Fertiliser business Yara has announced the inauguration of Europe’s largest industrial carbon capture facility.
The facility at Yara’s Sluiskil plant in Holland will capture and liquefy up to 800,000 tons of CO2 annually from ammonia production, thereby avoiding carbon taxation on these volumes and providing low-carbon fertilisers to support more sustainable food production.
Yara says the project provides a practical example of how cross-border CO2 transport and storage could support industrial decarbonisation across Europe – an issue of growing importance to the UK as it develops its own carbon capture, transport and storage infrastructure.
CO2 will be transported by ship to Norway, where it will be permanently stored beneath the seabed by Northern Lights.
“This is an important day for Yara and for European industry. The carbon capture facility in Sluiskil proves that large-scale industrial decarbonisation is possible today. As global competition intensifies, Europe must find ways to cut emissions while keeping industry, jobs and critical value chains in Europe. That is exactly what this project is about,” says Svein Tore Holsether, president and CEO of Yara International.
With the right framework conditions in place, the project is expected to capture and store around 12 million tons of CO2 over the next 15 years, making a significant contribution to European climate goals and industrial transformation.
