About Us

Formative Capital was founded to design, develop and execute projects within the Renewables Sector

The founding team collectively has over a century of international experience across the oil & gas and renewables sectors.

Executive and Senior Management team have a strong track record in business development, project management, and operations with large global companies (e.g., Dow, SABIC, DuPont, UOP, Sasol) and commercializing new start-ups (e.g., Midori, Converge Polyols, Novomer).

Individuals from the Executive and Senior management have been listed amongst Top 10 Renewable Leaders, Top 100 Business Leaders in the USA, and as inventors on over 200 international patents and patent applications.

Founding Principles

  • Deployment of commercial technologies with performance guarantees​
  • Positive impact on CO2 emissions​
  • No liquid organic waste​
  • Net zero water philosophies embedded into design principles​
  • Circular economy principles included in design principles​
  • Strong ESG focus​
  • Community development​

Formative is constantly engaging with different institutions, public and private, to develop the next generation of renewable chemicals and products. We focus on superior sustainable solutions, biodegradability, and novel new materials for the automotive, aerospace, packaging, and consumer goods companies.

Formative develops bio-refineries based on commercially established processes to make widely used renewable chemicals and polymers that enable our partners. Our designs embrace the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, no liquid organic waste, incorporating net-zero water and circular economy principles.

Our business philosophy embraces a people, planet, profit model.

  • We engage and collaborate with local communities
  • We enter into job creation partnerships with communities experiencing severe economic distress
  • We share profits on a more equitable basis and ensure all agricultural activity associated with our sites is done in an environmentally responsible manner

Our technical solutions are low risk, our philosophy is simple, and we use tried and trusted processes to produce renewable chemicals and polymers. We have no time to re-invent the wheel. We go with what works, and our success is defined by applying known technologies to answer novel questions.

Formative’s management team has worked in a wide range of companies, seeing hundreds of ways to solve problems, all of which were claimed to be best-in-class. At Formative, we believe that to be best-in-class requires us to allow each member of our team to be their best.

Our Lines of Busines

We work within the current systems to build the social ecosystem around each bio-refinery.

  • We leverage agricultural programs associated with our sites to create financial stability for the farming community
  • We enable local farmers to safely increase the output of other agricultural products
  • We improve food security with a unique agricultural business model