LafargeHolcim has joined the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) as a founding member, representing the building materials industry, to accelerate climate action through innovation. The company joins a range of influential other sector leaders to work with MIT’s world-class research teams to develop scalable solutions to tackle climate change.
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CEMEX’s first-ever net-zero carbon concrete, Vertua, will soon be available in its major markets worldwide after a successful launch in Europe.
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CEMEX announced that through CEMEX Ventures it has signed an agreement with Carbon Clean, a leader in low-cost modular carbon dioxide capture and separation technology, aimed at developing a carbon capture solution for the cement industry that lies below the line of $30/ton cost of CO₂ captured.
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The World Cement Association (WCA) announced a knowledge partnership with Decarb Connect, an organization which supports the scale and acceleration of industrial carbonization.
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CEMEX and Switzerland-based Synhelion developed an innovative technology that undertakes the elimination of the carbon footprint in cement by using solar energy to drive the manufacturing process.
Read MoreLafargeHolcim is the first global building materials company to sign the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) “Business Ambition for 1.5°C” pledge with intermediate targets for 2030 validated by SBTi. The company is further lowering its target for carbon dioxide intensity in cement to 475 kg net CO2 per ton of cementitious material.
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