The Industrial New Wave
Updated: Nov 2
Twelve is building a new industrial model with AirPlant™, a distributed Power-to-X refining platform that turns CO2, water and renewable electricity into essential fuels and chemicals. By expanding how and where we produce hydrocarbons, we are building a more advanced, diversified, and resilient industrial future.
The future is often described in terms of the immaterial: data, intelligence and energy. But we live in a material world, built from the molecules that become our fuels, chemicals and everyday products. Advancing how we make those molecules is as fundamental to industrial progress as advancing the technologies that move information and generate power.
For 150 years, modern industry has been built on the same basic foundation: extracting hydrocarbons from the ground and refining them into the things our economy depends on. That foundation reaches from transportation and manufacturing to consumer products, critical infrastructure and defense. The next great industrial advance is an opportunity to expand that foundation, diversifying how we produce hydrocarbons, where we produce them and what we can make from them.
Twelve is building what comes next: a world made from air. AirPlant™ defines a new industrial model: a distributed Power-to-X refining platform that changes the way we make things from the molecule up. By turning CO2, water and renewable electricity into hydrocarbons, AirPlant establishes a new foundation for producing the fuels and chemicals that underpin the global economy. This is the Industrial New Wave.
A New Way to Make What the World Needs
AirPlant changes the starting point of hydrocarbon production. Rather than extracting those molecules from petroleum, we synthesize them from CO2 and water, using electricity to power the transformation. The result is a new pathway to products that serve existing markets, connecting advances in chemistry to the infrastructure and industries already operating around us.
AirPlant™ One in Moses Lake, Washington, is the first node in this distributed refining platform. It produces two flagship products: E-Jet® fuel, a drop-in synthetic aviation fuel, and E-Naphtha™, a key chemical building block for thousands of everyday products. Together, they demonstrate how one industrial platform can serve both the fuels that power our economy and the materials that shape daily life.
Through eMade, Twelve partners with brands to turn E-Naphtha into consumer products, connecting a new chemical feedstock to familiar categories. This brings the opportunity beyond industrial production and into product development, giving brands a new foundation for innovation in what they make and how they make it.
The broader portfolio extends across transportation, infrastructure and defense through Electrol™ eDiesel, E-Marine™ and AirPlant Tactical Fuels. These applications reflect a central advantage of the AirPlant model: a common production platform with the potential to serve multiple products and markets. The ambition is bigger than any single fuel or chemical.
From Plant to Distributed Refining Platform
AirPlant introduces a fundamentally different approach to hydrocarbon production, with electricity at the center of the model. Because Power-to-X production can be paired with different sources of abundant power, AirPlants can be designed around the energy resources and industrial infrastructure available in each region, from hydropower to nuclear. AirPlant One demonstrates the model today in Moses Lake, Washington, where the facility is powered by 100% Columbia River hydropower. This flexibility creates the foundation for a more distributed refining network, with production located around available power, strategic infrastructure and centers of demand.
A distributed refining network would give industry more options for where essential fuels and chemicals are made. It could bring production closer to demand, diversify sources of supply and reduce dependence on any single production location. Resilience becomes something we can design into the industrial base through greater choice in feedstocks, facilities and supply routes.
AirPlant One is the starting point for that network, not the endpoint of the technology. Moving from plant to platform means translating operating experience into repeatable systems, more efficient production and additional capacity. Scale must be built through engineering, reliable operations, customer partnerships and the disciplined work of delivering products that meet real-world requirements.
Built by People Who Know How to Build
Industrial progress takes curiosity, invention and the ingenuity to apply existing tools in new ways. It also takes people who understand how to commission equipment, operate plants safely, maintain systems and solve problems under real conditions. The experience developed across petroleum, chemicals, manufacturing and energy is essential to building what comes next.
This is consequential, physical work. It asks scientists, engineers, operators and commercial partners to connect a new production pathway to the demands of established industries. Each advance must move beyond the laboratory and become something that can be built, operated, supplied and used.
We are not just envisioning the future of industry. We are building real technology, real plants, real products and real infrastructure, starting at AirPlant One and working toward a distributed refining network. Our ambition is an industrial base with more ways to produce what the world needs, built for diversification, resilience and strength.
A world made from air is a vision with an industrial plan behind it: turn abundant inputs into essential products, build the capacity to deliver them and extend that capability across markets.
This is the Industrial New Wave. Let’s build.
