Memphis company eyes multistate expansion; scores Fast Company innovation nod

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."

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