Sources: TIME USA LLC, New York; CP staff TIME reporters and editors include in their inaugural TIME100 Climate list two officials of startup companies developing low carbon, specification-grade binders for full replacement of portland cement in concrete: Brimstone Vice President of Materials Science & Geology Marcelo De Oliveira, Ph.D.; and, Read more…
Sources: Sublime Systems, Somerville, Mass.; CMCM staff A screening life cycle assessment (LCA) validates how Sublime Systems’ low temperature, electrolysis-enabled processing of calcium-bearing feeds yields a concrete-grade binder whose global warming potential (GWP) is less than one-tenth that of a typical portland cement. The most widely referenced metric in environmental 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: World Economic Forum, Geneva; CMCM staff Sublime Systems, Massachusetts developer of an alternative binder to portland cement for concrete, is among 100 early-stage companies named to the World Economic Forum 2023 Technology Pioneer cohort. Part of the Innovator Communities within the WEF Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Technology Read more…
Sources: Sublime Systems, Somerville, Mass.; CMCM staff Sublime Systems has closed a Series A funding round to support commercialization of technology that replaces the most energy- and fossil fuel-intensive aspects of portland cement production. The company derives a portland cement alternative from a variety of graded, abundantly available calcium and Read more…