CarbonCapture Inc. has unveiled the first direct air capture system (DAC)to be designed for mass production and made in the US.

The new, modular Leo Series will be manufactured at the company’s new 83,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona. The facility can produce up to 4,000 shipping-container size modules annually. That figure represents over two megatons of annual carbon removal.

The Leo Series incorporates industry-leading, advanced structured sorbents that enable each module to capture over 500 tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year. Due to the open systems architecture, modules can be upgraded throughout their life with higher capacity sorbents as they become available. The company claims this will minimise obsolescence risk over time and drive down costs.

CarbonCapture Inc. describes its announcement as a “key inflection point in the atmospheric carbon removal industry as it begins to transition from laboratory research to large-scale deployments in the field.”

CarbonCapture Inc. CEO Adrian Corless says the company is seeing robust demand for its modules from both company-owned projects fueled by carbon removal credit sales and from external project developers.

The first Leo Series modules will be deployed in 2025 and made available worldwide.