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“Seeing the plants we are designing come to life and knowing that my work contributes to making them a reality” is what Aysha excites most about working at Phlair. Aysha supports Phlair as a Working Student in Engineering and Project Management. During her studies, she contributed to the development of a Direct Air Capture technology prototype, which sparked her interest in pursuing a career in the DAC industry. In her role at Phlair, she is actively involved in the design and execution of our projects. She enjoys seeing how her work contributes to tangible progress and values collaborating with the team to bring projects from concept to reality. Aysha's work as a working student moves us closer to our goals every week. At Phlair, working students take on real responsibility from day one. The trust we put in our working students from early on pays off. We’re glad to have Aysha on the team, and we'll keep bringing strong talent on board. #Phlair #DirectAirCapture

On 17 July the European Commission published its EU ETS revision proposal. Article 9c stands out and has caused a lot of noise since. For the first time, a compliance-driven market for carbon removal is taking shape in Europe. Nothing like this existed before, even as a proposal. At Phlair, we're directly affected. Here’s what we think about it: - Quality before price. Fossil carbon has to be counterbalanced by storage on a comparable timescale. Only DACCS and BioCCS do that reliably. - Volume is not settled. 250 million allowances is not 250 million tonnes of CDR. That number has driven most of the debate. It shows how open the pricing question stays. What gets delivered depends entirely on the cost curve. - The signal is real. Ten years of committed volume plus a sovereign buyer is what makes deployment financeable. For the first time, compliance demand can secure an investment decision. So the call to action runs both ways: DACCS has to put realistic growth on the table, and policymakers have to make the support mechanisms reachable. We're optimistic Europe is heading the right way, and we'll put in the work to deploy and move down the cost curve. We're building to supply this market. Our first German demo plant is coming soon. Full take in the slides. #CarbonRemoval #DirectAirCapture #EUETS #ClimatePolicy #CRCF

🌍 A day at Phlair. Our ICVT team visited Phlair in Ismaning. It was intersting to see how a startup has grown to 45 people in just four years and is already operating electrochemical systems at multiple scales. Phlair's technology captures CO₂ directly from ambient air using renewable electricity, with a modular approach designed for scalable deployment. Thank you to the Phlair team for the warm welcome, the open discussions, and the tour through your facilities. #ICVT #TUClausthal #Phlair #DirectAirCapture #DAC #Electrochemistry #ClimateTech #Research

Emilie joined Phlair in 2023 as a working student and intern. She studied chemistry through her Bachelor’s, and specialized in electrochemistry during her Master’s. Now she returns to pursue her PhD with Phlair. Her research will focus on the development of our electrochemical salt-splitting hydrolyzer, with the goal of applying it to direct air capture. Why a PhD? “I want to understand things on a deep level. A PhD gives you the chance to focus on one defined topic for a few years. And, it‘s a training ground for end-to-end project management, taking an idea from concept all the way to execution.” Why at Phlair? “Here, I see direct impact of my research. The team is exceptionally mission-driven, motivated and smart. I just couldn’t leave!” Emilie’s PhD is supervised by Prof. Hubert Gasteiger from Technical University of Munich (TUM), who has been active in the fields of electrolysis, fuel cells, and lithium-ion batteries for more than three decades. Through regular meetings, she exchanges data and ideas with his group and has access to their lab and analytics infrastructure. This connects Phlair’s applied research directly with academic depth. We're thrilled to be taking this journey with Emilie and supporting her PhD. Backing outstanding talent like Emilie early on and throughout their career is what drives us, and we look forward to supporting more PhDs in the future.

Congrats to Alex Petre and our partner and customer Deep Sky. This is an important milestone for the DAC industry! Link to the article in the comments.

We're building the German Hidden Champion for Direct Air Capture. As part of the CDR Experience Tour, we showed 80 guests from politics, science, industry, and media what that looks like. We walked them through our pilot, ran a panel on the voluntary carbon market, and hosted a talk on how CDR fits into the EU ETS. Germany has committed €500M to carbon removal. The question now is who turns that budget into real tonnes captured. And whether Germany ends up building the technology and participate in this large, emerging market. We believe our product can change conventional DAC economics: a DAC process running directly on intermittent wind and solar. While most DAC needs baseload power, we’re ready to leverage the grid of 2030+. Thanks to Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE) and everyone who showed up.

WISAG has kept buildings clean for 60 years. Now they're turning to the CO₂ in the air. WISAG, one of Germany's leading multi-service companies (spanning facility, industrial and aviation services) is entering a technology partnership with Phlair to support our lighthouse project for the permanent storage of unavoidable CO₂ emissions (more on that at the end of the year). Rather than just buying credits, they want to build the expertise first and gain experience working with the technology. For a values-driven family business thinking in generations, that's a logical move. Carbon removal will be part of how companies handle their footprint for decades. WISAG is laying the foundation for a successful emissions strategy: mastering the technology first instead of relying on certificates alone, learning DAC hands-on, early and proactively. As Michael C. Wisser, CEO of the WISAG Group, puts it, “Our goal is to gain both key economic and technological insights into how to deal sensibly with unavoidable CO₂ emissions through our participation in the project and our close collaboration with Phlair.” Learn more: https://lnkd.in/epYqrK-R

Phlair is one of the stations on the CDR Experience Tour 2026. We’ll show a delegation from politics, industry and science that Direct Air Capture is more than PowerPoint slides. Here's the thing about carbon removal: almost no one outside the CDR bubble has ever seen it work. It lives in decks, models and press releases. But the people making the decisions that decide whether this industry scales have rarely stood in front of the actual machine. On 18 June, the #CDRExperienceTour, organised by Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE) together with remove, CDRterra and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, brings people from politics, industry, science and media to Germany's leading carbon removal projects. We're one of the stops. The timing matters. Germany announced a federal budget of €500M for carbon removal through 2033. The EU's CRCF now has its first methodologies for permanent removals, DAC among them. By 31 July, the Commission will set out how permanent removals are integrated into the EU ETS. The groundwork for a real CDR market in Europe is being laid right now and we'll show the delegation what that looks like in practice. At Phlair, the focus is Direct Air Capture. Our Hydrolyzer-based system pulls CO2 from the air and can run on intermittent renewables like wind and solar, integrating with the electrical grid of the future. Our CEO Malte Feucht will give a company presentation, followed by a tour of our DAC plant and a panel. Looking forward to welcoming everyone on the tour. More on the tour: https://lnkd.in/dnZHksg6 — Please note: the CDR Experience Tour is an exclusive delegation trip and already fully booked. Stefan Schlosser Paul Wunderlich Klaus Kordowski Philipp Rupp Nadine Saken-Walsh Julia Pongratz

We're hiring! Meet us at IKOM Startup at TUM Garching today. Want to join a mission-driven team of engineers and scientists to solve one of the most biggest challenges of our time? At Phlair, we’re developing and deploying an electrochemical Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology, to enable CO2 capture from ambient air: scalable and at low cost. We‘re currently hiring for several internship, working student and full-time positions: - Procurement (full-time) - Electrochemical Engineering (intern) - Control Team – Systems & Data Infrastructure (intern/working student) - Chemical Operations (working student/master thesis) Learn more on our careers page: https://phlair.com/careers