Man Yong Toh
Founder and CEO
Background in global innovation and strategy for Heineken, Nike and Tesla. Expert for the European Commission (DG GROW and DG Research and Innovation). Semafor World Economy Principal.
We make carbon materials from what industry throws away.
Aeroborn develops advanced carbon materials from two underused industrial streams: captured CO₂ and battery black mass.
Founded in the Netherlands, with operations in Rotterdam and Athens, we build patented and patent-pending process platforms and take them from the lab to industrial pilots, together with the emitters, recyclers and manufacturers who will use them.
How we got here
From a single pilot to two platforms, each step funded, built and tested in Rotterdam.
- Pilot
CO₂ to carbon, proven
Our first pilot in Rotterdam turned captured CO₂ into solid carbon by decomposition, supported by Kansen voor West.
- Fieldlab
Scaling to industrial size
A TRL 7 unit in an industrial Fieldlab, connected to CO₂ from major emitters, now being commissioned to make carbon and upgrade it into activated carbon.
- Pilot line
Graphite from battery waste
Europe's first industrial pilot line recovering battery-grade graphite from black mass, at RDM with the Just Transition Fund and the Province of Zuid-Holland.
- Today
Into customers' hands
Recovered graphite verified in testing at Bournemouth University and under evaluation with three European battery makers.
Recognition
- ChangeNOW Change 100Top 100 solutions for the planet, 2026
- Semafor World Economy PrincipalCEO Man Yong Toh, 2026
- Marc Cornelissen Brightlands AwardFinalist, 2024
Leadership
Carland Lopez
Chief Technology Officer
Process engineer trained at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Former CTO of Plant One Rotterdam and senior process engineer at SPIE Nederland. Leads process design and the scale-up from pilot to first commercial plant.
Amor Abdelkader, PhD
Chief Science Officer
PhD in materials science from the University of Cambridge, then TU Delft, the University of Manchester and the Cambridge Graphene Centre. Associate professor of advanced materials at Bournemouth University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, with more than 70 papers and 20 patents.
Louis Legrand, PhD
Business Development
PhD from Wageningen University on electrochemical CO₂ capture. Works with battery makers, recyclers and emitters on material qualification and supply.
Partnerships and funding
The programmes, partners and industry bodies behind our work.
What we hold ourselves to
Material performance first
We design for measurable material properties, robust process control and a clear application fit.
Circular inputs, controlled outputs
CO₂ and battery black mass are valuable feedstocks when they can be processed into reliable industrial inputs.
Designed for industrial qualification
Development is guided by customer requirements, qualification pathways and scalable production, not broad sustainability claims.
Scale through partnerships
We work with feedstock providers, industrial partners and material customers to move from platform development to qualified supply.
Where we work
Rotterdam
Aeroborn BV, Innovation Dock, Scheepsbouwweg 8, 3089 JW Rotterdam. Headquarters, pilot lines and laboratory, in the middle of the Port's battery recycling and CO₂ infrastructure.
Athens
Aeroborn S.A., Dimitriou Gounari St. 96, 15125 Amorousion. Development work supported by Greek national programmes.
Start with a material need
Tell us the application, the specification you need and the volumes you expect. We will tell you which route fits and what a sample programme looks like.
