

CCUS Xchange 2026 is a virtual conference. Full agenda, registration, and speaker details are available at ccusxchange.com.