EcoLive

EcoLive is an eco-conglomerate operating in Russian, Asian and European markets. It is focused on fast growing sectors in the emerging low carbon economy and holds alternative energy and clean-tech industrial assets:
- solar energy;
- sustainable forestry and bio-mass;
- advanced materials.
As of 2007 EcoLive and its portfolio companies employ 12,000 people.

EcoLive transforms industrial businesses with a conventional role in the traditional economy into manufacturing businesses of high value-added products in the environmental sector.
EcoLive's approach is to acquire traditional industrial assets with environmental potential. Through the introduction of new technology, management expertise and fresh market orientation, EcoLive creates alternative value chains in the new low carbon economy for these businesses. EcoLive companies emerge as industrial-scale manufacturers of commodities and products vital to such industries as non-fossil fuel energy and the emerging clean-tech sector.

Between 2003 and 2005, EcoLive developed positions in traditional industries with unrealised environmental potential, e.g. chemical manufacturing and forest harvesting.
From 2005 to 2008, EcoLive has been reorienting these conventional assets to low carbon businesses, e.g. polysilicon photovoltaic production, 1st generation biofuels (pellets, agro-pellets, charcoal) and advanced material development, while the management teams have secured customer bases for their high volume products.
Looking ahead, from 2009 to 2011 EcoLive will develop its capabilities in 2nd generation biofuels, e.g. biomass to liquid (BTL), thinfilm and other non-conventional photovoltaic technologies, and in silicon-based and carbon-based advanced materials, such as silicon carbide and carbon fibres.