Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies Pte. Ltd.
Horizons founding story is one that fueled with curiosity, ambition, and willingness to move forward in one of the most difficult technology spaces, and one that achieves success against all odds. Already working as a corporate team within Eastman Chemicals` international technology venturing arm and innovation team in the late 90s, George Gu - at the Shanghai office, and Taras Wankewycz at Eastman`s European HQ in the Netherlands, joined forces with a mission to build the world`s first profitable fuel cell company. Technology-agnostic and commercially focused, their ambition was to achieve sustainable decarbonisation targets without relying on government subsidies, billions of dollars of private capital, and to first and foremost - create the world`s first and only profitable fuel cell company, in an industry that had not seen a profit in 30 years, and was still quite far from breaking through.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Fuel Cells
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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Welcome
Founded in 2003, Horizon embarked on a global mission to create a safe, clean and sustainable future for humanity. Our technology, products, and applications, have evolved over a 17 year journey to create the world's most powerful zero emission fuel cells, turning vision to reality every step of the way.
Message from our Chairman
Our mission is to replace hydrocarbon fuels with an end to end zero carbon energy solution, seeking out the highest possible global impact in the nearest possible time frame.
Pragmatic and commercially-driven, Horizon embarked on a near impossible challenge 17 years ago. Through the years, the company went from strength to strength, from humble beginnings to building up a world leading technology, product, and manufacturing platform.
Now we're making it happen: trains, ships, planes, trucks, busses and power plants - all are starting to transition to Horizon's hydrogen-electric technologies.
Our world-class team and eco-system partners are at the forefront of transforming the world as we know it, watch this space!
COMING SOON
Horizon has made progressively higher powered fuel cell modules as the years passed by, and is now a major producer of both air cooled and liquid cooled fuel cells.
The Gen-2 automotive fuel cells from Horizon were best in class on release, with power density above 4.2kW/l.
The soon to be released Gen-3 fuel cells from Horizon include an ultralight version with a record power density of 6kW/l.
World Record 500hp Fuel Cell Stack (370kW)
The most powerful single module PEM fuel cell in the world.
End to End Manufacturing at Scale
Enabling our transition to a Hydrogen Economy
Over the course of the past 17 years, Horizon has set up a globally unique end to end production capability in-house, ranging from catalysts to membrane electrode assemblies, to bipolar plate designs and fuel cell stack and system assemblies.
In 2019, Horizon installed over 20MW of fuel cell systems in commercial vehicles, leveraging flexible manufacturing systems that enabled the company to deploy anything from small air cooled fuel cells of a few watts up to single fuel cell modules of 150kW.
2008: zero emission solutions for industry
As Horizon continued to scale up the size of its fuel cells, it also scaled up access to hydrogen whether as a packaged gas container (e.g. BOC / Linde Genie cylinders), or using on-demand, on-site production such reformer systems for back-up power applications. In 2008, Horizon ventured with one of the world's leading hydrogen suppliers to begin replacing diesel generators for industrial lighting, construction sites and off-grid repair activities.
About us
The founding team chose Singapore as its global headquarters in 2003, and set forth a three phase commercialisation roadmap, dropping technology costs, and removing the age-old hydrogen supply barriers. One of the company's main success factors was to start commercialisation with small and simple products that can function on tiny amounts of hydrogen to reduce logistics barriers, while preparing for larger and more complex products.
It didn't matter what the product or the market was at the start, as long as the outcome created an opportunity to start the operations engine and re-invest positive cash flow into increasingly complex products.
During the course of Horizon's history, more former Eastman colleagues joined and took leadership roles - including founding shareholder Craig Knight, now CEO of Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies.
Think big and start small has been the guiding principle of Horizon's evolution over the years, as well as the entrepreneurial philosophy of the team in all of its various product initiatives. The premise is simple:'if we can't succeed with the simplest products, what makes us think we can succeed in more complex ones'. The story of Horizon is one of constant evolution, innovation and re-invention across several applications and markets.
Horizon's evolution is a unique story, as it evolved from one market to another - from retail-friendly consumer products to professional industrial systems of all shapes and sizes, while introducing numerous hydrogen storage and production technologies, ranging from electrolysis, to hydrolysis, to reforming.
In 2008 Horizon introduced the world's only desktop electrolyzer dubbed HYDROFILL capable of charging small metal hydride cartridges automatically.
This compact hydrogen on demand solution is now used in schools and university labs around the world as an alternative to large and complex cylinder gas tank installations.
Horizon ultimately emerged as the world's largest volume producer of fuel cells regardless of size or power level, serving customers in over 65 countries with the widest selection of commercial products in the fuel cell industry, with industry leading technical performances.
Over the course of its 17 year history, Horizon went on to spin-off 3 application focused companies, including Horizon Educational - the world's leading clean energy and hydrogen science education company, HES Energy Systems - a global leader in hydrogen-electric aerial mobility solutions, and more recently - HYZON Motors, a fast-growing global leader in hydrogen electric heavy vehicles.
Since then, the company started to partner with bus and coach makers, as well as commercial delivery vehicle manufacturers and formed HYZON MOTORS Inc, with its global headquarters and engineering center located at the former General Motors fuel cell facility in upstate New York. This new facility is destined to become the benchmark in high power fuel cell production in the USA.