**The world's first large-scale commercial e-methanol facility, the Kassø e-methanol facility, has been officially inaugurated and is ready to deliver e-methanol to key partners.**

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**BILLUND, DENMARK, May 13, 2025:** The Kassø e-methanol facility in Aabenraa, Denmark, has been officially inaugurated and is now supplying e-methanol to offtakers.

Developed by European Energy and operated in collaboration with Mitsui & Co., the facility is owned by Solar Park Kassø ApS under Kassø MidCo ApS, with European Energy A/S holding a 51% stake and Mitsui & Co. 49%.

The Kassø e-methanol facility is supplying e-methanol to industry leaders including A.P. Moller – Maersk, the LEGO Group, and Novo Nordisk. These companies have a shared  ambition to adopt lower-carbon solutions.

The Kassø facility is the first of its kind globally to produce e-methanol at commercial scale. The plant has an annual production capacity of 42,000 tonnes and operates entirely on renewable energy sources.

Situated next to Northern Europe’s largest solar park - the 304 MW Kassø Solar Park - the facility integrates large-scale renewable power generation with carbon capture and utilisation. By combining biogenic CO₂ with green hydrogen produced on-site, the Kassø e-methanol facility manufactures e-methanol with up to a 97% reduced carbon footprint compared to fossil-based products.

The project is designed to support the direct decarbonisation of sectors that are otherwise difficult to electrify. A.P. Moller - Maersk will use e-methanol produced at Kassø to fuel Laura Mærsk, the world’s first container vessel capable of operating on methanol. E-methanol from the facility will also be used in industrial processes where fossil-based methanol has traditionally been standard. One such application is in plastics, where manufacturers aim to adopt more sustainable materials while maintaining safety and quality standards. The LEGO Group and Novo Nordisk are also offtakers of e-methanol from Kassø, using it to replace fossil methanol in the production of selected products.

Mitsui & Co. has contributed strategic expertise and global reach to support the facility's long-term development and operation. The collaboration between European Energy and Mitsui reflects a shared ambition to accelerate commercial pathways for Power-to-X technologies and expand the use of low-emission alternatives in hard-to-abate sectors globally.

**Knud Erik Andersen, CEO of European Energy,** said:
"The start of operations at Kassø marks a major step forward in bringing Power-to-X technologies into real-world use. This is renewable energy in action, transforming how we use electricity.”

**Takashi Furutani, Senior Executive Managing Officer at Mitsui & Co.** said:
"We are honoured to play a pivotal role in advancing this pioneering project, which fosters integrated approaches across product value chains as part of our Global Energy Transition strategy. Kassø exemplifies the importance of international collaboration in scaling low-emission solutions.”

**Rabab Raafat Boulos, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at A.P. Moller - Maersk,** said:
"We are excited to receive the first e-methanol from the Kassø facility, marking an important milestone in our global efforts to source alternative fuels for our vessel fleet. The future of shipping must include multiple fuel types operating alongside each other, with methanol playing a key role in the industry’s net-zero ambitions."

**Carsten Rasmussen, Chief Operations Officer at the LEGO Group,** said:
"Sourcing renewable e-methanol is part of our ambition to make LEGO® products more sustainable and reduce carbon emissions. Later this year, we will use the material to produce select LEGO elements - such as cross axles and connectors - while maintaining our high standards of safety, durability, and quality. This partnership is a powerful example of how collaboration and innovation across industries can accelerate meaningful progress.”

**Dorethe Nielsen, VP Corporate Environmental Strategy, Novo Nordisk,** said:
"This partnership enables us to take practical steps in decarbonising our supply chain and reducing the environmental impact of our products.”

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**About European Energy**
European Energy develops, finances, constructs and operates wind and solar farms as well as Power-to-X facilities. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, the company is developing projects in 25 countries. Founded in 2004, European Energy has a development pipeline of more than 65 GW of renewable energy projects.

**About Mitsui & Co.**
Mitsui & Co. is a global investment and trading company with a presence in more than 60 countries and a diverse business portfolio covering a wide range of industries. The company identifies, develops and grows its businesses in partnership with a global network of trusted partners including world leading companies, combining its geographic and cross-industry strengths to create long-term sustainable value for its stakeholders. Mitsui has set three key strategic initiatives for its current Medium-term Management Plan: supporting industries to grow and evolve with stable supplies of resources and materials, providing infrastructure; promoting a global transition to low-carbon and renewable energy; and empowering people to lead healthy lives through the delivery of quality healthcare and access to good nutrition. 

Visit [https://www.mitsui.com/jp/en/][1] for more information.

**About Maersk**
A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated logistics company working to connect and simplify its customers’ supply chains. As a global leader in logistics services, the company operates in more than 130 countries and employs around 100,000 people. Maersk is aiming to reach net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040 across the entire business with new technologies, new vessels, and reduced GHG emissions fuels.

**About Novo Nordisk**
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease. Novo Nordisk employs about 77,400 people in 80 countries and markets its products in around 170 countries. 

For more information, visit [novonordisk.com][2], [Facebook][3], [Instagram][4], [X][5], [LinkedIn][6] and [YouTube][7].

**About the LEGO Group**
The LEGO Group’s mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow through the power of play. The LEGO® System in Play, with its foundation in LEGO bricks, allows children and fans to build and rebuild anything they can imagine.

The LEGO Group was founded in Billund, Denmark in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, its name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”.

Today, the LEGO Group remains a family-owned company headquartered in Billund. Its products are now sold in more than 120 countries worldwide.

For more information: [www.LEGO.com][8]


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The world's first large-scale commercial e-methanol facility, the Kassø e-methanol facility, has been officially inaugurated and is ready to deliver e-methanol to key partners.

Kassø e-methanol facility officially inaugurated

The world’s first large-scale e-methanol plant opens in Denmark, supplying Maersk, the LEGO Group, and Novo Nordisk with low-carbon fuel for production.

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· **$2.4 million** agreement is latest in **broad portfolio of initiatives** designed to achieve net-zero carbon ambition.
· **KIRKBI A/S** also signs $405,000 long-term agreement with Climeworks to help scale high-quality durable carbon removals.

**BILLUND, DENMARK, March 26, 2024:** As part of a commitment to reduce its environmental impact and build a sustainable future for children, the LEGO Group has entered a $2.4 million agreement with pioneering high-quality carbon-removal company Climeworks, as it continues to utilise a broad portfolio of initiatives to progress towards net-zero carbon emissions.

The agreement is for the permanent removal of hard-to-abate CO₂ emissions from the air with Climeworks’ direct air capture and storage (DAC+S) solution and is designed to help Climeworks accelerate its technology scale up. KIRKBI, the family-owned holding and investment company of the LEGO® brand, has also signed a $405,000 long-term agreement to procure Climeworks’ DAC+S carbon removal services.

**Reduce and remove CO2**
With a focus on the permanent removal of CO2 from the atmosphere, Climeworks’ DAC+S solution can play an important role in achieving net-zero carbon emissions. In 2023, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that the use of “carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be necessary to achieve net negative CO2 emissions”(1). The LEGO Group takes CO₂ emissions into account across all areas of its business and the 9-year (2023-2032) agreement means DAC+S will be one of a suite of initiatives designed to help the company achieve its net-zero carbon emissions target by 2050.

The LEGO Group’s key priority for GHG emissions remains reducing the impact of its factories, offices and stores, and supply chain. It has a SBTi (2) approved target to reduce absolute GHG emissions (Scope 1, 2 & 3) by 37 percent by 2032 (vs. a 2019 baseline) and its initiatives focus on designing buildings to run on energy from renewable sources, emphasising energy efficiency and engaging with suppliers to lower their carbon footprint. For example, the company increased its solar capacity by 16 percent to 15.6 MWp in 2023 and plans to further increase capacity this year. New sites, currently being built in Vietnam and the USA, are reviewing plans to include renewables that comply with both site and local government requirements (3).

**Drive systemic change**
In 2023 the LEGO Group increased spending on environmental initiatives by 60 percent vs. 2022, and by 2025 plans to have doubled its annual spend compared to 2023 (4). While the priority remains to measurably reduce the GHG emissions created from making and selling LEGO® bricks, innovations beyond the value chain will play a valuable role in accelerating progress.

Annette Stube, Chief Sustainability Officer at the LEGO Group, commented: “We want children to inherit a healthy planet – and we’re determined to play our part in making that happen. To succeed we must take action to drive systemic change.

“We were the first large toy company to announce a science-based emissions reduction target in 2020 and we want to continue to lead the way in finding innovative solutions for the challenges we face. This is why we are working with innovators like Climeworks – their technology, as part of a varied programme of initiatives, can help us and society as a whole realise the net-zero future that is needed to protect our planet for generations to come”.

**New Climeworks facility in Iceland**
Climeworks opened the world’s first and largest DAC+S commercial plant, called Orca, in Iceland in 2021 to capture CO₂ from the air and store it directly underground. The process involves the air being drawn into large collector containers where the CO₂ is captured through a filter. The collected CO₂ is then stored deep underground by Climeworks’ storage partner Carbfix, where it is injected deep into the ground and transformed into stone through an accelerated natural process. The filtered air is released back into the atmosphere. 

In 2022, Climeworks announced it would build a second plant in Iceland. The site, called [Mammoth][1], is due to open in May 2024 and will be Climeworks’ largest direct air capture and storage plant, capable of a nominal CO₂ capture capacity of up to 36,000 tons per year when fully operational. The heat and electricity required to run the process is supplied by the Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Plant located in Iceland(5).

Jan Huckfeldt, Chief Commercial Officer at Climeworks, commented: “We’re proud to partner with a sustainability leader like the LEGO Group who takes bold steps to make net zero happen. We see demand growing across diverse sectors, including consumer goods, which shows that carbon removal rightly has a place in every company’s net zero strategy.”

The LEGO Group plans to continue investing in high-quality and durable CO₂ removals as part of its broad net-zero programme.

**Materials for LEGO Bricks**
Alongside carbon reductions and removals initiatives, the LEGO Group is working to find solutions to make its products from more sustainable materials. This includes increasing its use of material that has been certified according to mass balance principles. In 2023, 18 percent of all resin purchased was certified according to mass balance principles, which translates into an estimated average of 12 percent renewable sources. The plan is to significantly increase this percentage in 2024 and beyond (6).


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(1) UN IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_FullVolume.pdf][1]

Page 19. Section B.5.1: Quote “Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be necessary to achieve net negative CO2 emissions”.

(2) SBTi = Science Based Targets initiative 

(3) Beyond value chain mitigation is a recognised part of a corporate net-zero target, as defined by the [Net-Zero Standard][2] from the Science Based Target initiative.

(4) Latest 2023 Sustainability progress update for more information: [https://www.lego.com/sustainability/reporting][3]. 

(5) International Energy Agency define geothermal energy as: “Geothermal energy is energy available as heat contained in or discharged from the earth’s crust that can be used for generating electricity and providing direct heat for numerous applications such as: space and district heating; water heating; aquaculture; horticulture; and industrial processes. In addition, the use of energy.” 
[Renewable Energy Essentials: Geothermal – Analysis - IEA][4]

(6) In 2023, the LEGO Group purchased mass balance materials from suppliers who are ISCC PLUS or RSB certified. The company aims to secure ISCC PLUS certification during 2024 for its use of mass balance materials. Certified mass balance materials purchased on the global market are a mix of renewable and non-renewable materials. For the LEGO Group, purchasing certified mass balance raw materials helps to increase the quantity of renewable materials used in its supply chain. The company also believes that increasing demand for certified mass balance materials will stimulate the market and in the long term create a shift away from reliance on virgin fossil fuel.

Assets caption: ©Climeworks, 2024 – Climeworks’ direct air capture and storage plant, Orca, in Hellisheidi, Iceland. 
For more information on the LEGO Group’s Sustainability Programmes, including the 2023 sustainability progress report visit [www.lego.com/sustainability][5] or contact [media@LEGO.com][6].

**Climeworks:** 
Images of Climeworks’ technology are available in Climeworks’ [newsroom][7].
For media enquiries, please contact: [media@climeworks.com][8]

**About Climeworks**
Climeworks is a global leader in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a service via direct air capture (DAC) technology, empowering companies to advance their net zero roadmaps and fight global warming.

Founded by engineers Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher in 2009, Climeworks is on a journey to climate impact at scale with integrity at its core and a focus on the highest quality, permanent removals.

Climeworks is spearheading the DAC industry globally, with the world’s first and to date largest DAC facility combined with storage installation in commercial operation, modular CO2 collectors designed for scalability, and facilities running exclusively on clean energy. Their growing customer base counts over 160 companies, including multinationals such as Microsoft, BCG, UBS, and Swiss Re.

At Orca, Climeworks’ DAC facility in Iceland, the CO2 is permanently removed from the air by capturing and geologically storing it for thousands of years with Climeworks’ underground mineralization partner Carbfix. The CDR services delivered from Orca are [verified by independent 3rd party DNV][9].

**About the LEGO Group**
The LEGO Group’s mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow through the power of play. The LEGO System in Play, with its foundation in LEGO bricks, allows children and fans to build and rebuild anything they can imagine.

The LEGO Group was founded in Billund, Denmark in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, its name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”.

Today, the LEGO Group remains a family-owned company headquartered in Billund. Its products are now sold in more than 120 countries worldwide. For more information: [www.LEGO.com][10].

**About KIRKBI**
KIRKBI A/S is the Kirk Kristiansen family’s private holding and investment company founded to build a sustainable future for the family ownership of the LEGO® brand through generations. Our work is focused on three fundamental tasks all contributing to enabling the Kirk Kristiansen family to succeed with the mission to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow: We work to protect, develop and leverage the LEGO brand across all the LEGO branded entities. We are committed to a long-term and responsible investment strategy to

ensure a sound financial foundation for the owner family’s activities as well as contributing to a sustainable development in the world. And we are dedicated to support the family members as they prepare for future generations to continue the active and engaged ownership as well as supporting their private activities, companies and philanthropic work.


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Notes to Editors

The LEGO Group has entered a $2.4 million agreement with pioneering high-quality carbon-removal company Climeworks, as it continues to utilise a broad portfolio of initiatives to progress towards net-zero carbon emissions.

The LEGO Group signs long-term agreement for Climeworks’ permanent carbon removal services

the LEGO Group has entered a $2.4 million agreement with pioneering high-quality carbon-removal company Climeworks

Climeworks Carbon Removal

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