{"id":162951,"date":"2025-05-13T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=162951"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:10:27","slug":"mission-zero-technologies-opens-new-direct-air-capture-plant-in-norfolk-to-turn-co2-into-limestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/mission-zero-technologies-opens-new-direct-air-capture-plant-in-norfolk-to-turn-co2-into-limestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission\u00a0Zero\u00a0Technologies opens\u00a0new\u00a0direct\u00a0air capture\u00a0plant\u00a0in\u00a0Norfolk to\u00a0turn\u00a0CO2\u00a0into\u00a0limestone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Today we opened our\u00a0direct air capture plant in Norfolk<\/a>, the world\u2019s first fully integrated DAC-to-building materials production demonstration. This marks the completion of the second of our three systems, following the launch of the\u00a0UK\u2019s first commercial DAC plant<\/a>\u00a0in late 2023, and the beginning of our deployment alongside\u00a0Deep Sky<\/a>, in Alberta, Canada, in 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning building materials into carbon sinks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In partnership with O.C.O Technology<\/a> (O.C.O) and the UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero<\/a> (DESNZ), our DAC solution is capable of recovering up to 250 tonnes of CO2<\/sub> per year from the atmosphere for direct use in O.C.O\u2019s Manufactured Limestone, which stores the CO2 <\/sub>in a stable form for thousands of years. Once tested, the resulting carbon-negative limestone can then be used widely to decarbonise essential building products, including bricks, concrete blocks, tiles, and slabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our tech provides O.C.O with an on-site source of reliable, sustainable carbon to complement their existing CO2<\/sub>supply, helping to protect against fluctuations in CO2 <\/sub>prices and availability. By seamlessly integrating with O.C.O\u2019s existing manufacturing process, it\u2019s a prime example of how embracing clean tech innovation doesn\u2019t have to mean completely overhauling established systems and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u200dAnother industrial application of Mission Zero\u2019s DAC<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This opening brings us to a total of two operational direct air capture systems in the UK, alongside our\u00a0Sheffield deployment<\/a>, which is pioneering the creation of jet fuel made from air. Our third system, in partnership with\u00a0Deep Sky Labs<\/a>\u00a0in Canada \u2014 another 250-tonne capacity system \u2014 is due to begin operating later this year, recovering CO\u2082 to be permanently stored underground. We’re delivering DAC solutions across multiple markets, for both carbon removal and utilisation, helping us to build a broad base of experience across different applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proof that ambitious policy making pays off<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As one of the first DAC startups in the UK to receive government funding via DESNZ \u2014 and one of the first of the government\u2019s greenhouse gas removal competition cohorts to deliver \u2014 this deployment marks a huge return for early investment in transformative climate technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s undeniable that carbon is an essential part of our modern economy, as is our need to move away from burning fossil fuels to obtain them. Through harnessing off-the-shelf components and established global supply chains, we\u2019ve been able to show how deployable DAC can be whilst also proving early commercial value \u2014 providing a solution that can deliver both carbon removal and carbon utilisation in one use case.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dr Nicholas Chadwick holding a handful of aggregate in front of a pile of aggregate \u00a9 Mission\u00a0Zero\u00a0Technologies<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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\u201cThanks to months of hard work alongside our partners in O.C.O and the UK Government, we\u2019re opening our second UK plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the construction sector being one of the largest contributors to global carbon emissions, the industry needs to rapidly rethink its carbon backbone – and creating sustainable building materials which double as carbon sinks is a great way to do just that.\u201d – Dr Nicholas Chadwick, co-founder and CEO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0pleased\u00a0to\u00a0work\u00a0alongside\u00a0Mission\u00a0Zero\u00a0in\u00a0enabling\u00a0this\u00a0exciting\u00a0technology.\u00a0Direct\u00a0air\u00a0capture\u00a0is\u00a0an\u00a0important\u00a0part\u00a0of\u00a0UK\u00a0and\u00a0global\u00a0efforts\u00a0to\u00a0reach\u00a0Net\u00a0Zero\u00a0and\u00a0beyond,\u00a0and\u00a0so\u00a0working\u00a0on\u00a0this\u00a0project\u00a0fits\u00a0with\u00a0our\u00a0core\u00a0values\u00a0of\u00a0delivering\u00a0carbon\u00a0capture\u00a0and\u00a0sustainability.\u201d – Graham Cooper, UK Managing Director for O.C.O<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we opened our\u00a0direct air capture plant in Norfolk, the world\u2019s first fully integrated DAC-to-building materials production demonstration. This marks the completion of the second of our three systems, following the launch of the\u00a0UK\u2019s first commercial DAC plant\u00a0in late 2023, and the beginning of our deployment alongside\u00a0Deep Sky, in Alberta, Canada, in 2024. Turning building […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":162955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Our second plant is enabling the use of atmospheric CO2 to create carbon-negative aggregates \u2014 a world-first for fully integrating DAC into building materials production","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[12447,10744,21452,10416,14095,11749,24032,10743],"supplier":[26309,26307,26308],"class_list":["post-162951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-buildingmaterials","tag-carboncapture","tag-carbonstorage","tag-circulareconomy","tag-cleantech","tag-construction","tag-limestone","tag-useco2","supplier-missionzero-technologies","supplier-oco-technology","supplier-uk-department-of-energy-security-and-net-zero-desnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162951"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=162951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}