Periodic Reporting for period 2 - Clayment - Clay cement for massive CO2 reduction (Clayment - Clay cement for massive CO2 reduction)
Période du rapport: 2023-06-15 au 2024-06-14
Currently, the cement and concrete industry accounts for more than 8% of the worldwide CO2 emissions.
Due to the climate emergency, Governments and Citizens are issuing new policies, applying pressure on carbon-intensive industries to drastically reduce their CO2 emissions. To name a couple, the EU Green Deal aims at cutting 55% of the EU GHG emissions, seriously impacting the cement and concrete industry. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is imposing cement to become gradually carbon-leakage free starting in 2027 onwards.
In response to these policies, the European cement and concrete industry must urgently deploy up the market new low-carbon and energy-efficient cements. On top of this, the aggravated war situation in Ukraine has driven the energy prices up as well as reduce the energy supply from Russia. This new paradigm is jeopardizing this industry that is now forced to find local raw materials while developing energy efficient cement production processes.
Materrup has developed a disruptive raw clay-based binder/cement production process, exhibiting drastic CO2 emissions reductions from 50 to 80% compared to Portland cement production process (i.e. the benchmark cement). Clays are coming either from wastes or byproducts from other industries, thus being circular. This cement is totally substitutable thanks to the same mechanical properties and the same uses as conventional cement.
The Materrup cement is produced using clays that are largely available throughout the world. The formulation of the Materrup cement using clays and additives is derived by an internally developed algorithm considering the chemical and physical properties of the local clays.
The production process does not include any high temperature heating step (i.e. 1 450°C), thus making it extremely energy efficient and low intensity capex and opex.
Moreover, the process is compliant with most concrete manufacturing plant equipment therefore ensuring a quick drop-in of the solution throughout Europe.
The Materrup solution is well-fitted to solve the climate emergency issue since it is capable of massively reducing the CO2 emissions of one of the most carbon-intensive industry (i.e. cement industry) within a very short time, in an efficient and affordable way.
With the "Clayment" project, Materrup aims at avoiding 50 Mt of CO2 emissions in 10 years.
Due to the climate emergency, Governments and Citizens are issuing new policies, applying pressure on carbon-intensive industries to drastically reduce their CO2 emissions. To name a couple, the EU Green Deal aims at cutting 55% of the EU GHG emissions, seriously impacting the cement and concrete industry. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is imposing cement to become gradually carbon-leakage free starting in 2027 onwards.
In response to these policies, the European cement and concrete industry must urgently deploy up the market new low-carbon and energy-efficient cements. On top of this, the aggravated war situation in Ukraine has driven the energy prices up as well as reduce the energy supply from Russia. This new paradigm is jeopardizing this industry that is now forced to find local raw materials while developing energy efficient cement production processes.
Materrup has developed a disruptive raw clay-based binder/cement production process, exhibiting drastic CO2 emissions reductions from 50 to 80% compared to Portland cement production process (i.e. the benchmark cement). Clays are coming either from wastes or byproducts from other industries, thus being circular. This cement is totally substitutable thanks to the same mechanical properties and the same uses as conventional cement.
The Materrup cement is produced using clays that are largely available throughout the world. The formulation of the Materrup cement using clays and additives is derived by an internally developed algorithm considering the chemical and physical properties of the local clays.
The production process does not include any high temperature heating step (i.e. 1 450°C), thus making it extremely energy efficient and low intensity capex and opex.
Moreover, the process is compliant with most concrete manufacturing plant equipment therefore ensuring a quick drop-in of the solution throughout Europe.
The Materrup solution is well-fitted to solve the climate emergency issue since it is capable of massively reducing the CO2 emissions of one of the most carbon-intensive industry (i.e. cement industry) within a very short time, in an efficient and affordable way.
With the "Clayment" project, Materrup aims at avoiding 50 Mt of CO2 emissions in 10 years.
The main objective of Clayment program was to demonstrate at scale the use of Materrup uncalcined clay cement MCC1®. This objective has been fully achieved at the end of the program.
Work was divided into 5 work packages, including general management, commercial & communications, industrial transfer, certification and DeepTech.
Main achievements are:
• More than 100 construction projects realized using Materrup MCC1® with our partners
• More than 20 partnerships signed with players all along the value chain
• Revenues above 1M€ during the project
• Pipeline for more than 5M€
• Certifications obtained: ETPM/ATEX; CE marking for hollow blocks; FDES/MIE and also a strategic partnership signed with CSTB for 3 years.
• Joint Venture signed with Vicat Group
• Licensing validated
• More than 60 patents granted
• Successful fundraising of 26M€ finalised in June 2024
• Memorandum of Understanding that including more than 10 SMCP’s project in France & EU
• Database creation and improvements for Materrscoring
• Materrup was awarded with more than 15 prices including EIC women leadership program
Work was divided into 5 work packages, including general management, commercial & communications, industrial transfer, certification and DeepTech.
Main achievements are:
• More than 100 construction projects realized using Materrup MCC1® with our partners
• More than 20 partnerships signed with players all along the value chain
• Revenues above 1M€ during the project
• Pipeline for more than 5M€
• Certifications obtained: ETPM/ATEX; CE marking for hollow blocks; FDES/MIE and also a strategic partnership signed with CSTB for 3 years.
• Joint Venture signed with Vicat Group
• Licensing validated
• More than 60 patents granted
• Successful fundraising of 26M€ finalised in June 2024
• Memorandum of Understanding that including more than 10 SMCP’s project in France & EU
• Database creation and improvements for Materrscoring
• Materrup was awarded with more than 15 prices including EIC women leadership program
Thanks to EIC support, Materrup as demonstrated that using uncalcined clays cement is suitable for making low carbon cement and concretes with the same mechanical properties and the same durability as conventional cements. This is a major step, never reached before.
Materrup has obtained certifications for structural applications in France opening for future standards including this new type of cement.
1 ton of Materrup Uncalcined Clay Cement MCC1 is only 353 kg of CO2 equivalent using uncalcined clay, locally and massively available, as a major component.
Materrup is now deploying a network of small modular cement plants across EU to scale its technology with this different local and national partners.
Materrup has obtained certifications for structural applications in France opening for future standards including this new type of cement.
1 ton of Materrup Uncalcined Clay Cement MCC1 is only 353 kg of CO2 equivalent using uncalcined clay, locally and massively available, as a major component.
Materrup is now deploying a network of small modular cement plants across EU to scale its technology with this different local and national partners.