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We are the only company with multiple real-world DAC projects in operation, globally.

Always one step ahead. 4 projects deployed.

Several more visionary projects under development. Our DAC technology can be deployed anywhere, at any scale.

Our journey to impact at scale 

We are on track. Every few years, a new facility in operation. Every one, a world's first. Each performing better than the last.

2025

World-leading Test Center in Zurich

2024 (June)

Accelerating Generation 3 technology: Openin our Test Center in Basel

2024 (May)
Tens of thousands of tons: Mammoth, Climeworks new and largest DAC+S plant, joins Orca in Iceland.

Tens of thousands of tons: Mammoth, Climeworks new and largest DAC+S plant, joins Orca in Iceland.


2021
Climeworkers in front of Orca

Thousands of tons: Orca, the world’s first and largest DAC+S plant, comes to life in Iceland.

2017 (October)

Proof of concept Direct Air Capture & Storage, Arctic Fox 

2017 (May)
Hundreds of tons: We launched the world’s first commercial DAC plant in Hinwil, Switzerland.

Hundreds of tons: We launched the world’s first commercial DAC plant in Hinwil, Switzerland.


2014
Climeworks' collector in London

Tons: Climeworks’ first small-scale DAC plant, a modular CO₂ collector, begins operation.

2012
Jan Wurzbacher and Christoph gebald

Kilograms: We reached demonstration scale with the first demo prototype.

2009

Milligrams: Climeworks is founded by Jan and Christoph, who capture CO₂ from the air under lab conditions at the Professorship of Renewable Energy Carriers (Prof. Steinfeld) of ETH Zurich.

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