C-Capture’s technology is a finalist in Glass Focus awards for its pioneering work in sustainability for the glass industry. The company’s innovative carbon capture trial in the glass manufacturing industry – in partnership with Glass Futures and Pilkington UK, part of NSG Group – is a finalist for the Sustainable Practice category of the Glass Focus Awards.
Working together, the companies achieved the UK’s first demonstration of a carbon capture technology within the mainstream commercial glass manufacturing industry, when C-Capture’s innovative technology was trialled at Pilkington UK’s site in St Helens. The trial forms part of C-Capture’s national project, ‘XLR8 CCS – Accelerating the Deployment of a Low-Cost Carbon Capture Solution for Hard-to-Abate Industries’. The project is testing the ability of the company’s carbon capture technology to remove CO2 from the flue gas emissions of three difficult-to-decarbonise industries including energy from waste, glass and cement manufacturing. Working with partners Wood, Heidelberg Materials, Glass Futures, and Pilkington UK part of NSG Group, carbon capture solvent compatibility units are being installed at sites across the UK.
The Glass Focus awards are organised by British Glass to recognise the very best initiatives in the glass sector. It is the second time that C-Capture’s technology has reached the final of a national award for sustainability in glass manufacturing with their XLR8CCS project also a G-Awards finalist.
Tom White, CEO, C-Capture, said: “I am delighted that C-Capture’s innovative carbon capture technology has reached the final of two national awards for the glass industry. Decarbonising glass manufacturing on a global scale is critical to reaching net zero and a key pillar of C-Capture’s mission. Our next generation technology can play in building a pivotal role in building a more sustainable future and is a potential game-changer for decarbonising industries that are hard to abate.”
The Glass Focus award winners will be revealed at the presentation evening on 21 November at Aspire, Leeds.
XLR8 CCS is funded with £1.7m from the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero’s £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. The funding is part of the £20 million Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) Innovation 2.0 programme aimed at accelerating the deployment of next-generation CCUS technology in the UK.
C-Capture’s proprietary carbon capture technology removes CO2 from industrial emissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. Based on fundamentally different chemistry to other current commercially available approaches, C-Capture’s solution does not rely on the use of amines, offering a safer and less expensive alternative.
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