'We’re going after the hard-to-crack problem – heavy industry’

9 jan. 2025
08:00
From landfill and construction to the tyre industry, fast-growing British climate tech company Levidian is on a mission to decarbonise the world’s most carbon-intensive sectors. In this exclusive interview with Impact Loop, CEO John Hartley shares:
→ How Levidian’s unique technology captures carbon from methane
→ Why the company is making and auctioning ‘super-material’ graphene
→ The key challenges facing climate tech companies in 2025
→ How Levidian’s unique technology captures carbon from methane
→ Why the company is making and auctioning ‘super-material’ graphene
→ The key challenges facing climate tech companies in 2025
There are typically sixty workers on-site at Levidian’s technology centre just outside Cambridge. Twenty years ago, John Hartley was a geography student at the city’s prestigious university, just a few kilometres away. Now he leads this thriving British climate tech business, which is working with heavy industry clients in the UK, Malaysia, Brazil, and the Middle East, and plans European expansion in 2025.
“We've got an increasing flow of people from around the world coming to see us,” Hartley tells Impact Loop on an early morning video call. “The business case works.”