Three teams receive funding from the Federal Agency for Leapfrog Innovations for the further development of innovative technologies for the permanent storage of CO2 

Freiberg, May 2023 - With its innovative plasma catalysis technology, the Leipzig-based company endDyne has been selected for the second stage of the "Carbon-to-Value" challenge by an international jury from the German Federal Agency for Leapfrog Innovations SPRIND. The aim of this challenge, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is to achieve a breakthrough in the use of CO2 from the air in new products in order to make the fight against climate change economically viable. 

"The support from the Federal Agency for Leapfrog Innovations is an important milestone for enaDyne on the way to a unique offering for decarbonization and defossilization. This is because the enaDyne technology enables a sustainable and, above all, profitable circular economy that can largely avoid the use of fossil hydrocarbons in the chemical industry. Compared to many other technologies, this not only alleviates the symptoms of climate change, but also solves the underlying problems in the long term," explains enaDyne founder Philipp Hahn.

"To limit a serious increase in the global average temperature, it is not enough to avoid and reduce future CO2 emissions. We also need to remove a large amount of CO2 from the atmosphere," explained Jano Costard, Challenge Officer at SPRIND. "With this innovation competition, we want to help new processes achieve a technical and commercial breakthrough that remove CO2 from the atmosphere and then store it in valuable products in the long term."

In addition to enadyne, carbo Culture and MacroCarbon were selected for further funding. SPRIND supports the three teams in the further development of their technologies and commercialization of their products not only financially, but also with intensive coaching and contacts to private investors. This is intended to ensure that the young companies also receive follow-up financing for their further growth.

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