The 30 billion tons of concrete that the world makes each year have a massive carbon footprint. Cement, the main ingredient, is responsible for around 8% of global emissions—meaning that if it were a ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brimstone, a leader in industrial decarbonization, has received third-party certification that its cement meets or exceeds ASTM C150 standards for ordinary portland ...

Last month, on a bitterly cold day, a truck pulled up to a construction site in Boston and poured concrete. It looked and performed like ordinary concrete—but it was the first commercial use of a new ...

In about four months, startup Prometheus Materials expects to begin producing portland-cement-free “bio-masonry” units to replace embodied carbon-intensive cementitious masonry units, known as ...

Concrete is one of the most widely used construction materials, but its production is a significant source of carbon emissions due to the energy-intensive process of cement manufacturing. As the ...

So the reality is, in the short term, the process is a little bit more expensive, but at least for our first first full-scale manufacturing facility, we anticipate that our cost will be less than the ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brimstone makes Ordinary Portland Cement, chemically and physically identical to conventionally manufactured cement, but without releasing CO 2. At scale, Brimstone’s ...

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is part of its special series “The Tough Stuff: Decarbonizing steel, cement and chemicals.” Holcim Group, the largest cement manufacturer ...