CCU News

27 August 2026

How cement plants can remove CO₂ from the atmosphere

The production of cement ranks as one of the world’s largest industrial sources of CO₂. A new study now shows how cement production could in future be used to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere – based on a technology utilising lime

27 August 2026

Wie Zementwerke der Atmosphäre CO₂ entziehen können

Die Herstellung von Zement gehört weltweit zu den grössten industriellen CO₂-Verursachern. Eine neue Studie zeigt nun, wie sich die Zementproduktion künftig nutzen liesse, um CO₂ aus der Atmosphäre zu entfernen. Grundlage dafür ist eine Technologie auf der Basis von Kalk

27 August 2026

China repurposing pharma mega-factories to make novel foods, GFI report reveals

Some major manufacturers to explore novel foods by leveraging their existing fermentation capacity to produce mycoprotein, yeast proteins, and precision-fermented fats

27 August 2026

Mitsubishi Electric develops CCU disaster-resilience evaluation with University of Tokyo

Method supports municipal and corporate CCU adoption as Japan pursues decarbonization

26 August 2026

Pilot-scale production of leucine from CO2

The fed-batch bioprocess for leucine production with M. marburgensis mutant strains in bioreactors has proven to be scalable to 150 L pilot-plant scale without substantial losses in leucine quality

24 August 2026

Opinion: Europe’s climate-elephant in the room: What to do with left-over emissions when we get to net zero?

If we treat some emissions as “unavoidable” too early, without properly examining whether they truly are, we risk following a more costly and less efficient path to climate neutrality

21 August 2026

Green Lime: Reducing Carbon Emissions in the Construction Materials Industry

A membrane reactor that enables climate-neutral lime production while also recovering new raw materials, is being developed by Fraunhofer-IKTS-researchers

21 August 2026

Grüner Kalk: CO2-Emissionen in der Baustoffindustrie senken

Ein Membranreaktor, der eine klimaneutrale Kalkproduktion ermöglicht und gleichzeitig neue Rohstoffe schafft, wird von Fraunhofer-IKTS-Forschenden entwickelt

18 August 2026

KIST team converts captured carbon dioxide directly into formic acid without purification

New electrochemical process turns triethylamine-based CO2 capture solution into 98% pure formic acid at lower cost and emissions

13 August 2026

Hitachi, MOL, and JAL Sign MOU to Conduct Japan’s First Pilot Test of Carbon Dioxide Removal Technology on Kume Island, Okinawa

Direct Ocean Capture (DOC): a technology for recovering CO2 directly from the ocean

12 August 2026

Transforming carbon dioxide into a new kind of recyclable plastics

CSU and Northwestern University researchers developed a closed-loop platform for producing a class of new materials from inexpensive carbon dioxide

12 August 2026

New technology could turn dirty factory exhaust directly into useful fuel

Researchers from the Université de Montpellier and Adelaide University have developed a special organic liquid to efficiently convert CO₂ from industrial emissions into carbon monoxide (CO), a key building block used to manufacture fuels and chemicals

04 August 2026

Discover How CO₂ from Wastewater Can Become Sustainable Packaging

HICCUPS Seminar on 23 September 2026, 10-12:15 CET in Amsterdam

03 August 2026

The Age of Fossil Fuels Must Come to an End – Renewable Energy and Renewable Carbon Will Take the Lead

Fossil energy use harms the climate, is finite and unreliable, creates dangerous dependencies, and leads to unpredictable price fluctuations. Also, it has no future

03 August 2026

Das Zeitalter der fossilen Rohstoffe muss enden – erneuerbare Energien und erneuerbarer Kohlenstoff übernehmen die Führung

Die Nutzung fossiler Rohstoffe schadet dem Klima, ist endlich und unsicher, schafft gefährliche Abhängigkeiten und führt zu unvorhersehbaren Preisschwankungen. Außerdem hat sie keine Zukunft

03 August 2026

Topsoe and Sasol bring advanced SAF technology to Allied Biofuels’ landmark project in Uzbekistan

High-quality SAF from a variety of feedstocks – including biomass, green hydrogen and carbon dioxide – creating a highly flexible and integrated production pathway

30 July 2026

Grundlagen für Carbon Farming: Bundeslandwirtschaftsministerium fördert drei neue Zertifizierungsprojekte

Parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Englhardt-Kopf überreichte Zuwendungsbescheide auf CRCF-Tagung

30 July 2026

A major milestone on the road to the PYROCO2 demonstrator

EU-funded hydrogen and CO2-to-acetone demo due online in late 2026

29 July 2026

Bioforcetech Selected by Carbontech Development Intiative

Bridge Carbontech award funds the final piece of BFT's supply chain connecting New York's wastewater and construction sectors

29 July 2026

Vacancy-Guided Dual Sites Boost Sunlight-Driven Conversion of CO2 into Ethylene

Professor Lei Ge and his team at China University of Petroleum developed a zinc-doped photocatalyst, that exploits defect engineering in tandem with dual-site catalysis to dramatically enhance the efficiency of CO2 reduction into ethylene