Company Description
HyOrc Corporation (symbol: HYOR) is a clean-energy company in the specialty industrial machinery industry within the industrials sector. The company focuses on technologies and projects that support the decarbonization of heavy industry, with particular emphasis on green methanol production, hydrogen- and multi‑fuel locomotive retrofits, and modular power systems. HyOrc’s shares trade on the OTC market under the HYOR ticker, and the company has described itself as an SEC-reporting, PCAOB-audited and ISO-certified issuer.
Business Focus and Clean-Energy Platform
According to company statements, HyOrc develops and commercializes waste-to-methanol systems, hydrogen engines for rail and maritime applications, and distributed power solutions. Its platform is built around patented external-combustion and Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technologies that can operate on hydrogen, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas, renewable natural gas and other cleaner fuels. The company positions these systems as practical tools for reducing emissions in sectors that are difficult to decarbonize, such as freight rail and marine shipping.
Green Methanol and Waste-to-Fuel Technology
HyOrc’s green methanol business is based on waste-to-fuel technology that converts municipal solid waste and refuse-derived fuel (RDF) into methanol. The company highlights a vertically integrated, closed-loop system described as aqua plasma gasification, designed to provide high-efficiency, lower-capital-cost production of green methanol without relying on large-scale electrolysis. HyOrc states that this approach can turn widely available, negative-cost waste into high-purity green methanol, with the goal of serving the emerging market for compliant marine fuels under International Maritime Organization (IMO) and European regulations.
HyOrc reports a development history that includes a 3-ton-per-day RDF-to-methanol pilot plant in the United Arab Emirates, a 25-ton-per-day gasifier in India, and a 1-ton-per-day methanol unit in Tamil Nadu, India. Building on these projects, the company is advancing a 35-ton-per-day commercial plant in Porto, Portugal through a joint venture called HyOrc Start Green Fuels, Lda., formed with Portuguese industrial group Start Lda. The first Porto plant is designed to produce around 8 tonnes of green methanol per day and to serve as a blueprint for a national network of additional facilities.
Portuguese Joint Venture and European Strategy
Through its 50/50 joint venture with Start Lda, HyOrc plans a national green methanol platform in Portugal. The initial project in the Porto area is structured around long-term offtake arrangements and project-finance-friendly contracts. Company disclosures describe a non-binding 10-year offtake commitment for the entire output of the planned pilot facility with a significant European renewable fuels producer, pending finalization of a definitive term sheet. HyOrc also reports interest from global energy trading groups, fuel distributors and shipping lines regarding larger-scale expansion phases and long-term offtake volumes.
The company presents this European strategy as a way to create a circular energy model in which local waste streams are converted into green methanol for maritime shipping and other hard-to-abate sectors. The Porto project is intended to function as a reference plant for additional facilities across Portugal, with the aim of supporting national energy security and export-oriented green fuel production.
Rail Decarbonization and Locomotive Retrofits
Beyond marine fuels, HyOrc is active in rail decarbonization. The company is working on retrofitting existing diesel-electric locomotives with alternative-fuel power systems based on its external-combustion and multi-fuel engine platform. HyOrc has described a collaboration with Zero-Emission Locomotive Technologies, LLC (ZELTECH) in the United States to develop hydrogen-, renewable natural gas- and natural-gas-capable retrofit solutions for freight and passenger rail.
HyOrc’s approach is intended to allow rail operators to replace onboard diesel power plants with multi-fuel systems while retaining existing locomotive platforms. The company notes that this is aimed at enabling operators to move away from diesel without wholesale fleet replacement or large-scale new infrastructure. Early integration work includes pilot projects such as a proposed application with Dreamstar Lines on the Los Angeles–San Francisco corridor, subject to regulatory approvals, permitting and operator scheduling.
Organic Rankine Cycle Turbines and Modular Power
HyOrc also develops Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbines and related external-combustion technology for distributed power generation and clean-fuel energy systems. The company has reported the successful factory acceptance test of a 500 kW ORC turbine for an international customer project in Turkey, carried out at a manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu, India. The test was witnessed and inspected by Bureau Veritas, which, according to HyOrc, confirmed stable performance and no non-conformities during speed and RPM testing across multiple nozzle configurations.
These ORC turbines form part of HyOrc’s broader technology platform, which the company states is being applied to distributed power, hydrogen- and natural-gas-ready locomotive retrofits, and clean-fuel systems. HyOrc has also referenced generator sets providing hydrogen and natural gas power as one of its three core decarbonization markets alongside green methanol and locomotive retrofits.
Capital Markets and Reporting Status
HyOrc trades under the ticker HYOR on the OTC market and has described itself as fully SEC-reporting, PCAOB audited and ISO certified. The company has announced the filing of a Form 10 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. HyOrc has characterized the effectiveness of its Form 10 as a milestone that makes it a fully reporting public company and supports its plans to migrate from the OTC Pink/OTCID market to the OTCQB Venture Market, with a longer-term goal of meeting listing requirements for the Nasdaq Capital Market.
In later updates, HyOrc reported that it completed and submitted documentation for an OTCQB uplisting application. The company presents enhanced reporting status and exchange migration as part of its broader capital markets strategy, intended to align with the progression of its green methanol and rail projects from development and testing toward commercial execution.
Business Model and Project Finance Orientation
Company communications emphasize a contract-backed, capital-light model focused on asset-level, non-recourse project finance. HyOrc describes its green methanol projects as structured around long-term offtake contracts with rated counterparties, providing revenue visibility that can support project financing. For locomotive retrofits, the company notes that projects are expected to be financed directly by freight operators, with revenue derived from retrofit programs and related systems.
HyOrc positions its technology and project portfolio as aligned with regulatory drivers such as FuelEU Maritime rules and emissions scrutiny in freight rail. Rather than relying primarily on subsidies, the company highlights demand from counterparties seeking compliant fuels and lower-emission transport solutions, and it points to non-binding commitments and letters of intent as indicators of commercial interest.
Technology Background and Development History
HyOrc states that the technologies it now owns and commercializes were developed and refined over a period of about a decade in waste-to-methanol and water plasma gasification systems. The company references R&D programs dating back to 2014, including pilot and demonstration plants in the UAE and India. It also notes that its technology team includes advanced combustion expertise originating from programs associated with the Indian Space Agency.
Through a reverse merger completed in 2024, HyOrc reports that it consolidated ownership of these technologies into the current corporate structure. The company’s narrative presents this as a transition from R&D and pilot-scale validation toward commercial plants and contract-backed projects in Europe, North America and other regions.
Corporate Positioning in Decarbonization Markets
Across its disclosures, HyOrc describes its platform as targeting three main decarbonization markets: green methanol for shipping and fuels, hydrogen and multi-fuel locomotive retrofits, and hydrogen and natural gas power generation. The company highlights interest from renewable fuel producers, global energy traders, shipping lines, and rail operators. It also references independent media coverage of its locomotive initiatives and regulatory attention on freight rail emissions as contextual factors for its rail-focused activities.
According to HyOrc, its near-term focus is on converting commercial frameworks such as memoranda of understanding, letters of intent and non-binding offtake commitments into executed contracts, while moving projects from testing and factory validation into on-site deployment. The company states that deployment timelines are subject to permitting, regulatory approvals and customer scheduling.
Share Structure Disclosure
In one of its public communications, HyOrc has disclosed that it has hundreds of millions of shares issued and outstanding, with a portion of those shares at the Depository Trust Company (DTC). This share structure information is presented as part of the company’s description to investors in the context of its clean-energy technology and project development activities.