Northstar Clean Technologies to expand to Baltimore

Northstar Clean Technologies Inc., headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, has entered into a non-binding agreement to secure a lease in Baltimore as the location for its first U.S. commercial facility.

Through a third-party agent, Northstar will move to secure a 10-year lease, which includes three separate five-year renewal options. The lease will commence July 1, 2026, with rent commencing Oct. 1, 2026. The site includes an existing 54,000 square foot building with an additional 3 acres for outside storage and other operational considerations.

According to Northstar, the location is expected to help the company achieve several operational and strategic objectives. The size of the building, the company says, aims to avoid complexities associated with constructing a building and a Northstar facility concurrently. In addition, Baltimore and its surrounding area are a region high on Northstar’s economic return target list supported by tipping fees, asphalt prices and access to shingle supply.

The region also is a key area for Northstar’s strategic partner, Tamko Building Products LLC. Tamko owns and operates an asphalt shingle production facility 50 miles from Baltimore, located in Frederick, Maryland. The companies previously announced they had entered into an agreement where Tamko will purchase the majority of the asphalt produced from the first four U.S. facilities constructed and operated by Northstar.

Northstar also has initiated permitting activities and anticipates the commencement of operations at the facility in the second half of 2027.

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“We are coming off a transformational year in which we completed construction of our Calgary facility and began ramping up operations. Announcing Baltimore as the location for our first U.S. facility is an excellent way to start the new year and a major step in our U.S. expansion and plans to supply Tamko’s Frederick, Maryland, facility,” Aidan Mills, president and CEO of Northstar, says. “This initial project represents our first entry into the U.S. market and reflects growing interest from U.S.-based strategic partners and investors who see the U.S. market as an important long-term opportunity in our scalable, circular, asphalt shingle reprocessing solution.”