Sources: AWS, Seattle; CMCM staff In his inaugural About Amazon blog post, Amazon Web Services Director of Sustainability Chris Walker cites savings of 22,000-plus tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) year to date across 27 data center construction material schedules, owing to specification of lower carbon concrete and steel where Read more…
Sources: Materials Processing Institute, United Kingdom; CMCM staff Cambridge University researchers have conducted the first scrap-metal trial melt in the Materials Processing Institute (MPI) Cement 2 Zero project, aiming to prove the potential of portland cement clinker production using graded, recycled concrete material as flux in electric arc furnace (EAF) Read more…
Sources: Carbon Upcycling Inc., Calgary; CMCM staff A $26 million Series A funding round positions Carbon Upcycling to expedite carbon capture and utilization projects at the Cemex Rugby, U.K. and Ash Grove Cement Mississauga, Ontario plants. Work is concurrent on the projects, which represent the first commercial deployments in portland Read more…
Sources: CRH Ventures, Dublin; CMCM staff Ash Grove Cement plans to install a series of Carbon Upcycling reactors engineered to convert carbon dioxide, industrial byproduct and secondary mineral feeds to concrete-grade cementitious materials. A top five North American cement operator, Ash Grove will inaugurate the technology at it Mississauga plant Read more…