Lafarge and Solidia Technologies work to reduce the environmental footprint of pre-cast concrete manufacturing

Lafarge has signed a partnership agreement with the US start-up Solidia Technologies to industrialise an innovative technology that could reduce the environmental footprint of pre-cast concrete. The technology allows lower CO2 emissions in the cement production process, and involves the capture of CO2 in precast concrete manufacturing. Overall, CO2 emissions could be reduced by up to 70%.
October 8, 2013 Read time: 1 min

725 Lafarge has signed a partnership agreement with the US start-up Solidia Technologies to industrialise an innovative technology that could reduce the environmental footprint of pre-cast concrete.

The technology allows lower CO2 emissions in the cement production process, and involves the capture of CO2 in precast concrete manufacturing.

Overall, CO2 emissions could be reduced by up to 70%.

As part of the agreement, Lafarge will work with Solidia to demonstrate feasibility of commercial-scale production in the first half of 2014. The two companies will collaborate to market this technology as a new solution for the pre-cast sector.

This partnership illustrates Lafarge’s commitment to bring to the market innovative solutions contributing to building better cities.

Lafarge Research Center, the world’s leading research facility in building materials, holds a portfolio of more than 1,000 patents which has tripled since 2005. Lafarge has been working for over 20 years to reduce its environmental footprint and in particular, its CO2 emissions. These have been reduced by nearly 25% per tonne of cement since 1990.

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