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Nantes (France) and Munich (Germany), 20 January 2025, 7:30 AM: Lhyfe (Euronext: LHYFE), a pioneering producer and supplier of green and renewable hydrogen for industry and mobility, and Atmen, an integrated compliance automation platform, have decided to collaborate to set a new standard of excellence in carbon footprint traceability and transparency within the hydrogen and Power-to-X (PtX) sectors.
Lhyfe, on the Path to RFNBO* Certification
Since its creation, Lhyfe has strived to meet the highest ecological standards for its hydrogen. It had been eagerly awaiting the approval by the European Commission of the first “RFNBO” (Renewable Fuel of Non-Biological Origin) certification schemes for renewable hydrogen. Following their publication in December 2024, Lhyfe has begun the necessary steps to obtain RFNBO certification for its production.
* The RFNBO certification confirms that hydrogen is produced sustainably (via water electrolysis) and from 100% renewable electricity. It includes a comprehensive carbon footprint assessment of this production process. The certification ensures compliance with the strict criteria defined by the European Union and adherence to the highest environmental standards, thereby strengthening trust among partners, clients, and investors.
With a commitment to maximum transparency and its rapid expansion in multiple European countries, Lhyfe sought to exceed current regulations even before obtaining its RFNBO certification. Thanks to its partnership with Atmen, Lhyfe now has a robust traceability system with unprecedented precision and granularity.
Each delivery of Lhyfe's green hydrogen can now be accompanied by a Digital Product Passport—an innovation that provides a complete and precise description of the carbon footprint of the hydrogen produced, including detailed information:
This collaboration starts with the production unit in Bouin (Vendée, France) and will be extended to other Lhyfe sites.
The company has also initiated steps to obtain RFNBO certification for hydrogen produced at its various sites. Once achieved, the digital passports will include the “RFNBO-compliant” label.
This partnership delivers unparalleled traceability and compliance for Lhyfe’s green hydrogen, equipping clients with the tools needed to align with their emission and decarbonisation goals transparently.
By combining Lhyfe’s expertise in renewable hydrogen production and Atmen’s advanced automation software, this partnership simplifies compliance with strict sustainability regulations such as RFNBO.
“Atmen is thrilled to partner with Lhyfe, one of the most innovative and fastest-growing hydrogen producers in Europe,” said Flore de Durfort, CEO of Atmen. “Together, we are setting a new standard in traceability, enabling the hydrogen sector to meet the strictest sustainability requirements with precision and transparency.”
“Our collaboration with Atmen is a major step in realising our commitment to transparency for our clients, both in terms of sustainability and traceability,” commented Antoine Hamon, Chief Operations Officer at Lhyfe. “With Digital Product Passports, we are enhancing trust in the sustainability of our hydrogen. We invite the sector to align with this practice, which will help develop the industry with the same spirit of trust.”
Lhyfe is a European group devoted to energy transition, and a producer and supplier of green and renewable hydrogen. Its production sites and portfolio of projects seek to provide access to green and renewable hydrogen in industrial quantities, and enable the creation of a virtuous energy model capable of decarbonising entire sectors of industry and transport.
In 2021, Lhyfe inaugurated the first industrial-scale green hydrogen production plant in the world to be interconnected with a wind farm. In 2022, it inaugurated the first offshore green hydrogen production pilot platform in the world.
In 2023, it inaugurated two new sites, and currently has several sites under construction or expansion across Europe.
Lhyfe is represented in 12 European countries and had 200 staff at the end of June 2024. The company is listed on the Euronext market in Paris (ISIN: FR0014009YQ1 – LHYFE). Lhyfe.com
Atmen simplifies and automates green certification for energy-intensive industries through its integrated compliance platform. Atmen enables producers to track renewable energy usage, carbon intensity, and supply chain sustainability with unparalleled precision. By automating complex workflows related to green compliance, Atmen helps industries meet regulatory requirements efficiently and transparently.
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The funding will expand Atmen’s platform, helping industrial producers certify product origins and ensure supply chain integrity.
Munich, Germany – May 03, 2025 - Atmen (atmen.co), the company automating sustainability certification for industry, today announced a €5M seed funding round, led by Project A. Existing investors Revent and Vireo Ventures also participated, alongside notable angel investors including former TÜV SUD CEO Axel Stepken, Former CEO and serial Board member in tech environments including ThyssenKrupp, Martina Merz, and serial founder Christian Vollmann, an early investor in Trivago and SumUp. This brings Atmen’s total funding to €6.3M.
In an era of fierce global competition, European industrial companies face a dual challenge: creating a market advantage through sustainability leadership while ensuring global competitiveness.
The critical need for Atmen's solution becomes clear when examining Europe's fertiliser supply chain. Ammonia, an essential component for food security across the continent, is a prime example. While the EU imported approximately 25% of its fertilisers from Russia in 2024, valued at over €2.2 billion, the transition to low-carbon ammonia faces a fundamental verification challenge. Since a molecule of ammonia looks identical regardless of production method, this transition requires robust certification systems that can process over 70,000 data points annually to verify product origins and environmental credentials. This is precisely where Atmen comes in.
While traditional approaches rely on periodic sampling and yearly estimates, Atmen’s platform ingests granular, real-time operational data directly from industrial processes. This integration into industrial workflows streamlines compliance for energy-intensive products like hydrogen and renewable fuels, enabling companies to prove product composition and material origins with unprecedented certainty. By digitising certification processes, Atmen enhances traceability while reducing complexity, a crucial advantage for European industry navigating the energy transition.
Atmen was founded in January 2023 by Flore de Durfort, Quentin Cangelosi, and Erika Degoute, who met working at the renowned energy company E.ON. They identified a critical problem: despite its growing importance for market access, product certification still relied on outdated, manual processes - error-prone paperwork and scattered spreadsheets that couldn't handle today's complex supply chains and data requirements.
The team combines energy market expertise with robust technical capabilities. Atmen’s flagship product, 'Automate,' is already in use across industrial sites in 9 countries and working with five leading certification bodies, including TÜV NORD.
As Europe navigates complex trade tensions with the US, energy dependency on Russia, and manufacturing competition from China, traditional certification methods are failing due to their paper-based, labour-intensive processes. Cross-border transactions now require detailed certification of product origins and sustainability credentials, overwhelming systems designed for simpler supply networks. Atmen connects everyone involved, from producers and traders to auditors and certification labels, in a single system. This replaces scattered spreadsheets and siloed audits with continuous data monitoring and tracking tools that validate each product’s specifications and origins. Atmen’s approach also aligns with the EU Clean Industrial Deal, which outlines concrete actions to turn decarbonisation into a driver of growth for European industries.
With this €5 million funding, Atmen plans to expand beyond hydrogen, renewable and low-carbon fuels to certify a wider range of energy-intensive goods, including steel, chemicals, and fertilisers - sectors where proving product characteristics is essential for market access and decarbonisation. The team will also strengthen connections with regulators and certification schemes while launching tools that help companies track environmental impact and meet evolving regulations, which are increasing scrutiny on product sustainability claims.
As supply chains face growing pressure from geopolitical shifts and energy transitions, reliable product certification becomes essential for European businesses. Atmen's platform builds trust in product claims by raising the standard from periodic sampling to comprehensive data analysis - all while simplifying the process for manufacturers.
The platform helps companies navigate certification requirements, optimising their supply chains for both compliance and commercial goals. Atmen achieves this through advanced modelling tools that clarify decision-making and provide supply chain visibility.
Atmen is already working with industry leaders, including Lhyfe, Schneider Electric, and Energy & Regulation Partners. The team, currently at 11 employees, will expand to support the company's ambitious growth trajectory.
"European industries need reliable ways to verify products across borders and supply chains," says Flore de Durfort, CEO and co-founder of Atmen. "We're simplifying and scaling product certification, turning a traditional bottleneck into a competitive advantage. Our platform acts as a data infrastructure layer on top of industrial supply chains, processing complete operational datasets while reducing complexity. With Europe’s limited access to fossil fuels, the transition to renewable energy requires stronger systems to verify clean energy products - that’s precisely what we’re building.”
"In a world where industrial competitiveness depends on traceable, low-carbon supply chains, Atmen is building the digital backbone that turns complex production inputs into compliant, market- and export-ready products," says Mila Cramer, Principal at Project A.
About Atmen
Atmen (atmen.co) is a regulatory technology company providing the data infrastructure that powers trusted certification of industrial products. Atmen focuses on automating certification and enabling large-scale, verifiable supply chain transparency across energy-intensive industries. Founded in January 2023 by energy and regulation experts Flore de Durfort, Quentin Cangelosi, and Erika Degoute, Atmen has raised €6.3M to date to build technology that certifies industrial goods, starting with clean fuels. Headquartered in Munich, the company's platform is deployed across industrial sites in 9 countries, automating certification workflows and enabling verifiable proof of product attributes throughout the supply chain.
About Project A
Project A (project-a.com) is one of the leading early-stage tech investors in Europe with offices in Berlin and London. In addition to $1bn assets under management, Project A commands the largest VC platform team in Europe: 100 functional experts exclusively support the portfolio companies in key areas of growth such as software engineering, business intelligence, data engineering, recruiting, sales and marketing. The venture capital firm was founded in 2012 and has backed more than 120 startups. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, Black Semiconductor, Quantum Systems and sennder.
Automating Compliance for a Seamless Certification Process
Rotterdam, Netherlands – May 27, 2025 – Atmen and CertifHy today announced a strategic partnership, signed during last week's World Hydrogen Summit in Rotterdam, which names Atmen as the first officially recognised Compliance Technology Provider (CTP) for the CertifHy EU RFNBO Voluntary Scheme. This collaboration seeks to establish a streamlined digital infrastructure for producers to operationalize, document, and demonstrate compliance efficiently.
Atmen’s compliance platform simplifies and digitizes the certification process, ensuring economic operators can efficiently meet regulatory requirements. By integrating live compliance modeling, document generation, and emissions tracking, the platform eliminates complexity and allows operators to focus on production while staying aligned with evolving regulations. As a designated CTP, Atmen ensures full compatibility with the CertifHy EU RFNBO Voluntary Scheme, making compliance more transparent and accessible.
CertifHy, founded in 2014, is a frontrunner in the certification of renewable hydrogen and e-fuels. It operates schemes like the EU RFNBO Voluntary Scheme to help economic operators demonstrate compliance with the EU’s strict sustainability rules regarding the origin of renewable electricity. By formally recognising Atmen as a CTP, CertifHy enables a more efficient certification pathway that eliminates bottlenecks and improves communication between economic operators, certification bodies, and regulators.
“Operators will see major bottlenecks disappear,” said Flore de Durfort, CEO and Co-Founder of Atmen. “With this partnership, we create a clear communication chain and a trusted source of interpretation. Atmen and CertifHy share a vision of bringing certification into a more user- and system-friendly practice.”
Atmen’s platform is designed for neutrality, ensuring seamless integration across multiple certification schemes. While its recognition as a CTP by CertifHy underscores its alignment with EU RFNBO requirements, its broader interoperability potential offers economic operators a unified system for managing compliance across evolving sustainability frameworks.
The collaboration is already in motion, addressing key compliance questions such as carbon input validation, virtual PPA eligibility, and downstream emissions reporting. Atmen and CertifHy will continue refining the integration of certification processes into the Atmen platform, ensuring alignment with future regulatory updates and industry needs.
“Recognising Atmen as a CTP allows us to streamline how market participants interact with our scheme,” said Matthieu Boisson, Managing Director at CertifHy. “Digital infrastructure is essential for scaling certification without sacrificing rigour, and this partnership gives us both speed and consistency.”
About CertifHy: Founded in 2014, CertifHy is a frontrunner in the realm of renewable hydrogen and e-fuels’ certification, providing a comprehensive suite of tools to empower stakeholders engaged in the energy transition. It operates two schemes — the CertifHy EU Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin (RFNBO) Voluntary Scheme and the CertifHy Non-Governmental Certificate (NGC) Scheme — which aim to verify the sustainability and origin of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and its derivatives. CertifHy also offers precertification, which familiarizes companies with the data collection and documentation processes required for official certification, and an in-house e-learning platform — CertifHy Academy — to equip Economic Operators and Certification Bodies with the expertise needed to navigate the complex landscape of hydrogen certification. It fosters collaboration through its Stakeholder Platform, which invites representatives of the industry, government, and academia to shape the future development of hydrogen certification systems. Together, CertifHy’s robust certification schemes and knowledge-building resources pave the way for a cleaner energy future.
About Atmen: Atmen (atmen.co) is a regulatory technology company providing the data infrastructure that powers trusted certification of industrial products. Atmen focuses on automating certification and enabling large-scale, verifiable supply chain transparency across energy-intensive industries.
Founded in January 2023 by energy and regulation experts Flore de Durfort, Quentin Cangelosi and Erika Degoute, Atmen builds technology that ingests granular operational data to enable the certification of industrial goods, starting with clean gases and fuels. Headquartered in Munich, the company's platform is deployed across industrial sites in 9 countries, automating certification workflows and enabling verifiable proof of product attributes throughout the supply chain.
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