Sumitomo Chemicals Capture Project

Sumitomo Chemical has commissioned a commercial CO₂ capture and utilization project at its Isogo Works facility in Yokohama, Japan that captures concentrated CO₂ from an on-site hydrogen production unit and converts it into low-carbon methanol. The project integrates industrial carbon capture with catalytic methanol synthesis, using captured CO₂ as a feedstock rather than releasing it to the atmosphere. By recovering and conditioning process CO₂ streams and routing them directly into chemical production, the facility reduces the carbon intensity of methanol manufacturing and demonstrates a scalable pathway for integrating carbon capture into existing industrial operations.