We move faster to scale Direct Air Capture.
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Huge news 🚀 Project Furu has been selected by the EU Innovation Fund! 🇪🇺🇳🇴
The @EU_Commission has selected Project Furu, our Direct Air Capture and storage plant in Norway, for a grant of up to €9.1 million from the EU Innovation Fund. Out of 77 projects selected across Europe, Project Furu is the first Direct Air Capture project the Fund has ever backed. We designed it as Europe’s reference case for modular DACCS.
▪️ Machines built on our production line in Brussels and deployed in CCB Energy’s Energy Park in Øygarden, Norway, with first capture in 2027
▪️ Powered by Norwegian hydropower, with the CO₂ to be stored permanently under the North Sea
▪️ A site designed to grow to more than 100,000 tonnes of removals per year, by adding the same standard containers as demand grows
▪️ Built for two markets: companies buying permanent removals today, and the EU’s proposed purchase of 250 million tonnes from 2031
Carbon removal credits from Project Furu are available now → offtakes@sirona.tech
Press release: sirona.tech/updates/eu-innov…
Sirona Technologies retweeted
🇪🇺🇳🇴 The EU is investing €313 million in three Norwegian net-zero projects through the Innovation Fund.
The projects include CO₂ transfer and storage by @akerbpasa and Höegh Evi, direct CO₂ air capture by @SironaTechCDR, and automated offshore wind manufacturing by @akersolutions🌱
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Super proud to have earned the @EU_Commission's trust. We will work relentlessly to show that Europe can build Direct Air Capture at industrial scale, and bring the cost down faster than anyone expects.
Huge news 🚀 Project Furu has been selected by the EU Innovation Fund! 🇪🇺🇳🇴
The @EU_Commission has selected Project Furu, our Direct Air Capture and storage plant in Norway, for a grant of up to €9.1 million from the EU Innovation Fund. Out of 77 projects selected across Europe, Project Furu is the first Direct Air Capture project the Fund has ever backed. We designed it as Europe’s reference case for modular DACCS.
▪️ Machines built on our production line in Brussels and deployed in CCB Energy’s Energy Park in Øygarden, Norway, with first capture in 2027
▪️ Powered by Norwegian hydropower, with the CO₂ to be stored permanently under the North Sea
▪️ A site designed to grow to more than 100,000 tonnes of removals per year, by adding the same standard containers as demand grows
▪️ Built for two markets: companies buying permanent removals today, and the EU’s proposed purchase of 250 million tonnes from 2031
Carbon removal credits from Project Furu are available now → offtakes@sirona.tech
Press release: sirona.tech/updates/eu-innov…
Massive inflection point for our industry 🚀🚀 The EU just proposed to include Direct Air Capture in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), and to make the EU the largest buyer of carbon removals in history.
Here's some context and what that means.
The ETS caps the CO2 emissions of Europe's heaviest-emitting industries. The cap shrinks every year, on a path to cutting net emissions by 90% in 2040 and then carbon neutrality by 2050. Companies that cut emissions faster than required can sell their allowances to companies moving slower.
Until now, companies in the ETS could only reduce. Today's proposal lets them also compensate, starting in 2031. This matters because these industries can't realistically get to zero: there will always be a long tail of residual emissions, and removing CO2 from the air is the only way to close that gap to net-zero. The EU is being selective about what counts. Only two methods qualify: Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS, what we build at Sirona Technologies) and Biogenic Carbon Capture and Storage (BioCCS). And the carbon must be captured in Europe. Our project in Norway qualifies.
The proposal also tackles the two hard problems.
🔷 The price gap. ETS allowances trade at ~80€/ton today. DACCS is expected to cost 300-600€/ton in 2030. The two will converge, but until then, who buys the more expensive credit? No early demand, no supply, no cost reduction. They addressed this by making the EU the buyer: the Commission will auction 250M new allowances to buy 250M tonnes of certified removals between 2031 and 2040, with the option to sell up to 10M more allowances on top to bridge the price gap. They would also likely buy a portfolio blending cheaper BioCCS with more expensive DACCS, like voluntary buyers already do today.
🔷 The supply gap. Very little eligible DACCS capacity is being built in Europe today. Our Norway project is one of the only public ones. The bottleneck to more supply is demand from the voluntary carbon market that can look fragile to infrastructure investors. They addressed this with early auctioning, so the Commission can build its budget and start contracting removals well before 2031.
What happens next: the proposal goes through the Council and Parliament, aiming for a deal in early 2027. Integration is proposed to start in 2031, but the demand will be felt much sooner. And this is only step one: the Commission will assess by 2034 whether emitters can buy removals directly. The 250 million tonnes is the floor, not the ceiling.
Why this matters so much for us: it changes the nature of DAC demand from voluntary to compliance, backed by EU law. That is what will make our capture facilities financeable. Even at today's ~€80/ton allowance price, this is a €20B buyer arriving in a market with almost no eligible supply, and we're building some of the only capacity that qualifies. We've been preparing for this moment, and we're ready for it 🚀🚀
Link to the full proposal, search for Article 9c and Domestic permanent carbon removals: climate.ec.europa.eu/documen…
A surprising benefit of modular technology is that you can bring it to the conference 👀👀
Who can say he made a selfie in Brussels in front of a modular Direct Air Capture installation (DAC). This one is of @SironaTechCDR, can store currently 400 ton of CO2 per year, is relying of course on clean power.
This type of equipment is scalable in car manufacture size
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Who can say he made a selfie in Brussels in front of a modular Direct Air Capture installation (DAC). This one is of @SironaTechCDR, can store currently 400 ton of CO2 per year, is relying of course on clean power.
This type of equipment is scalable in car manufacture size
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"Carbon will need to be removed from the atmosphere."
Otto Gunderson explores the potential of modular direct air capture.
Read the full story to see how.
@SironaTechCDR @skytreeco2 @OctaviaCarbon
theenergypioneer.com/the-mod…
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New podcast: Hard tech startups die because they don't iterate quickly enough. They are left building big plants with technology that isn't there yet.
I sat down with @HugoRauch_Tech on the New Wave podcast to discuss why DAC is an industrial certainty and how we're building for this massive market.
Coming from @tesla, I saw that the only real moat is your speed of iteration. At @SironaTechCDR, we apply software speed to Direct Air Capture. We're just under three years old and we're already building our 7th iteration. If you aren't shipping, you aren't learning.
A few of the tactical points we covered:
Massive market: Even if we reduce emissions by 75%, we'll need to compensate for a massive 10 billion tons of residual emissions. To get to net-zero, there is no way around it. It is inevitable.
Modular Execution: Most DAC companies build huge monolithic plants. We ship containers. By building modular units, we can iterate every six months instead of every six years.
Sorbent Agnostic: The best filter material for DAC hasn't been invented yet. We build hardware that is solid-sorbent-agnostic so we can improve our sorbent over time and even swap the filters without rebuilding the infrastructure.
Electron Arbitrage: We don’t fight data centers for power. Since CO2 is everywhere, we just go and find places where the energy is the cleanest and the cheapest.
Full conversation links in the replies.
The market demand is there and you'll see more big announcements coming from us here 👀
We’re done with DAC science experiments. We’ve already deployed our first commercial site. Now it’s just a game of industrial execution.
It's time to look back at 2025, and we're super proud of what the team accomplished:
✅ Launched our pilot plant in Kenya
→ from company inception to deployment in 22 months
→ making us the fastest DAC company to deploy a pilot plant
✅ Built our first commercial DAC machine
→ from drawing to first run in 6 months
✅ Started operations at Project Moringa
→ from company inception to deployment in 34 months
→ making us the fastest DAC company to deploy a commercial plant
✅ Reduced CAPEX by 4x
✅ Reduced sorbent costs by 3x
✅ Closed multi-year offtakes with leading buyers
→ future announcements coming soon 👀
→ we’re now sold out in 2026
We now shift our focus from deployment to delivery, with our first certified tons coming soon 💥
Thanks to everyone following, supporting, and challenging us along the way!
Happy holidays! 💫
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IMC buys DAC credits from @SironaTechCDR Jacaranda project in Kenya—backing modular, assembly-line DAC + basalt mineralization. Big win for durable CDR. 🌍⚡ shorturl.at/rrgma
Master Plan, Chapter 4: Modular technology deployed to scalable plants
Most industries scale by building ever-larger plants on-site. We’re taking a different path.
We build modular, plug-and-play DAC units, then deploy many of them side by side to reach scale.
→ Each unit is container-sized and made from off-the-shelf components: lower cost, shorter lead times, agile supply chains.
→ Because each container is an independent unit, we can ship updates fast, and cut costs through continuous iteration.
→ Modules are shipped and installed with minimal on-site work. We can start small, derisk the technology and unlock project finance, then scale plants as large as needed.
How we build matters.
Read Chapter 4 of our Master Plan → sirona.tech/master-plan#modu…
Master Plan, Chapter 3: Sorbent-agnostic to ride massive cost reductions
At the heart of DAC is the solid sorbent: the filter that captures CO₂. There are many ways to build one (amines, zeolites, MOFs), each with their own trade-offs.
At Sirona, we develop and tune our own sorbents across multiple classes, improving stability, capacity, and regeneration efficiency. But instead of locking ourselves into one chemistry, our machines stay sorbent-agnostic: they can run a wide range of materials, and we can swap in better ones as we improve our sorbent.
That flexibility lets us move faster, integrating each new generation of sorbent as we develop it, without redesigning the whole system.
We already reduced our sorbent cost by 3x over the last 12 months and see more coming down the line. R&D is moving fast, and our hardware is built to keep up.
Read the third chapter of our Master Plan → sirona.tech/master-plan#sorb…
Say hello to Project Moringa — our latest project is coming to life 🚀
After months of intense work, Project Moringa is now taking shape in the Middle East. This is our most advanced site yet.
Huge congrats to the team that has been moving at breakneck speed, delivering hardware in extreme heat and navigating a complex logistics puzzle, even shipping through the Red Sea to save precious weeks on schedule.
We’re now commissioning our initial 300-ton-per-year unit to validate our technology in real-world conditions, the first step toward scaling to 1,800 tons per year in 2026. This project will demonstrate just how quickly we can scale using our modular, plug-and-play technology.
A major milestone as we prepare to deliver our first certified CO₂ removal credits.
⚡ Companies looking to secure near-term, high-integrity carbon removal credits: now’s the time to reach out.
Over the coming weeks, we’ll share updates as we hit key milestones.
Keep your eyes peeled 👀
Master Plan, Chapter 2: Solid sorbents have the clearest path to rapid cost decrease
Direct Air Capture only scales if costs fall fast. Today most systems run $500–$1,000 per ton. To make gigaton removal possible, we need $100–$200.
At Sirona we asked ourselves: which technology gets us there quickest?
→ First, physics: what’s the theoretical cost floor? Rule out what will always be too expensive.
→ Second, learning rate: how fast does each technology improve as you build more of it? (Think solar panels: what mattered wasn’t just cost at launch, but how fast the price fell with scale.)
Two things drive steep learning curves: fewer moving parts and the ability to build in a factory instead of on-site. Simpler systems, faster iteration.
That’s why we chose solid sorbents with temperature-vacuum swing adsorption. Our technology already works, it's simple, modular, and can be mass-produced. Starting costs may be higher than some alternatives, but the learning curve is steeper, and that’s what wins over time.
Read the second chapter of our Master Plan → sirona.tech/master-plan#soli…
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By adding @SironaTechCDR Technologies to our directory of CDR companies, cdr-shops.com, today, we now have four Direct Air Capture (DAC) companies listed (alongside @Climeworks, @OctaviaCarbon, and @heirloomcarbon).
We have built this website for people looking for carbon removal companies that allow for easy and quick purchase of CDR credits even in small volumes (e.g. to offset flights), straightforward with a few clicks. To push the CDR market we need to build these offerings first, only then the smaller buyers will come.
If you know of online CDR shops that we are missing, please let us know!
Today, we publish our Master Plan.
It lays out how we're becoming the fastest company in the world to reach low-cost, large-scale Direct Air Capture.
Core ideas below, and details here → sirona.tech/master-plan
We started executing on this plan in 2023. Since then, we've deployed a pilot, are building commercial plants in multiple countries, and will deliver our first certified carbon credits in the coming months. We're already seeing the results in terms cost as well: in the past year alone, we’ve reduced container capex by 4x and sorbent costs by 3x.
While the team builds, we're taking a moment to share how we got here, and where we're going next.
Read the Master Plan → sirona.tech/master-plan