LEIPA Georg Leinfelder Schwedt Mill Carbon Capture Project

LEIPA Georg Leinfelder GmbH is supplying captured industrial CO₂ from its recycled paper and cardboard manufacturing operations in Schwedt, Germany as part of the Concrete Chemicals eSAF and CCU project. Under the cooperation agreement, LEIPA will provide a local, stable CO₂ feedstock stream that will be captured from its production processes and delivered for conversion into sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF), e-diesel, and e-methanol. The captured CO₂ will be combined with renewable hydrogen produced via electrolysis to synthesize drop-in low-carbon fuels compatible with existing transport and aviation infrastructure. The integrated project, supported by €350 million in EU Innovation Fund financing, is designed to enable industrial-scale eFuel production exceeding 100,000 tonnes per year. LEIPA’s role anchors the project’s carbon supply chain by enabling onshore industrial carbon capture tied directly to fuel production. By providing biogenic and process-related CO₂ from recycled paper manufacturing, LEIPA is directly linking the circular materials economy with low-carbon fuel production and supporting large-scale deployment of carbon utilization technologies in Germany’s industrial sector.