November 02, 2026
C1 sells first technology licence and signs strategic partnership with leading Indian engineering company Thermax
Stocklisted engineering giant Thermax to build methanol plant in India based on C1 technology / Goal is to build the capabilities required for commercial scale deployment of C1’s technology and to establish a viable pathway for biomethanol production / As India seeks to reduce it’s dependence on fossil fuel imports, demand for biomethanol produced from local agricultural waste streams is growing fast
October 20, 2026
EU Innovation Fund awards €13.3 million grant to C1’s METHANOL.ONE first-of-a-kind green methanol plant
METHANOL.ONE project is selected from 358 applications in the EU Innovation Fund, Europe’s largest funding program for net-zero technologies / The plant will produce 20 tons of green methanol per day in Leuna and avoid 318,000 tons of CO₂-equivalent in its first ten years / METHANOL.ONE demonstrates the full potential of C1’s technology and serves as a lighthouse for future licensing customers – enabling C1’s existing project pipeline of >3,000 tons per day capacity
May 06, 2026
Inventor, Founder, and CTO Dr. Marek Checinski leaves C1 Green Chemicals AG – Focus on commercialization
Dr. Marek Checinski, who invented the underlying technology of C₁, has left the company at the end of 2025 to dedicate himself to new innovations / He returns to CreativeQuantum, the first company he founded / C₁ is focusing on the further commercialization of the technology
March 19, 2025
Green Methanol: C1 secures another €20 million to commercialize the circular raw material of the future
Berlin-based cleantech company C1 has raised €20 million in fresh capital to replace fossil resources in the shipping, aviation and chemical industries / Construction of a demonstration plant is scheduled to begin in 2025 / For this, C1 is recruiting experienced talent from established industrial players
September 04, 2024
C1 produces first methanol in Leuna100 pilot project
Cleantech company C1 has successfully produced its first batch of methanol at its pilot plant in Leuna / The plant uses a groundbreaking new catalysis technology that enables more efficient and environmentally friendly methanol production / By using industrially available components, the production plant is easily scalable and paves the way for the mass production of green methanol
March 18, 2024
C1 proves continuous green methanol production process in record time, confirming predictions from quantum chemistry
Berlin-based start-up sets a new standard in green methanol production while tripling innovation speed with the predictive power of quantum chemistry
November 20, 2023
Inauguration of the world’s first pilot plant for the cost-efficient production of green methanol
German Minister for Transport, Dr. Volker Wissing, opens plant in the Leuna Chemical Park / Unique and innovative approach to methanol production with novel catalysis process enables market ramp-up of green methanol
August 15, 2023
Green methanol for shipping and industry: €10.4 M. for "Leuna100" pilot
Consortium of Fraunhofer, DBI, TU Berlin and C1 makes industrial history at the Leuna site (near Leipzig) / German Ministry of Transport promotes ecological re-invention of 100-year-old methanol production process
March 28, 2023
C1 presents own reactor for green methanol
Milestone on the way to industrial production of green methanol at competitive prices
January 12, 2023
Maersk backs C1 to make zero-carbon shipping a reality faster - and cheaper
Berlin-based start-up found a way to mass-produce green methanol at a competitive price / Partnership with the global pioneer in decarbonisation of shipping enables faster scale and technological cooperation
March 31, 2022
With Quantum Chemistry and Prominent Investors to Green Methanol
Berlin-based start-up aims to make the chemical industry more sustainable and less dependent on fossil imports / Jürgen Hambrecht, Wolfgang Reitzle and Jim Hagemann Snabe among investors
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