By Stephen MacLeod, Memphis Business Journal
A local startup is entering its scale-up period, with another major award under its belt.
Memphis-based carbon capture company Graphyte has been named one of the most innovative sustainable companies in 2025 by Fast Company. And Graphyte looks to add to its current capabilities so it can begin to increase its production capacity.
“We’re thrilled by how much we’ve accomplished over the last two years,” Graphyte founder and CEO Barclay Rogers told MBJ. “And we’re a rapidly growing startup, so we’re looking to accomplish even more over the next two years.”
The company, which captures carbon by creating bricks from biomass waste from farms or timber, has a production facility in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The facility currently has the capability of removing 15,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide by turning biomass into bricks, which it then buries. This year, the company hopes to get the Pine Bluff facility up to 50,000 metric tons. The expansion is designed to be modular to allow for Graphyte to begin eyeing more production.
“We expect to complete that expansion later this year, and then we have multiple other projects in development,” Rogers said. “We are expanding throughout the Southeast, as well as in the American West and even into Canada now. We’ve already started our scaling journey.”
Read more in the Memphis Business Journal.