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, start small, and scale up over time

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.

17 years of intense product R&D and 3 spin-offs

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.

2018-2020: the start of large-capacity fuel cell deployments at scale

In 2018 Horizon began the commercialization of its large scale liquid cooled PEMFC systems, and clinched the world`s first large scale commercial contract for 1000 hydrogen trucks in China, the world`s largest EV market.

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.

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