Frontieras to Open West Virginia Plant to Turn Coal Into Fuel, Fertilizer

The company projects the plant to process 2.7 million tons of coal a year—about 0.5 percent of U.S. production.

Coal is being loaded onto a truck at a coal mine at the top of Kayford Mountain in West Virginia on June 12, 2008. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Frontieras North America closed on a riverfront property on Jan 19 at the Ohio border in West Virginia, where the company plans to build its first zero-emission commercial plant to turn coal into fuel, fertilizers, and other carbon products.

Upon completion, the $850 million project will be the company’s first coal reformation flagship facility in the United States. The energy and environmental technology company first announced the project in 2022.