The Chemical Engineer reports that a Scottish company specialising in capturing CO₂ from the whisky industry has secured £1m (US$1.3m) in public funding from the South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE). The funding will support scaling the company’s modular carbon capture system, known as Nimmons900, with the long-term ambition of removing up to 1m t/y of CO₂ by 2030.

The Carbon Removers, based near Dumfries, focuses on biogenic CO₂ sources, including whisky distilleries, farms, breweries and paper mills, and targets emissions that are often dispersed and difficult to capture using conventional large-scale systems. Its modular system can be deployed at smaller industrial and waste sites and liquifies captured CO₂ before transporting it in cryogenic ISO tanks for permanent storage. For sequestration, the company has signed a deal with a Danish storage operator to store up to 300,000 t of CO₂ underground. The long-term aim is to permanently store CO₂ in the North Sea by 2033.

Scotland has set a target to become net zero by 2045.