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.
