Scheuch Group awarded state prize for innovation
The Scheuch Group is delighted to have won second place in the Upper Austrian State Prize 2025 Award and to have been nominated for the Austrian State Prize.
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Scheuch Group awarded state prize for innovation
With TACO₂, Scheuch sets a milestone for the decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries.
The Scheuch Group wins second place of the Upper Austrian State Prize for Innovation 2025 and has been nominated for the Austrian State Prize for Innovation. The company from Aurolzmünster impressed the jury with its TACO₂ project – a process for industrial CO₂ capture. The state prize honours companies that contribute to climate protection, strengthening the region and innovation with forward-looking technologies.
CO₂ capture
With the TACO₂ project, the Scheuch Group is working on a process for capturing CO₂ from flue gases. The aim is to make CO₂ capture more efficient, cost-effective and usable for industrial applications.
Award ceremony in Linz
The award was presented on 30 September 2025 at the ORF regional studio in Linz. In addition to the Scheuch Group, EV Group and STIWA Group were among the winners. The certificates were presented by Governor Thomas Stelzer and Regional Minister for Economic Affairs and Research Markus Achleitner. Stefan Scheuch, CEO of the Scheuch Group, and Christian Bartel, Head of R&D, accepted the awards.
Important step towards decarbonisation
‘With this project, we are setting a decisive milestone on the path to economically viable CO₂ capture for industry,’ emphasises Stefan Scheuch. ‘We are developing practical solutions that make an economic contribution to the decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries.’
In future, the captured CO₂ can be used in a variety of ways – for example, in food processing, in greenhouses or as a technical gas. The Scheuch Group is thus positioning itself as a driving force in strengthening Upper Austria as an industrial location in the field of CO₂ capture and opening up sustainable ways for companies to deal with emissions.
About Scheuch Group:
60 years of experience
The Scheuch Group is a family-owned business whose goal is to make a positive impact to protecting the earth and local communities with sustainable technologies for air pollution control. For more than half a century, the Upper Austrian company has been working to reduce particulate matter and emissions form the air by means of extraction, dust removal, conveying and flue gas cleaning. These technologies and others also reduce noise and odors that are produced during the manufacturing process. In addition to serving the industrial minerals, energy, metal, wood-based materials, glass and wood industries, the core business also includes service and components. Customers can leverage all or any of the services the company delivers from sales, project management, design, research & development, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning and after-sales service. Today, the Scheuch Group and its more than 1,440 employees and subsidiaries across the globe, is regarded as a leading international environmental technology company.