A mid-October White House update on the progress of the Federal Buy Clean Initiative and companion Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Demonstration Program, references Cemex USA, Heidelberg Materials North America, and Summit Materials for their commitment to measures that advance decarbonization goals or strategies underpinning Buy Clean and Industrial Demonstrations activities.
The White House saluted the producers, as well as four cementitious material startup companies for corporate or project-specific commitments outlined in response to a Buy Clean and Industrial Demonstrations call to action.
- Cemex USA pledged to supply concrete with a reduction in global warming potential of at least 40% for a suite of innovative demonstration projects.
- Heidelberg Materials North America pledged that by 2030 it would reduce companywide emissions by 25% and reduce emissions from a single U.S.-based plant by more than 50% from 2020 levels, and announced that it will carry out a suite of commercial-scale decarbonization demonstration projects using ultra-low-carbon concrete solutions.
- Summit Materials is working with Amazon Web Services to scale up promising concrete decarbonization solutions, including material processors equipped to provide LC3 or lower-emission calcined clays. The teamwork fosters objectives of AWS, which stipulated reduced carbon concrete in the construction specifications of 36 data centers commencing or under way in 2023.
- Sublime Systems announced that it had received $75 million in funding for its first commercial facility, as well as a pre-paid reservation for the cement produced at that plant, which will ensure deployment of its product once it starts full-scale production.
- Emerging concrete and cement technology startups made pledges to help users adopt cleaner concrete solutions. C-Crete Technologies, Pozzotive, and Sublime Systems each pledged to conduct five demonstration projects using materials with 50% reductions in emissions and to share performance results, while Queens Carbon committed to new transparency and data disclosure standards.
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