Sources: Solidia Technologies, San Antonio, Texas; CP staff CTS Cement Manufacturing Corp., California-based producer of Rapid Set and Komponent specialty concrete binders, recently completed the first of a series of planned Solidia Cement production campaigns. A low limestone binder that gains strength through exposure to carbon dioxide and the attendant Read more…
Sources: RMI, Boulder, Colo.; U.S. Green Building Council, Washington, D.C.; CP staff Environmental policy authority RMI and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) address emissions reduction challenges along with measures to accelerate building construction sector decarbonization in “Driving Action on Embodied Carbon in Buildings.” Released in conjunction with USGBC’s 2023 Read more…
Sources: Sublime Systems, Somerville, Mass.; CMCM staff Third-party testing confirms that Sublime Systems’ namesake concrete binder, produced with sharply lower carbon dioxide emissions metrics than portland cement, exhibits strength development, durability, low shrinkage and other engineering properties matching or exceeding ASTM C1157, Standard Performance Specification for Hydraulic Cement benchmarks. In 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: U.S. Department of Energy; CMCM staff The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has committed just under $32 million to 10 projects supporting decarbonization of ore- or scrap-based iron and steelmaking operations and converting other existing ancillary and thermal processes to use clean fuels or electricity. The projects, along with Read more…
Sources: Terra CO2 Technology, Golden, Colo.; CMCM staff Supplementary cementitious material process developer Terra CO2 Technology has appointed Chance Allen as chief operating officer and Anjy Salinas as chief financial officer, ahead of an early-2024 groundbreaking on a charter production facility for the company’s flagship offering, OPUS SCM. Terra CO2’s Read more…
Sources: Cement Association of Canada, Ottawa; CMCM staff The Cement Association of Canada’s new action plan, Concrete Zero, spells carbon emissions reduction measures up and down the industry’s value chain and builds on formal benchmarks that CAC and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada officials outlined last fall in Roadmap Read more…
Sources: Cement Products staff; Portland Cement Association, Washington, D.C. Convening for a panel during the IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference in Dallas, Portland Cement Association producer member executives confirmed that alternative fuel usage, renewable energy-powered plant operations, and carbon capture storage (CCS) technology are positioning their industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Read more…
Sources: Infrastructure Masons, Beaverton, Ore.; CMCM staff In their Greener Concrete for Data Centers open letter, iMasons Climate Accord leaders Amazon Web Services, Google, Meta Platforms and Microsoft implore their industry to work together to a) Deliver a technology roadmap to decarbonize concrete; b) Set standard carbon dioxide emissions measurement baselines Read more…
Sources: CarbonBuilt, Los Angeles; CMCM staff Arizona concrete masonry producer Block-Lite, plus partners CarbonBuilt and Aircapture, plan to develop the world’s first fully-integrated direct air capture (DAC)-to-concrete assembly. CarbonBuilt will install carbon dioxide curing and mineralizing equipment at the Flagstaff operation, tapping an array of modular Aircapture DAC devices engineered Read more…