Now, nine years later, and the duo's first commercial CO2 extraction plant sits on top of a waste utilisation plant in view of Meier brothers' greenhouses 400 metres away. The first business plan was then developed for a venture challenge course at the university. "We presented our concept and concluded a memorandum regarding the possibility of purchase, in case we managed to build the corresponding plant," Gebald recalled. The duo had the idea to filter CO2 directly from ambient air and sell it on to Gebrüder Meier as a raw material delivered via gas pipeline. The farm was ordering tanks of CO2 that were delivered by a truck that had to cover large distances. They were both students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) at the time. The company was founded by engineers Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, who first came up with the idea for the DAC plant in 2008 after visiting the greenhouses of agricultural enterprise Gebrüder Meier Primanatura AG in Hinwil, Switzerland.
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