1PointFive has agreed to sell more than 15,000 tonnes of direct air capture (DAC) carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits to date through a network of channel partners, the company disclosed this week.

The DAC developer accumulated the tally via agreements with three resellers — CUR8, Supercritical, and Patch — the most recent addition to a distribution model the company frames as the route by which smaller and mid-sized buyers can reach high-integrity, project-based removal.

Why route through resellers?

The channel structure mirrors the distributor model used across other industrial commodity markets, where a developer cannot economically contract with every prospective buyer one-on-one.

"Much like retailers connect manufacturers with a broader range of buyers, channel partners connect organizations with carbon removal solutions from developers such as 1PointFive," the company stated.

The setup matters because DAC credits come in discrete tranches tied to facility throughput. A single project's annual output can dwarf what a mid-sized corporate buyer needs, leaving smaller purchasers priced out or forced into marketplaces with thin liquidity.

Who sits on the partner roster?

Three named resellers carry the volume:

• CUR8 — a carbon removal marketplace whose CEO and co-founder Marta Krupinska fronts the 1PointFive partnership
• Supercritical — a credit aggregator focused on high-integrity removal
• Patch — the most recent entrant, integrated into the partner set this cycle

The channels have moved credit into both large one-off events such as sporting occasions, and into year-end additions to high-impact portfolios designed to support annual corporate decarbonization targets.

How do partners handle the volume mix?

Channel partners expose 1PointFive's credits through integrated marketplaces that reach both sustainability and procurement functions inside a buyer organisation. The process replaces the conventional direct outreach to suppliers that smaller buyers would otherwise need to manage on their own.

"The ability to right-size volumes for customers with smaller or more bespoke needs means we can put more tonnes to work in a broader set of decarbonization strategies," 1PointFive said.

In effect, the channel converts a project-scale commodity into a buyer-scale commodity without diluting the underlying removal credit.

What does CUR8 add to the mix?

For CUR8's customer base, the partnership is portfolio strategy first, volume second.

"We help our customers align their carbon removal strategy and purchasing with their broader business objectives, and for most, that means building a balanced portfolio that includes high-quality, long-duration removal like Direct Air Capture," Krupinska said.

"We're proud to partner with 1PointFive to give our customers a credible pathway to bring DAC into that mix," she added.

That framing locates 1PointFive's credits inside a diversified removal mix rather than positioning them as a standalone carbon instrument.

What milestone decides what happens next?

The 15,000-tonne sales figure is a commercial milestone but a rounding error against the gigatonne-scale removal the wider carbon-removal market says it must deliver this decade. Scaling CDR to climate-relevant volumes requires projects that produce at a different scale than today's channel pilots, paired with the company-relevant buying options the partner network is designed to provide, according to 1PointFive.

The next data point that matters is project commissioning at 1PointFive's planned commercial-scale DAC facilities. Until those plants begin commercial deliveries, channel partners will carry most of the accessible DAC supply reaching corporate buyers. First-of-kind volumes from those facilities will test whether channel demand can absorb project-scale output rather than commissioning lots.