Japan: US-based direct air capture (DAC) systems developer Aircapture has won a contract to install a DAC system at Aizawa Concrete Corporation’s Fukushima concrete research and development production hub in Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture. The system will inject captured CO₂ into wastewater from operations at the hub to produce calcium carbonate as a raw material for concrete production. The project will be Aircapture's first in Japan.
Aircapture founder and CEO Matt Atwood said "This partnership demonstrates how DAC can seamlessly integrate into existing manufacturing processes, while creating permanent carbon sequestration. We're proving that atmospheric CO₂ has become a valuable industrial feedstock."
As a signatory of the Japanese concrete sector’s A-Net Zero Initiative, Aizawa Concrete Corporation is committed to achieving net-zero CO₂ emissions by 2035.
