Association for the Decarbonization of Industry
Long-term goal of negative emissions
How leading companies, together with science and the canton of Zug, are leading a promising process to a breakthrough.
Our sponsors
Initiative
In order to achieve the climate goals, the sponsorship intends to raise the process of splitting methane into hydrogen from laboratory to industrial level and to use it quickly in Swiss industrial companies.
Why association
The Association for the Decarbonization of Industry (VZDI) is responsible for the implementation of the initiative and the development of the ecosystem for the emission-free use of methane.
Technology
Thanks to close cooperation between research and industry, academic knowledge can be quickly transferred into practice and the process can thus achieve a breakthrough at industrial level.
Quotations
“State-imposed measures are not enough to stop global warming. In close cooperation, research and industry have the potential to further accelerate decarbonization. The Association for the Decarbonization of Industry is a role model that will hopefully be imitated in other areas.”
Andreas Bittig - Association for the decarbonization of industry
January 2023
“We are very pleased that the project team has scaled up a laboratory facility to such an extent in such a short time that we were able to inaugurate an industrially usable plant.”
Silvia Thalmann-Gut - Zug Economics Director
December 2025
“The decarbonization concept of the association for decarbonization of the industry consists of a two-stage approach: a first step that can be implemented quickly with the decarbonization of natural gas and a second step in which the natural gas is replaced by renewable, synthetic methane. Replacing fossil natural gas with renewable methane will result in negative CO2 emissions»
Christian Bach - BUT
April 2023
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