Welcome to the DACMA competence center – the forefront of carbon removal
Opening in spring 2026 at the Sustainable Energy Hub in Hamburg, Germany
Groundbreaking ceremony – From vision to reality: building the DACMA Competence Center
Groundbreaking for the new DACMA Competence Center in the Port of Hamburg marks a major step in scaling Direct Air Capture technology. At the event, DACMA announced a strategic partnership with Deep Sky to supply DAC systems for a major carbon removal project in Canada, underscoring Hamburg’s role as a hub for industrial innovation and international climate cooperation.
Visit DACMA competence center, where visionary engineering meets global impact.
The DACMA Competence Center is the research and development facility of DACMA GmbH, located at the port of Hamburg, Germany. Scheduled to open in spring 2026, the center will serve as a dedicated hub for the development, construction and on-site deployment of modular Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems for international markets.
The DAC system in operation at the site is powered by solar and efuels and operates in a climate-neutral manner, demonstrating DACMA’s commitment to sustainable and scalable carbon removal solutions.
With its location at one of Europe’s key industrial hubs, the DACMA Competence Center serves as a platform for technological innovation, pilot deployment and international collaboration in the growing field of direct air capture systems.
PEGASUS – a lighthouse project for Hamburg
The Competence Center’s first major project is PEGASUS, a joint initiative between DACMA GmbH, Lother GmbH and TUHH Hamburg University of Technology. This collaboration brings together expertise from engineering, science and industrial operations to accelerate the commercialization and integration of DAC technologies within existing port infrastructure.
„With Direct Air Capture, we can extract large quantities of green raw materials for synthetic fuels and at the same time permanently remove CO2 from the cycle. With PEGASUS, we will strengthen our DAC technologies developed and built in Hamburg in international competition.“
— Jörg Spitzner, CEO
“In just one year, DACMA GmbH have achieved an exponential progress in the atmospheric carbon capture journey. The strategic alliance with Repsol (both in Venturing Capital and projects) will boost the pace of this highly focused group of outstanding engineers that are persistently looking for every angle of the technology improvement. Take the time to celebrate, acknowledge your success and keep going!!!”
“One of the most relevant projects related to the development of technologies with a negative CO2 effect, the ONLY project in Brazil on Direct Air Capture multi-country Spain, Brazil Germany in Open Innovation. Repsol Sinopec Brazil Corporation, Start Up DACMA and PUC Rio Grande do Sul University. A disruptive commitment to a more decarbonized world. Being part of this project is a privilege and a unique opportunity to add value to society.”
“In collaboration with Phoenix Contact, DACMA has developed an application that contributes to CO2 decarbonization. This technology makes a significant contribution to sector coupling in the All Electric Society and to the sustainable use of energy. I am delighted that two technology-driven companies are working together so efficiently.”
“The DACMA GmbH with Jörg Spitzner and his team are not only valuable partners in our network, but also key initiators and innovators who, with DACMA, are driving forward DAC system engineering in the Hamburg metropolitan region – an essential future climate change mitigation technology.”
“Together with our partner DACMA GmbH, we are delighted to be building the first DAC machine on the HAMBURG BLUE HUB site in the Port of Hamburg. The 30-60 tons output of CO2 annually of the DACMA machine can later be used to produce e-methanol for the Port of Hamburg, for example. This is a joint milestone, as it fits in with the plan to purchase large volumes of synthetic fuels from Power-to-X plants in Africa and South America for Germany through the HAMBURG BLUE HUB”.
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