eManufacturing at Commercial Scale
- Catalyst
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AirPlant™ One, Twelve’s first commercial eManufacturing facility, represents a major milestone in the transition to a new way of making fuels and chemicals—one that replaces fossil feedstocks with carbon dioxide, water, and renewable electricity.
In Moses Lake, Washington, a new chapter in industrial manufacturing is taking shape.
AirPlant™ One, Twelve’s first commercial eManufacturing facility, represents a major milestone in the transition to a new way of making fuels and chemicals—one that replaces fossil feedstocks with carbon dioxide, water, and renewable electricity. Built on 14 acres of repurposed industrial land, the facility demonstrates how essential products can be manufactured using abundant, domestic resources rather than relying on extraction-based supply chains.
As the world seeks scalable solutions to reduce emissions while meeting growing demand for energy and materials, AirPlant One offers a glimpse into the future of industrial production.
A New Model for Manufacturing
For more than a century, fuel and chemical production has depended on extracting and refining fossil resources. Twelve is reimagining that model through its proprietary eManufacturing platform, which uses renewable electricity to transform CO₂ and water into the building blocks for fuels and chemicals.
At AirPlant One, Twelve’s power-to-liquid technology combines an electrolyzer and specialized catalysts to convert CO₂ and water into synthesis gas. That synthesis gas is then processed through Fischer-Tropsch and downstream upgrading technologies to create products including E-Jet® fuel and E-Naphtha™ material.
The result is a manufacturing platform that can be deployed wherever three key inputs are available: carbon dioxide, water, and renewable electricity.
Unlike conventional production systems, eManufacturing requires no upstream extraction and avoids dependence on agricultural feedstocks. This flexibility creates new opportunities to localize production and strengthen supply chain resilience while reducing lifecycle emissions.
Why Moses Lake?
Washington State offers some of the most favorable conditions in the United States for eManufacturing. The state combines a low-carbon electricity grid powered largely by renewable resources with some of the nation’s most ambitious clean fuels policies.
These advantages made Moses Lake an ideal location for Twelve’s first commercial facility.
AirPlant One was designed with an initial production capacity of approximately 40,000 gallons of E-Jet fuel annually, while also providing a pathway for future expansion. More importantly, the facility serves as a commercial-scale demonstration of how Twelve’s technology can be deployed to produce fuels and chemicals across a range of geographies and industries.
Scaling Sustainable Aviation Fuel
One of the primary products manufactured at AirPlant One is E-Jet® fuel, Twelve’s power-to-liquid sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF).
Made entirely from CO₂, water, and renewable electricity, E-Jet fuel requires no agricultural feedstocks, no fossil fuel inputs, and has no land-use change impacts. Compared to conventional jet fuel, it can achieve up to 90% lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions.
Equally important, E-Jet fuel is a true drop-in fuel. It is compatible with existing aircraft engines, fuel infrastructure, and airport operations, enabling adoption without requiring changes to aircraft or fueling systems.
The technology has already achieved significant validation. In 2021, E-Jet fuel was tested by the U.S. Air Force, demonstrating strong performance against military aviation fuel standards.
Industry momentum has continued to build. In 2022, Twelve, Alaska Airlines, and Microsoft signed a joint memorandum of understanding to accelerate E-Jet deployment and work toward the first U.S. commercial demonstration flight powered by power-to-liquid fuel. The following year, Alaska Airlines strengthened that commitment by signing a bankable, take-or-pay offtake agreement with Twelve.
Building the Future of eManufacturing
AirPlant One is more than a production facility—it is proof that a different industrial future is possible.
By demonstrating commercial-scale production using CO₂, water, and renewable electricity, the facility validates Twelve’s vision for electrifying fuel and chemical manufacturing. The same technology platform used to produce E-Jet fuel can also create a broad range of products, including marine fuels and chemical feedstocks, extending the impact of eManufacturing across multiple sectors.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, Twelve has grown into a next-generation industrial company with a mission to replace petroleum-derived inputs with sustainable alternatives. Backed by more than $900 million in funding—including project finance and project equity—and supported by leading investors across climate, technology, finance, and industry, the company is working to scale a new manufacturing paradigm.
AirPlant One marks an important step on that journey: demonstrating that fuels and chemicals can be produced from abundant, domestic resources, and showing how eManufacturing can help build a more resilient, lower-carbon industrial economy.
The future of manufacturing won’t be defined by what we extract from the ground. It will be defined by what we can create from the resources already around us.
