Maritime transport drives around 3% of global emissions and needs a fuel that can scale into deep-sea routes. Today, green fuels face a deployment trap: high capex, complex supply chains, and uncertain offtake, while ports still need reliable, cost-competitive molecules that fit both today’s infrastructure and tomorrow’s regulation.

At the same time, many legacy ammonia plants are nearing the end of their useful life and need refurbishment, creating a real opportunity for innovators who can drastically improve the techno-economics of production while lowering both land and carbon footprints.

Ammobia re-engineers ammonia production with modular plants designed for low capex and opex, which can be situated near ports and industrial users. The company optimizes the full stack of ammonia production—including hydrogen integration, reaction conditions, and a simplified balance-of-plant—to cut costs and compress timelines.

Compared to traditional processes, Ammobia’s technology can convert hydrogen and nitrogen to ammonia with up to 10x lower pressure, drastically reducing capex costs and enabling low-carbon ammonia production.

Their unique system architecture allows production to be co-located with intermittent renewables and modularized close to end-users, minimizing logistics and enabling phased capacity that grows with demand. The differentiation is not a speculative reactor, but deliberate engineering for efficiency, economics, and scale.

Ammobia’s systems approach makes clean ammonia bankable for bunkering, helping ports lead on climate while also serving industries on land. Ammonia is the second most produced compound in the world, with applications across energy, agriculture, and chemicals, so more sustainable production has impact potential far beyond maritime and the blue economy.

– Anthony Bellafiore, Investment Manager at Katapult Ocean

Ammobia directly touches a maritime decarbonization thesis around port-centric molecules with multiple revenue lanes. Regulatory tailwinds (such as evolving IMO rules, EU ETS maritime extension, and national incentives) and industrial demand create a durable market, while renewable ammonia production has outsized implications for more sustainable supply chains across many industries.​

We invested because Ammobia’s pathway is executable, modular, financeable, and integrated with real customers. Their model turns clean ammonia into a practical maritime workhorse and a vehicle for shifting legacy production towards sustainability across a variety of applications.​

Ammobia’s team is highly impressive. CEO and Co-Founder Karen Baert was recently awarded Woman Scientist of the Year and has assembled a PhD-driven, industry-expert-led team with deep experience in process design and project delivery. These are pragmatists who know how to take a plant from R&D to commissioning and how to structure bankable offtake.

If you’d like to learn more, please get in touch with the team here, or shoot us a message.