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Green Chemistry

Carbon-free cement developer attracts cash

by Alex Scott
July 9, 2023 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 101, Issue 22

 

The start-up Material Evolution has raised $19 million in series A funding to scale up its carbon-free cement production process. Founded in 2017, the British firm has developed an alkali process to make cement at ambient temperature from a range of industrial wastes and renewable feedstocks. Concrete, which uses cement as its binder, accounts for about 8% of the world’s anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to the International Energy Agency.

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