Muscles & Kisses

Over the years, I have embraced gardening, it used to be more of the duty of tending the garden, which nowadays for me is something I do with tender and care. It has grown to become an interest, a state of mind and what I look forward to, mostly on weekends.

Gardening involves a lot of hard work, whether it is spring, summer or autumn. Over the past few weeks, it has involved cutting of a lot of branches on trees and bushes. It has been a considerable amount of muscle work, to get it into the shape for the winter rest, and prepare it for the coming season. It is a cycle that repeats itself, until death do us part...

And this vivid and long season is a fond au revoir, as the garden has given so many pleasures this year. let's return to the reality, the machinery and tools have been frequently used lately; I have removed old, half-dead trees and branches, replaced them with even more new shrubs, bushes and trees! And that means that the garden will capture even more carbon in the coming years!

The constant gardening, digging, planting, cutting, with soil under the nails, the muscles combined with kisses, from all the great rewards the garden gives during a season.

And the same goes for my daily tasks and main duties at work, it is about planting the seeds, tending and make the business grow. Our activities with industrial carbon capture products and solutions means a lot of hard work, to build a new industry, and both educating companies and learning at the same time, as this nascent market is still learning how to work.

It is the mode of the entrepreneur, with patience and persistence required, combined with agility, as well as building on our strengths to deliver projects and go at industrial scale. Affordability is a major parameter for emitters to have sound business cases, and the investability to move forward comes from the predictability of the whole project, the delivery, technology performance and for customers to know that they have a trusted partner that deliver on promises.

In addition, I get to meet a lot of players for our value chain; fabricators, construction companies, suppliers - and we are depending also on their capabilities and bright ideas to make these projects work into the realization and get plants in operation.

Building a better future is highly motivating, and encouraging, and every link in our value chain of realizing carbon capture and the energy transition projects are critical - together we make it work - be /or become/ part of the solution.

/Mika