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Svante

Cleantech & Climate TechBurnaby, BC

Burnaby-based designer and manufacturer of modular filter and rotary contactor systems that capture CO2 from industrial flue gas and from the air for storage or reuse.

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About

Source: svanteinc.com

Svante describes itself as a purpose-driven carbon capture and removal solutions provider that makes filters and modular rotary contactor machines to capture and remove CO2 from industrial emissions and the air. Its own about page records that the company was founded in 2007 as Inventys Inc. and rebranded to Svante Inc. in 2019, and it is headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia.

  • States it has secured $600 million in total capital investment from strategic partners and investors since founding - a cumulative figure, not a single round. svanteinc.com

  • Through its Carbon Alpha subsidiary and the Meadow Lake Tribal Council, agreed to sell Microsoft 626,000 tonnes of BECCS carbon removal credits over 15 years. svanteinc.com

  • Acquired carbon removal project developer Carbon Alpha Corp. in March 2026; deal terms were not disclosed. svanteinc.com

  • Trade press reports its Redwood facility in Burnaby is a 141,000 sq ft plant able to make filters for up to 10M tonnes/yr of CO2 capture capacity. cleanenergy.ca

  • The Canada Investment Summit pitchbook, per BetaKit, lists a Northern Spruce Project — a bioenergy with carbon capture and storage development in Alberta — as seeking $420-500 million CAD. betakit.com

  • That project name is not corroborated in Svante's own materials; its verified BECCS project is North Star, with the Meadow Lake Tribal Council in Saskatchewan. svanteinc.com

Products & Services

Company site: svanteinc.com

Products Svante publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.

CALF-20 sorbent

Materials

Solid sorbent using metal-organic frameworks coated onto structured adsorbents, designed for CO2 concentrations of 12% and higher.

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Modular rotary contactor machines

Equipment

Machines that capture and remove CO2 from industrial emissions and ambient air using Svante filter technologies.

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OASE blue (BASF)

Licensed solution

Liquid amine-based scrubbing solution from BASF that Svante offers for facilities with lower CO2 concentrations, such as natural gas power plants.

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Partnerships

Publicly announced partnerships.

Microsoft

Agreement through Svante subsidiary Carbon Alpha and the Meadow Lake Tribal Council to sell Microsoft 626,000 tonnes of BECCS carbon removal credits over 15 years.

Recent News

  1. Mar 4, 2026Acquisition

    Svante acquires carbon removal project developer Carbon Alpha Corp.

    Svante acquired carbon dioxide removal project developer Carbon Alpha Corp. Deal terms were not disclosed.

People

Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.

Claude Letourneau

President & Chief Executive Officer

Brett Henkel

Co-Founder & Senior Vice President, Business Development

Terry Lefebvre

Chief Financial Officer

Vaidhyanathan Ramanathan

Chief Scientist

Technology Focus

Company site: svanteinc.com

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Point-source carbon captureDirect air captureSolid sorbent filtersMetal-organic frameworks (MOF)Rotary contactor machinesCarbon dioxide removal credits

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