Newlight Technologies, based in Huntington Beach, California, was founded in 2003 by Mark Herrema and Kenton Kimmel, driven by a simple yet transformative question: what if greenhouse gas could be turned into valuable, high-performance materials?
Inspired by nature, the founders spent more than 17 years developing a way to harness natural microorganisms that consume methane, mimicking a biological process found in the ocean.
Newlight’s breakthrough innovation is Aircarbon®, a unique biomolecule created by using ocean-inspired fermentation to biologically convert methane into a melt-processable material called polyhydroxybutyrate, or PHB. Unlike technologies that solely capture and store carbon, Newlight turns greenhouse gas into a high-performance material.
For the beauty industry, Newlight offers an innovative low-carbon biomaterial that can be incorporated into packaging applications.