Andrews remains president of MTR Carbon Capture, with Hans Wijmans serving as the president of MTR Industrial Separations.
“Brett Andrews has done an exceptional job at driving the progress of MTR Carbon Capture since joining us in February 2023, and we are delighted that he is taking on this additional role as chief executive officer of all of MTR,” said Colin Bailey, chairman of the MTR board.
Andrews has been in the membrane technology business for over 35 years. He is the former president and CEO of Hydranautics and vice president at Nitto Denko, where he managed the Nitto global membrane division. He holds degrees in chemistry and polymer technology from North London university and Slough College in the UK.
MTR recently delivered Polaris membranes for a carbon capture plant being installed at TSMC’s Zero Waste Manufacturing Center in Taichung, Taiwan. This MTR system will capture CO2 from a TSMC solvent waste incinerator and is scheduled to go online later this year. TSMC has also signed an MOU with the Taiwan Ministry of Environment to provide MTR Polaris carbon capture systems for two waste-to-energy plants that provide power to TSMC fabs starting in 2027.
Earlier this year, MTR signed a collaboration with Pall Corporation which aims to promote a highly modular, scalable and cost-effective integrated solution combining Pall’s advanced flue gas filtration and coalescer technology with MTR’s Polaris membrane system for carbon capture.
Having started on schedule in January 2025, a 150 tonnes per day (TPD) carbon capture plant utilizing MTR’s Polaris membranes has now completed over 2,000 hours of operation at Basin Electric’s Dry Fork Station coal-fired power plant. The largest membrane-based capture plant ever built, this facility is producing high-quality liquid CO2 at a 90% capture rate.
