Frontieras North America

About Frontieras North America

Frontieras North America is an energy and environmental technology company bringing industrial innovation to solid hydrocarbon materials, with the aim of delivering abundant, affordable and available energy for all. It describes itself as unleashing the value of the world's most abundant resources and as making emissions reduction profitable through innovation, and it frames its mission as a Rockefeller moment for coal, whose full value it says has been wasted for over a century.

Through its parent company it owns FASForm, a proprietary patented technology that transforms coal, lignite, oil sands and waste plastics into cleaner forms of carbon. With coal as its main feedstock, the process extracts volatiles, moisture and contaminants to create energy and industrial products with zero waste. Those products serve global markets including steel manufacturing, hydrogen and natural gas, and liquid transportation fuels, produced without drilling for crude oil.

The company's first FASForm facilities are planned for Mason County, West Virginia, and its project overview and technology pages describe how the process works. Its story is of roughly sixteen years of development, from a self-funded experiment to a commercial project, as science, technology, economics and politics aligned. Environmental stewardship is described as a core part of its philosophy, with the company highlighting the environmental benefits enabled by the technology.

Frontieras sells its energy and carbon products into global energy and industrial markets and positions itself in coal upgrading, clean fuels and carbon materials, selling to steel makers, fuel and gas buyers and industrial customers, with a newsroom of insights, press releases and press coverage.