Meet this years finalists

The Decarb Next Gen Awards 2025 is designed to recognise start-ups have conceived and developed a breakthrough technology with the potential to accelerate industrial decarbonization for the hard-to-abate sectors.

Carbicrete

CarbiCrete’s innovative technology revolutionizes the concrete industry by eliminating the need for cement, using steel slag as a sustainable binder, and permanently sequestering CO2 within concrete products. This dual strategy of sequestration and emission avoidance underscores CarbiCrete’s significant impact on fighting climate change and supporting the circular economy and the transition to net-zero emissions by 2050, with the scalability of its CO2 conversion process making it suitable for large-scale deployment both in Canada and globally. 

Find out more here: https://carbicrete.com/

Norton Engineering

Norton Engineering provides innovative and practical solutions to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, power and chemical industries. Our team consists of engineers with broad industrial backgrounds, giving us the ability to solve problems from various perspectives. Norton Engineering has offices in Louisiana and New Jersey with subject matter experts in industrial process technology development, combustion systems (Fired Heaters/Boilers/Incinerators), and emissions control including our proprietary wet gas scrubbing process technology for control of air pollutants from industrial and combustion sources. Norton Engineering’s expertise in wet gas scrubbing led to interest in providing a cost-effective, add-on solution for CCUS.

Find out more here: https://nortonengr.com/

Calix

Calix’s unique platform technology is a new type of kiln, or furnace, that delivers indirect heating of minerals to revolutionise industrial heating in heavy industries such as cement, steel, alumina and critical minerals industries, as well as the direct air capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the production of sustainable environmental products. Calix’s technology enables efficient, precise, and flexible energy use in mineral processing, including from intermittent renewable sources, to reduce emissions and enhance operations. It’s hybrid fuel technology, with fast switching between electricity and combustion options, is designed to reduce costs and allow energy intensive facilities to be integrated into the grid, thereby supporting grid stabilisation through the provision of industrial demand side response services. 

Find out more here: https://calix.global/

pH7 Technologies

pH7 Technologies enables the transition to clean and renewable energy (i.e. hydrogen) by increasing the supply of critical metals such as Copper, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Radium… through an environmentally and economically sustainable process empowering the circular economy. This innovative closed-loop process applying organic, inorganic, and electrochemistry, increases the supply of critical metals through the extraction of metals from the materials destined to landfills such as mine tailings, low-grade ores, unsmeltaqble and end-of-life materials problematic for current methodologies. This disruptive process significantly reduces the wastewater, prevents hazardous chemicals from being exposed to the environment, and reduces the CO2 emissions down to zero while enabling the extraction of critical metals to empower the smooth transition to green energy.

Find out more here: https://ph7technologies.com/

Power to Hydrogen

Power to Hydrogen (P2H2) is transforming hydrogen production to accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy future. Our patented, hybrid liquid alkaline/AEM (anion exchange membrane) electrolysis technology overcomes the key challenges of hydrogen production—cost, durability, and scalability—making clean hydrogen an accessible solution for industries and energy systems worldwide.  

Find out more here: https://power-h2.com/

Undesert Corporation

Undesert Corporation is an innovative water technology company committed to addressing the critical challenge of water scarcity in arid and drought-stricken regions. Founded in 2021 and based in Los Alamos, New Mexico, we specialize in transforming contaminated and underutilized water sources into clean, usable water through our patented **Salty Wastewater Purification (SWAP)** technology.  

Find out more here: https://www.undesert.com/

Evangeline Leong, Chemical Engineer (Industry PhD), Monash University 

Evangeline is a Chemical Engineer specialising in carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies. With nearly five years of experience spanning research and corporate environments, Evangeline has developed systems-level expertise in CCU technology and pathways. Her career has been defined by blending technical innovation with strategic execution to drive impactful decarbonization initiatives across industries. 

Nehali Jain, Chief of Staff, Antora Energy 

Nehali Jain is the Chief of Staff at Antora Energy. Antora builds and deploys American-made thermal batteries to power always-on industrial operations with low-cost renewable energy.  Nehali leads fundraising and strategic growth at Antora. Prior to joining Antora, Nehali shaped climate strategy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she led the foundation’s climate change adaptation strategy for Asia and collaborated with leadership across four continents to deploy $150M aimed at doubling incomes of hundreds of millions of farmers worldwide.