Waste to Feedstock
Turning waste into a bankable product
Mana turns residual waste into Engineered Waste Feedstock: a defined, qualified input for waste-to-fuel plants.
A growing waste challenge meets rising demand for low-carbon fuels
The world produces more residual waste every year. Shipping, aviation and industry need far more low-carbon fuel than is made today. One can supply the other.
The residual waste challenge
municipal waste generated in 2022
projected annual volume by 2050
is uncollected or openly dumped
The clean energy challenge
FuelEU Maritime GHG-intensity reduction by 2050
SAF share required at EU airports by 2050
methanol-capable vessels in operation or on order
Sources: World Bank, 2026; European Commission; DNV, 2025.
Engineered Waste Feedstock
A new value chain, ready to scale. Mana makes the link that was missing.
Waste is highly variable
Film, cardboard, textiles, wood, metal and rubber: industrial residual waste changes with every source, site and season. Moisture, ash and chlorine swing with it. No standard tells a developer or lender whether a given stream will perform in a plant.
Waste streams are matched to the gasifier
Mana qualifies each waste stream, sets the gasifier's operating window and engineers a feedstock recipe that fits it. What comes out is Engineered Waste Feedstock: the same every time, and ready for gasification.
Gasifiers need predictable feedstock
Consistent input gives consistent syngas, and a plant that runs as designed.
What is gasification? The feedstock is heated to over 1200 °C with too little oxygen for it to burn. Instead of ash and flue gas, it breaks down into syngas: hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
Syngas is converted to circular methanol
Over a catalyst, the hydrogen and carbon monoxide combine into methanol, which can also be processed further into sustainable aviation fuel.
What is methanol? CO + 2H2 → CH3OH. A liquid fuel that is stored and bunkered much like today's marine fuels, and that ships already run on.
Loaded, and off to sea
The methanol goes to shipping and, as SAF, to aviation. Without a reliable feedstock there is no reliable syngas, and no scalable waste-to-fuel value chain. That is the problem Mana solves.
Your browser could not start the 3D view. The value chain runs from waste sourcing through Engineered Waste Feedstock, gasification and methanol synthesis to offtake by ship.
Market
Market forces are converging around waste-to-fuels
Offtake demand is locked in by regulation, feedstock is abundant and cheap, and the first plants are moving from study to steel.
Offtake market
Shipping and aviation are locking in long-term demand for low-carbon fuels
- 450+methanol-capable vessels in operation or on order
- 70%SAF share required at EU airports by 2050
DNV, 2025; European Commission.
Feedstock market
Waste is a large, growing and low-cost feedstock that needs to be made reliable
- ~500waste-to-energy plants in Europe
- ~36 Mtof waste used by EU cement plants a year
CEWEP (2026); CEMBUREAU.
Our customers
A growing waste‑to‑X ecosystem, where every plant needs predictable feedstock
Waste managers, project developers, technology providers and industrial asset operators.
- 75projects want to turn waste into fuel
- 10residual-waste methanol projects under way worldwide
GENA Solutions and Methanol Institute, Project Navigator Methanol, April 2025; GENA Solutions, Renewable Methanol Update (Aug 2026).
Started with projects. Now building technology.
Founded as a spin-out of NG Nordic, which handles 4.4 million tonnes of waste a year
Waste-to-methanol projects taken through feasibility, with Equinor and Renavia
Steps from waste to qualified feedstock: waste and technology qualification, feedstock engineering, optimisation, validation
First project ready for pre-FEED, and what the projects taught us becomes a platform for the whole industry
Industrial and research partners
We are building the waste data platform
Mana is turning project-specific expertise into scalable infrastructure for the waste-to-X industry, together with waste managers, project developers, technology providers and plant operators.