Airhive Acquires Carbyon, Creating a European Leader in Low-Cost Direct Air Capture Technology

Combination comes as UK and European policy support for carbon dioxide removal accelerates.

JULY 14, 2026, LONDON AND EINDHOVEN. Airhive and Carbyon, two pioneers of direct air capture (DAC) technology development in Europe, have combined to create an Anglo-Dutch DAC leader with deep technological and operational expertise and a strengthened position for deploying low-cost DAC at the scale required to mitigate climate change. 

The companies will integrate their teams and operate cross-border under Airhive’s name. Early-stage research and development will centre in the Netherlands at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, where the combined company will develop Airhive’s next-generation “Cascade” technology that targets further DAC cost breakthroughs. 

The companies have developed different but complementary approaches to solid-sorbent DAC: methods that rely on reactive minerals to capture carbon dioxide in a closed, monitored, highly engineered system. Airhive’s approach focuses on fluidisation technology adapted from other industries like food and pharmaceuticals, while Carbyon’s centres on a proprietary sorbent with high kinetics that improve capturing capacity. 

Airhive and Carbyon have shown notable momentum in the past year, even as market oscillations have underlined the case for consolidation across the carbon removal ecosystem.  

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