Orion links with RISE to produce renewable carbon black Print Houston, Texas – Orion Engineered Carbons SA has formed a partnership with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden to develop and produce renewable carbon black. The link-up is part of Orion’s efforts to move to “more climate-neutral” carbon black production by replacing traditional carbon black feedstock with pyrolysis oil from biomass oil. Orion plans to convert the biomass oil into carbon black using its small-scale furnace reactor in Kalscheuren, Germany and explore ways to upscale the process. RISE, meanwhile, will use a pilot-scale reactor at its site in Piteå, Sweden to evaluate the use of 'electro-fuels', such as plasma or hydrogen from electrolysis, as sustainable heat sources for the carbon black process.