PyroGenesis' Contract with Varennes Carbon Recycling Plant Project Increases to $3.6 Million

Expands Involvement in Major Quebec Biofuel Project with Additional $1.1 Million Contract

MONTREAL, Feb. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PyroGenesis Inc. ("PyroGenesis") (TSX: PYR) (OTCQX: PYRGF) (FRA: 8PY), a high-tech company that designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes advanced plasma processes and sustainable solutions geared to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) and address environmental pollutants, announces that its subsidiary, Pyro Green-Gas Inc. ("Pyro Green-Gas"), has signed a $1.1 million second contract with the Varennes Carbon Recycling ("VCR") plant, a large biofuel production project currently under construction in Varennes, Quebec. As a result, the overall project contracts with Pyro Green-Gas increase in total to $3.6 million.

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The $1.1 million contract announced today expands on the original project announced by PyroGenesis on June 11, 2024, whereby the company was contracted to engineer, design, and fabricate a thermal swing adsorption (TSA) system for the dehydration of pure oxygen produced from electrolyzers at the VCR plant. Under the terms of the new project, the company will provide additional engineering, technology services, and equipment related to a nitrogen loop system, whereby nitrogen would be fed into the system to regenerate it. Together, this would target the necessary requirement and quality of the eventual product gas.

“As I stated back in June 2024 upon the awarding of the original contract, we were looking forward to potentially increasing our role as the project evolves. This $1.1 million follow-up contract is testament to our efforts to provide high-quality engineering and technology that makes customers in some of the world’s most impactful projects take notice,” noted P. Peter Pascali, President and CEO of PyroGenesis. “Our technologies, such as thermal swing adsorption and pressure swing adsorption, that capture and recover CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions during biofuel production, are key to expanding the energy grid while reducing hazardous emissions. The VCR project has a stated goal of cutting more than 170,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually and 4.25 million tonnes over the project’s 25-year lifespan—equivalent to permanently removing 50,000 passenger vehicles from the road.”

The $1 billion VCR project is being led by a consortium of major corporate partners, including Shell, Suncor, Proman, and Enerkem, with financial backing from the Quebec and Canadian governments. This consortium is constructing Canada’s largest biorefinery, with a capacity to convert up to 200,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste and residual biomass material into 125 million liters of commonly used chemicals and value-added biofuels, such as methanol. The plant will be powered by clean electricity and will leverage renewable green hydrogen and oxygen produced onsite by one of the world’s largest electrolyzers.

Technologies such as thermal swing adsorption and gas separation system technologies are part of PyroGenesis’ three-tiered solution ecosystem that aligns with economic drivers critical to global heavy industry.

These technologies fall under the company’s Energy Transition & Emissions Reduction tier, where gas purification, separation, and conversion technologies, along with fuel switching utilizing PyroGenesis’ electric-powered plasma torches, help heavy industry reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use. The other tiers include Waste Remediation and Commodity Security and Optimization.

About Pyro Green-Gas Inc.

Pyro Green-Gas Inc. offers technologies, equipment, and expertise in biogas upgrading and air pollution controls. Pyro Green-Gas designs and builds:

• Gas upgrading systems to convert biogas to renewable natural gas (RNG).
  
• Pyrolysis-gas purification systems.
  
• Biogas & landfill-gas flares and thermal oxidizers.
  
• Purification of coke-oven gas (COG)—a by-product in the primary steel industry—into high-purity hydrogen, which is in high demand across the industry.
  

Pyro Green-Gas is also known for its line of landfill gas flares, which help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfills.

About PyroGenesis Inc.

PyroGenesis Inc. is a high-tech company and a leader in the design, development, manufacture, and commercialization of advanced plasma processes and sustainable solutions, which reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) and provide economically attractive alternatives to conventional high-emission processes.

PyroGenesis has created proprietary, patented, and advanced plasma technologies, which are being vetted and adopted by multiple multibillion-dollar industry leaders in four massive markets:

• Iron ore pelletization
  
• Aluminum
  
• Waste management
  
• Additive manufacturing
  

With a team of experienced engineers, scientists, and technicians, PyroGenesis operates from its Montreal office and 3,800 m² and 2,940 m² manufacturing facilities. The company maintains a competitive edge by remaining at the forefront of technology development and commercialization. PyroGenesis’ operations are ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certified, having held ISO certification since 1997.

PyroGenesis’ shares are publicly traded on:

• TSX (TSX: PYR) in Canada
  
• OTCQX (OTCQX: PYRGF) in the U.S.
  
• Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FRA: 8PY) in Germany.