The Curt Bergfors Foundation is honored to announce that NitroCapt was awarded the Food Planet Prize on June 13 in Stockholm, Sweden. This recognition highlights their contributions and potential to disrupt the global nitrogen fertilizer industry.
Nitrogen fertilizers are used for 50% of the world’s food production and emit as much carbon dioxide as the aviation industry. Sweden-based NitroCapt has developed a novel, energy-efficient process that makes fertilizer through plasma-produced nitrate. The technology could improve access to green fertilizer across the world.
In awarding the prize, the Food Planet Prize jury Co-Chair Johan Rockström commented: «Through NitroCapt’s innovation, nitrogen fertilizer can now be produced by splitting nitrogen from the air with plasma technology simply needing green electricity as input. This technology reduces the use of energy tenfold, can be produced locally, avoids fossil-fuels entirely, while producing a nitrate fertilizer that can improve soil health and may be used sustainably by farmers across the world.»
Gustaf Forsberg, CEO and Founder of NitroCapt, added: «NitroCapt’s mission is to decarbonize the nitrogen fertilizer industry. The current fossil-based process has reached its end point. We can also contribute to increased food production in areas that today have difficulties producing sufficient amounts. We are just about to finalize our industrial-scale pilot, and we have fertilizer in the field, but we’re still not at the scale where we want to be.
This prize will be very important for us to bring our technology to the stage where we can start making a difference.»
