Hexagon Agility, a business of Hexagon Composites and a global specialist in high-pressure composite cylinder technology, has delivered its 6,000th carbon fiber composite gas distribution cylinder to Processkontroll Green Technology.
This milestone marks a major achievement in a 17-year partnership between two Nordic clean-tech pioneers - Sweden's Processkontroll Green Technology and Norway's Hexagon Agility - who joined forces in 2009 to drive the energy transition. It underscores the accelerating deployment of advanced composite pressure vessels across the Nordic clean energy ecosystem, where lightweight, corrosion-resistant carbon fiber cylinders are enabling safer and more efficient storage and transportation of renewable gases.
Expanding Virtual Pipelines Across the Nordics
Since 2009, this partnership has driven the expansion of biomethane and hydrogen infrastructure across the Nordic region, strengthening sustainability and energy security for industries and communities without access to pipeline gas.
Bo Axelsson, CEO at Processkontroll Green Technology, said Sweden's limited gas pipeline infrastructure forced the company to innovate early. With less than 10% of the country connected to a gas grid, mobile solutions had to be developed from the ground up, and the partnership with Hexagon Agility has been instrumental in scaling this model across the Nordics, including Europe's largest biomethane filling station delivered in 2025.
Over 17 years, this technology has powered bus fleets in Stockholm, Oslo and all over Scandinavia, fueled industrial operations including food processing and car manufacturing, and even helped community institutions from churches to schools replace propane or diesel with biomethane.
The customer receiving the biomethane distribution module containing the 6,000th cylinder is Redo Biosolutions, a Norwegian energy company owned by Air Liquide and Skagerak Energi AS.
Svein-Morten Hansen, Technical and Project Manager at Redo Biosolutions, said the company's fleet has grown to around 20 containers since purchasing its first unit in 2016, relying on Processkontroll's mobile gas containers daily to transport biomethane, supporting vehicle fueling stations, biomethane production sites, and grid injection points in both Norway and Sweden.
Eric Bippus, Chief Commercial Officer at Hexagon Agility, said that with 6,000 cylinders now in operation, the partnership has effectively built the backbone for large scale biomethane distribution across the Nordic region, rooted in trust, innovation, and shared purpose since 2009.
This 6,000th cylinder milestone comes amid accelerating demand for biomethane in Northern Europe. In the first 17 years of this partnership, Hexagon supplied approximately 5,500 cylinders to Processkontroll; but as biomethane adoption rises, approximately one thousand cylinders are now set to be delivered within a 12 month timeframe.
Impact Highlights
In the Nordics, Processkontroll now counts 300+ green gas installations, including 200+ public biomethane filling stations and 50+ biomethane bus depots supplied by mobile modules. Hexagon Agility, globally, has enabled 100,000+ gas-powered vehicles, largely powered by biomethane, and has 2,500+ Mobile Pipeline gas distribution modules in operation.
Since 2009, over the lifetime of this partnership, biomethane has grown from small pilot projects into a core part of the Nordic energy system. Across Sweden, Norway, and Finland, biomethane production has grown more than fivefold - from under 0.5 TWh to over 2.3 TWh. By using domestic waste resources to create renewable energy, biomethane is now actively reducing Nordic countries' dependence on imported fossil fuels and enabling sustainable energy independence.
Environmentally, the impact of this partnership is as significant. In many cases, biomethane delivers negative CO2 emissions - helping move beyond net zero and actively contribute to carbon reductions. Together, the partnership's mobile gas storage solutions in the Nordic region are contributing to the reduction of more than 200,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually, equivalent to approximately 0.5% of Sweden's total emissions each year.
Source: Hexagon
