Always one step ahead. Deployed globally.
Several more projects under development. Climeworks’ Direct Air Capture technology can be deployed anywhere there is low-carbon energy and storage available.
Megaton: Climeworks’ technology will be rolled out globally.
World-leading small to medium-scale Test Center in Zurich, Switzerland, opens.
Accelerating Generation 3 technology: large-scale Test Center in Basel, Switzerland.
Tens of thousands of tons: Mammoth in Hellisheidi, Iceland.
Thousands of tons: Orca in Hellisheidi, Iceland.
Proof of concept: Direct Air Capture & Storage, Arctic Fox in Hellisheidi, Iceland.
Hundreds of tons: Capricorn in Hinwil, Switzerland.
Kilograms: first demonstration unit, built in Zurich, Switzerland.
Grams: first prototype, built in Zurich, Switzerland.
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.
2030s
Globalization
Megaton: Climeworks’ technology will be rolled out globally.
2025
World-leading small to medium-scale Test Center in Zurich, Switzerland, opens.
2024
June
Accelerating Generation 3 technology: large-scale Test Center in Basel, Switzerland.
2024
May - Mammoth, our newest facility (in ramp-up)
Tens of thousands of tons: Mammoth in Hellisheidi, Iceland.
2021
World’s first and largest DAC+S plant
Thousands of tons: Orca in Hellisheidi, Iceland.
2017
October
Proof of concept: Direct Air Capture & Storage, Arctic Fox in Hellisheidi, Iceland.
2017
May - World’s first DAC plant
Hundreds of tons: Capricorn in Hinwil, Switzerland.
2014
First real prototype
Kilograms: first demonstration unit, built in Zurich, Switzerland.
2012
First demo prototype
Grams: first prototype, built in Zurich, Switzerland.
2009
Foundation
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.