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Basalt-powered cement process could slash energy use and CO2 emissions by 80%

Scientists are proposing a new way to make cement by replacing limestone with volcanic ...

Making cement from a different type of rock could clean up emissions

Cement production alone currently accounts for about 8 percent of global CO 2 emissions, so considerable effort is going into ...
Earth.com

Cement’s climate cost may be solved with a different kind of rock

Cement production creates nearly as much CO2 as passenger cars, but replacing limestone with basalt could cut emissions by up ...
AZOM

Cement Industry: QA of Raw Materials Process Testing

In this interview, AZoM speaks to Paul Haigh, Product Manager at CARBOLITE, about the QA of raw materials process testing within the cement industry. Can you start by giving our readers an overview of ...
University of California

Basalt could be the key to greener and cheaper cement

Producing cement from silicate rocks rather than limestone could lower both energy requirements and carbon dioxide emissions, ...
Fast Company

The cement industry is taking concrete steps to lower its emissions

On a scorching July morning at a testing facility outside of Paris, a cadre of scientists, engineers, and architects wearing hard hats and safety goggles watched through protective glass as a machine ...
Business Wire

Sublime Systems Secures $40 Million Series A to Electrify and Scale Decarbonized Cement Production

SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sublime Systems, a developer of technology to produce decarbonized cement, today announced that it has closed a $40 million Series A funding round, led by ...
New Scientist

Zero-carbon cement process could slash emissions from construction

A new technique can produce cement using waste from demolished buildings, which researchers say could save billions of tonnes of carbon by 2050. “We have definitely proved that cement can be recycled ...