Capture at the source
Post-combustion amine capture sized to the cogen plant's flue gas, engineered for continuous island duty.
Kawaihae, Hawaiʻi Island · Base of operations
High-density dry ice and food-grade CO2, made in Hawaiʻi.
Our new base of operations at Kawaihae on the Big Island is built around high-density dry ice production with revert recovery — capturing the CO2 conventional pelletizers vent to atmosphere — plus logistics to deliver food-grade liquid CO2 to Hawaiʻi's agricultural sector.
Since 2009
Operating in Hawaiʻi
Kawaihae
Base of operations, Hawaiʻi Island
Act 198
SB2865 signed into Hawaii law
5T3N9
CAGE code · federal past performance
Where we are today
A Kawaihae CO2 hub for the Big Island and beyond.
Dibshawaii is past the concept stage. State law now recognizes carbon capture and sequestration as a Hawaiʻi industry, we hold a long-term master lease on a 12-acre industrial parcel, and we have organized the operators and landowners who can actually supply and use it.
Our current phase centers on Kawaihae: standing up high-density dry ice production with revert recovery on the pelletizer so vented CO2 is recaptured and re-liquefied rather than lost, and building the tank, trailer, and route capacity to move food-grade LCO2 to growers, packers, and processors across Hawaiʻi Island — with deep-draft harbor access for inter-island distribution.
Our dry ice blasting crews continue serving marine, industrial, and restoration clients statewide while the plant comes online with NAER Inc.
Our mission
We love carbon dioxide — and we intend to put it to work for the communities that need it most.
Our mission is to deliver affordable high-density dry ice to Hawaiʻi's most vulnerable communities — the rural towns, small growers, fishers, food hubs, and emergency responders who lose product and access first when the cold chain breaks. Density is affordability: pellets that sublimate slower travel further on the same pound, so a shipment reaches Hanapēpē or Naʻalehu as cold as it left Kawaihae.
We call that carbon kuleana. CO2 is not waste to us — it is a resource we capture, recover, and return to the loop, and a responsibility we carry to the people and place that host our work. Community-first engagement means beneficiary-first returns on Hawaiian home lands, local hire and training, and pricing built for access rather than extraction. That is the mark we mean to leave.
Path forward
Post-combustion capture from our 4.2 MW cogeneration plant.
Decarbonization is not a slogan here — it is the business. We are engineering post-combustion CO2 recovery on the flue gas of our 4.2 MW cogeneration plant, so the stream of carbon dioxide we are responsible for becomes food-grade LCO2 and high-density dry ice instead of an emission.
That is carbon kuleana: capture, purify, liquefy, and utilize on one integrated CCSU campus, with revert recovery closing the loop at the pellet press.
As a Native Hawaiian owned enterprise, we are planting our flag of energy sovereignty on our Department of Hawaiian Home Lands industrial property inside the Kailapa Hawaiian Homestead — building durable infrastructure that lifts people in place.
Integrated CCSU campus
Capture, purification, liquefaction, dry ice pressing, and revert recovery on one site — minimal transport losses.
Beneficiary-first buildout
Sited on DHHL land within Kailapa Homestead, with local hire, training, and returns that stay in the community.
CO2 virtual terminal
A Native Hawaiian owned third-party CO2 infrastructure for the whole state.
We are building a CO2 virtual terminal: island production, bulk storage, and inter-island distribution operated as neutral third-party infrastructure. Instead of every grower, packer, and installation contracting its own mainland supply chain, they draw from one Hawaiʻi-based pool — food-grade liquid CO2 and high-density dry ice, scheduled and delivered across the state in support of agriculture and defense logistics.
Island supply, not import dependency
CO2 recovered and produced here at Kawaihae, with revert recovery on the press and post-combustion capture from our 4.2 MW cogen — supply that does not sail 2,500 miles to reach a farm.
Statewide distribution
Bulk LCO2 tanks, exchange cylinders, and high-density dry ice moved by barge and truck to every major island on a scheduled cadence, with cold-chain support for agriculture and food processing.
Third-party and defense-ready
Neutral, non-competing infrastructure open to any offtaker — growers, packers, utilities, and federal customers. CAGE 5T3N9, with past performance supporting DoD logistics in Hawaiʻi.
Recent achievements
Four milestones that changed what we can build.
Legislation
SB2865 signed into law as Act 198
Dibshawaii helped advance and support SB2865, now Act 198, establishing the statutory framework Hawaii needs for carbon capture, utilization and sequestration activity in the islands. It gives projects like ours a defined path from concept to permitted operation.
Land & Infrastructure
GL No. 275 — DHHL master lease, 12-acre industrial parcel
A general master lease with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands secures a 12-acre industrial parcel as the operating base for our processing, staging, and equipment yard — anchoring long-term investment on Hawaiian home lands with beneficiary-first economic returns.
Industry Formation
Hawaii Carbon Capture, Storage & Utilization Consortium
We convened operators, landowners, technology providers, and researchers into a single consortium so Hawaii can develop CCUS capacity as a coordinated industry rather than a set of isolated pilots — sharing feedstock logistics, measurement standards, and permitting knowledge.
Partnership
Partnership with NAER Inc.
Our partnership with NAER Inc. brings engineering depth and project delivery capacity to our carbon and biomass work, moving the 12-acre site from entitlement toward buildout and commercial operation.
Partners & consortium members
A local value chain, not a single project.
Feedstock, engineering, processing, and end products — each partner covers a link that Hawaiʻi previously had to import.
AgenergyHawai'i
Agricultural energy & feedstock
Turning agricultural residue and energy crops into a reliable island feedstock stream for carbon and energy projects.
Hawaii Hardwoods
Forestry & wood products
Locally milled hardwood and forestry residuals — durable wood products that store carbon and by-products that feed utilization pathways.
Mandeville Modular
Modular construction
Factory-built modular structures that shorten construction timelines on-island and put local materials into local housing and facilities.
NAER Inc.
Engineering & project delivery
Technical partner on carbon capture and utilization systems, site engineering, and commercial buildout.
What we do
Capabilities
High-density dry ice production
Our Kawaihae plant is built around high-density dry ice — 3mm and 16mm pellets and blocks pressed for maximum density, so they sublimate slower, ship farther, and hold temperature through inter-island transit.
Revert recovery on the pelletizer
Conventional pelletizing vents roughly half its CO2 to atmosphere. Revert recovery technology captures that vented gas at the pelletizer, re-liquefies it, and returns it to the feed loop — near-zero process venting and dramatically better yield per ton of LCO2.
Food-grade LCO2 logistics for agriculture
Bulk and micro-bulk food-grade liquid CO2 delivered to Hawaiʻi Island growers, packers, and processors — controlled-atmosphere storage, post-harvest cooling, greenhouse enrichment, beverage and value-added processing — with tanks, telemetry, and a scheduled island route.
Dry ice blasting
Carbon-neutral surface preparation using reclaimed CO2 — no chemicals, no water, no secondary waste stream. Marine, industrial, food-grade, restoration, and fire remediation work statewide.
Carbon capture & utilization
Capturing and reusing industrial CO2 on-island, plus biochar and biomass utilization pathways that keep carbon and value in Hawaiʻi.
Biomass & land stewardship
Invasive removal, forestry residual handling, and feedstock aggregation that reduce wildfire fuel load while supplying our processing operations.
In the field
Pure. Powerful. Pono.
Since 2009, dry ice blasting across Hawaiʻi — aviation, resorts, food plants, federal installations, and heavy industry — is the operating experience behind our Kawaihae production build-out.
Past performance
Trusted on federal jobs in Hawaiʻi since 2009.
Dibshawaii has delivered dry ice blasting and industrial cleaning for Department of Defense clients across the islands — work performed to spec, under escort, and inside active operational environments.
CAGE Code 5T3N9· Native Hawaiian owned · In operation since 2009
NAVFAC Environmental
Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command environmental work — surface preparation and remediation-adjacent cleaning where containment and waste minimization matter.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Structural and facility cleaning support on Corps-managed assets, from coatings prep to restoration of steel and concrete in marine environments.
Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Installation support including aviation, facility, and equipment cleaning using dry ice blasting — no secondary waste stream, no disassembly, mission-ready turnaround.
Contact
Work with us, or join the consortium.
We are talking with landowners, industrial CO2 sources, agricultural producers, agencies, and investors. If your operation touches carbon, biomass, or heavy industry in Hawaiʻi, there is likely a fit.
Kford@dibshawaii.com
Dibshawaii LLC
Kawaihae, Hawaiʻi Island
Kawaihae, Hawaiʻi Island