Own your market. We bring the machine.
Zero-X holds the global master license to the X-150. We don't build every plant on earth — we equip partners who own their territories, and hand them the technology, the supply chain and the grant playbook.
EX-AI Summit 2026 · 18–20 Nov · Las Palmas & Bali →We keep the technology. You own the territory.
Zero-X is the hub — technology, IP, engineering, grants, R&D and quality. Partners are the spokes — local market access, feedstock, capital, permits, sales and operations. Together we scale faster than either could alone.
A funded market, and the only machine that fits it.
The only machine for real waste
Proven on high-ash sludge, MSW and digestate — everyone else needs clean wood.
Independently validated
Paris COMETHA, Verkoso (Fraunhofer IKTS), Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz.
Governments fund 56–70%
Of project CAPEX in target markets — and we hand you the playbook to win it.
A mandated market
EU sewage-sludge rules force thousands of plants to act by 2029–2032.
Multiple revenue lines per site
Power, heat, gate fees, carbon and phosphorus-rich biochar.
Carbon capture & mineral extraction
Every unit sequesters carbon into stable biochar and recovers phosphorus and minerals from waste streams.
Three ways in — plus a seat for capital.
National Master Partner
A country license. For established energy/waste developers, industrial groups or family offices with government relationships.
Regional / Project Development Partner
For regional developers, waste operators, agri-industry and municipalities.
Local Distribution & Service Partner
Lowest barrier to entry. For engineering firms, equipment distributors and local service companies.
Capital / Investment Partner
Co-invests in the build-own-operate SPVs alongside any tier.
What each tier carries.
| National Master | Regional Dev. | Local Distribution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Territory | Country (exclusive*) | Region | Local area |
| Sell units | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Build & operate | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Sublicense | ✓ | — | — |
| Use Zero-X brand | Full | Co-brand | Authorised reseller |
| Grant playbook | Full | Project-level | — |
| Volume commitment | High | Per project | Sales / service |
| O&M certification | Required | Required | Required |
*Exclusivity contingent on annual deployment milestones. Fee schedules are set per market and defined in the partner agreement.
A clean division of labour.
We anchor each market with one grant-funded reference project.
Prove it, then sign exclusivity. The rollout moves in three waves.
We score every applicant on six things.
Grant / subsidy access
It's how projects get funded in your market.
Feedstock control
Farm, municipal, WWTP or industrial waste streams.
Capital
Or a credible route to project finance.
Technical / O&M
Capability, or willingness to certify.
Regulatory & permitting
A track record of getting projects approved.
Market reputation
And existing relationships.
Existing waste / energy / EPC operations · government relationships · an ESG mandate.
Pure brokers with no local capacity, no capital and no feedstock.
From application to fleet.
The ladder is gone. The orchestrators are here.
For eighty years the instruction was the same: pick a lane, go deep, climb. Hold one narrow specialism and you were safe, because knowing something rare was the asset. That instruction has been repriced, and the people it was written for are finding out first.
Orchestration. The next decade is not won by owning one craft. It is won by standing across several and directing them — technology, supply chain, the grant playbook, the territory — and letting partners who own their markets run the last mile. That is the room Zero-X builds in.
One argument runs through everything the group runs: the book, EX Epic Academy (25,000 applications, 25 seats per cohort, 210 alumni across 19 countries), the EX-AI Summit 2026 on 18-20 November (Online, Las Palmas, Bali), and the ventures that have to prove it every quarter.
Available for advisory, board seats and media appearances. EX Epic Academy crosses every company in the group, including the ones that sit outside this venture.
Latest updates.
The Field, by the Numbers: X-150 vs. the Small-Scale Competition
A direct, no-spin comparison of the X-150 against Spanner Re2, Volter, and Burkhardt — efficiency, CAPEX, syngas quality, feedstock tolerance, and maintenance. The X-150 wins the moment the fuel stops being clean wood.
Waste to Hydrogen Companies: Who Is Actually Running
The 2026 field guide to waste to hydrogen companies, sorted by evidence: who is operating, who is only permitted, who went bankrupt, and how to tell.
Is Biochar Production Profitable? The Real Revenue Math
Is biochar production profitable? Char sales alone lose money in a 20 year cost-benefit study. The five revenue lines, real 2026 prices and what fixes it.
The people behind it.
Partial funding provided by.
Zero-X's development programme is supported by public funding bodies across the European Union and Germany, backing the intellectual-property portfolio and the applied research behind the X-150 platform.
Claim a territory.
Tell us your market, your feedstock and your reach. We'll assess the fit under NDA.
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