Headquartered at Fort William First Nation, Ontario
Carbonix originates projects around processes it developed itself, first in iron conversion, and develops them through engineering, permits and early engagement with the communities they affect. Partners build, own and pay for the plants. Carbonix keeps a royalty on every tonne, because the plants run on its process.
A written method
A seven-stage screen and a ten-stage development process, run the same way on every project on Carbonix’s own AI-assisted platform.
Indigenous participation, in four steps
Creating awareness, then engagement, consultation and participation, starting early and on the community’s terms.
Founders with 75+ years of collective experience
Renewable energy, linear corridor and mining projects, plus process and technology development.
As of October 2026
SGS Canada
definitive agreement for the P180 pilot
Signed June 2026
38
sites screened
33 ore assets
19
sites cleared
with gas and ore
6
priority sites
8 priority ore targets
1
anchor project
in origination
Pipeline figures are screening counts, not rights: no site has been selected or optioned, and no tonnes are contracted.
Carbonix doesn’t build or run plants, and carries none of their capital. It finds projects where its technology fits, develops them into a package an owner can build, and vends them, keeping a royalty on every tonne. Here’s how that works in iron, the first line.
Find sites where ore, natural gas and logistics come together. A P180 plant needs all three.
Talk early with the communities and rights holders a site affects, before any sampling.
Validate the process on the owner’s own ore.
Engineering, permits and regulatory work, run through a written project development process.
Pass the packaged project to an owner-operator, who builds and runs the plant.
Keep a royalty on every tonne the plant produces.
Carbonix is an emerging royalty generator: it has no royalties yet, and no project has reached a vend. What it has is a written method for getting there. Behind the six steps above sit a seven-stage screen and a ten-stage development process, applied the same way to every opportunity and run on Carbonix’s own platform.
An opportunity has to answer seven questions before it gets development time: is there a market, does the technology fit, who would own the plant, is there a verified price, what test must it pass, what standing does Carbonix have, and is it worth a full development or better as a licence. Each question names the evidence it needs, and an opportunity that can’t produce it is parked or dropped.
Screen, rank, engage, sample, test the ore, qualify it on the SGS pilot, secure the ore supply, choose the site and complete preliminary engineering, form the project company, vend. It runs as a schedule of 194 tasks and milestones, each with a test for when it’s done, a person responsible, and the agreement, permit or rule that governs it.
Every stage ends with a board decision or a counterparty’s signature, never a date on a calendar. Test results are judged against pass marks set before the tests are run. No community, producer or partner is named publicly until they agree to it.
Our origination platform
It is Carbonix’s own AI-assisted platform for originating, shaping and developing projects, where concepts are shaped into real projects. Every potential project is assessed against the seven-stage screen, and those that pass move into the development process. AI assists the assessment and forecasting of outcomes at every stage, so the team sees early, and often, where each project is heading, and people review every result before it is used. The platform does the same, and more, for process development: on the P180 pilot, its AI narrows where to look before a campaign, runs alongside the pilot and reads what comes back. It is built for Carbonix’s own use and is not for sale.
Request the white paperMany resource projects in Canada sit on the traditional territories of Indigenous Nations. Carbonix works with communities in four steps, starting early: creating awareness of what a project could mean; engagement, to hear the community’s priorities; consultation where it is required, tracked task by task; and participation, where the community chooses to take part, on its terms. To ensure every step of the process is handled with respect, Carbonix works with Maawandoon Inc. (www.maawandoon.ca).
Convert your own ore to metallic iron in a single plant, on your own rail-and-port route.
Carbonix originates projects around technology it developed itself. Iron conversion comes first; carbon materials are next.
First line: iron conversion
P180 is designed to take mine concentrate to hot briquetted iron in a single plant, where today’s route needs three. Its pilot program runs with SGS Canada at Lakefield.
100+ Mt a year
The shortfall of direct-reduction-grade iron ore McKinsey & Company projects by 2031.
Next lines: carbon materials
Engineered carbons for water treatment, tailings and energy storage, from more than a decade of Carbonix carbon-materials work. Partners make and supply them under licence, and Carbonix keeps a royalty.
Organic removal
Metals and selenium
Tailings flocculants
Hard carbon
Synthetic graphite
Tailored carbonsSGS Canada, Lakefield
The P180 pilot program.
Coanda
Testing for oil sands applications.
Trent University
Adsorptive technologies and products.
Ontario Tech University
Validation of electrochemistry applications.
Carbonix’s three co-founders each bring 25+ years of development experience, originating renewable energy, linear corridor and mining projects and taking them from site selection through engagement and permitting.
Carbonix is majority Indigenous-owned and headquartered at Fort William First Nation, Ontario.
President, CEO, CTO and Co-Founder
Brings 25+ years of originating and developing renewable energy and resource projects, and deep expertise in carbon materials science: chemical and steam activation, the functionalization of solid carbons, polymer chemistries and electrochemical applications. Leads Carbonix’s technology and strategy.
Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer
Leads project development. Has worked on a variety of renewable energy, linear corridor and mining projects, with long experience of First Nations engagement and consultation.
Co-Founder
Brings long experience of Indigenous engagement and government relations across a variety of energy, linear corridor and mining projects, building partnerships with provincial, federal and Indigenous governments. With Marvin Pelletier, he led the Energy East and Greenstone Gold engagement programs through Maawandoon Inc.
Each paper takes one question and answers it from published sources or test results. Request a copy of any of them.
October 2026, 6 pages
Carbonix’s own AI-assisted platform for originating, shaping and developing projects: what it is, how AI makes it better and how it sets Carbonix apart.
Request a copySeptember 2026, 5 pages
Why the route from iron ore concentrate to electric-furnace iron takes three plants today, what happens when all three collapse into one, and where that plant can be built.
Request a copySeptember 2026, 7 pages
The technical reason Canadian iron ore leaves the country unprocessed, what has changed, and why value capture is a question of contract and ownership rather than of location.
Request a copySeptember 2026, 7 pages
Feedstock availability for on-site iron metallization: a screening study of the global iron-ore base for the P180 process.
Request a copySeptember 2026, 10 pages
The energy price, the infrastructure bill and the deployment clock behind electrolytic hydrogen, and what they imply for ironmaking process selection.
Request a copySeptember 2026, 10 pages
What carbon-free direct-reduced iron costs the melt shop that buys it, and why the answer belongs in a metallic specification rather than a sustainability narrative.
Request a copyAugust 2026, 9 pages
Sequencing capital against decisive evidence in pre-commercial process technology.
Request a copyOctober 2026, 9 pages
A wider operating window, cleaner release water and a denser deposit, in tests at Coanda, NAIT and Trent University.
Request a copyPeer-reviewed research on Carbonix’s carbon materials is on the carbon materials page.
October 2026
The AI-assisted platform behind the method: what it is, how AI makes it better and how it sets Carbonix apart.
October 2026
Results from tests at Coanda, NAIT and Trent University.
September 2026
Paul Pede on why the P180 pilot is being run at Lakefield.
September 2026
The carbon technology suite beyond iron, in one page.
June 2026
The agreement for the P180 pilot program.
Ore producers, steelmakers, investors, communities and partners: we’d like to hear from you.
697 Mountain Rd.
Fort William First Nation, ON P7J 1C1
Canada