TOKYO, August 25, 2025 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has signed a collaboration agreement with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor Corporation (TTL) Jhunan Brewery covering their planned demonstration tests of the process of capturing and utilizing CO₂. Under this agreement, Mitsubishi Electric, ITRI and TTL will capture CO₂ emitted from TTL Jhunan Brewery and purify it for use in a beer production line, aiming to thereby achieve carbon recycling.

In April 2024, Mitsubishi Electric and ITRI concluded a basic agreement to cooperate on research targeting sustainability technologies. Since then, they have been engaged in research and development of carbon dioxide capture and utilization (CCU) technology. In June 2025, Mitsubishi Electric installed a CO₂ capture machine developed by ITRI at its Advanced Technology R&D Center in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, and commenced demonstrations of the capture of CO₂ from the flue gas of a gas boiler.^*

As the next step towards the widespread implementation of CO₂ capture technology from flue gases, Mitsubishi Electric and ITRI have signed a collaboration agreement with TTL Jhunan Brewery covering the planned demonstration tests of the process by which TTL Jhunan Brewery will capture and utilize the CO₂ emitted during its beverage manufacturing process.

Under this agreement, the three parties will work on establishing technologies to capture CO₂ from the flue gas of a gas boiler at TTL Jhunan Brewery and to purify the captured CO₂ for use in a beer production line. They will also research the technical challenges and the economic feasibility of capturing and utilizing CO₂. Through these demonstration tests, Mitsubishi Electric and ITRI aim to accelerate the research and development of CCU technology, while TTL Jhunan Brewery seeks to reduce CO₂ emissions from its factory and expand the potential use of captured CO₂ in its own factory.

Mitsubishi Electric will further accelerate research and development aimed at achieving the wider implementation of an entire carbon dioxide capture and utilization system that handles all processes involved in the capture and utilization of CO₂. In the future, Mitsubishi Electric will combine this knowhow with our Energy & Facility solutions, and will work to respond to the demand for carbon recycling from factories and plants. Going forward, with the goal of realizing sustainable society, Mitsubishi Electric will continue to accelerate its“Trade-On” activities to simultaneously address technical issues in modern society and achieve business growth.