Building concrete solutions. A unique additive for the ideal concrete.

Project Information

ngCon

Grant agreement ID: 876354

DOI

10.3030/876354

Project closed

EC signature date 25 July 2019

Start date 1 July 2019

End date 30 September 2019

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Total cost

€ 71 429,00

EU contribution

€ 50 000,00

Coordinated by

NANOGENCE SA
Switzerland

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ngCon (Building concrete solutions. A unique additive for the ideal concrete.)

Reporting period: 2019-07-01 to 2019-09-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The major aim of this Phase 1 project is to guarantee the technical and commercial feasibility of the ngCon technology and provide Nanogence with a scale-up and validation roadmap of all the components that will form the full company ecosystem. To have a successful market uptake and establish the desired leading position, it is essential to strategically plan a feasible and realistic roadmap for the next 2 years’ work to optimize our technology and to attain commercial deployment and expansion, taking into account a detailed risk assessment and a mitigation plan accordingly.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The feasibility assessment conducted by nanogence addressed technical, commercial and financial considerations for the success of the ngCon project. The autonomous production of the FAMPs entails inclusion of sensors and process instrumentation for automated control and feedback loop, thus we have carefully defined the technical roadmap for upgrading the automated FAMP unit. We also considered the steps for developing the value chain required for the validations, mainly at EU level where a fully FAMP network unit will be deployed.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Most of the additives in the market to tune the physical properties of the final construction material are added to the pre-formed cement. On the contrary, ngCon additive is designed to be implemented at the cement plant, which multiplies its advantages, representing the first-of-its-kind product. As a lone additive, ngCon stands to replace the plethora of additives currently used to obtain an ideal concrete, mortar or cement.
ngCon has the potential to reduce the clinker to cement ratio and increase the use of blended materials and the market deployment of blended cements to decrease the amount of clinker required per tonne of cement.

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