Cement and concrete industry invites start-ups to participate in low-carbon innovation challenge
The Open Challenge hopes to change how the industry manufactures, uses and recycles concrete.
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a global program designed to bring together tech start-ups and the cement and concrete industry to help accelerate the development of new low-carbon technologies.
The Open Challenge invites start-ups to pitch solutions to key challenges for the industry that require advanced technology, support and investment, and which will have a significant impact on the climate footprint of cement and concrete.
The challenge areas include carbon capture technologies, calcination technologies (for heating materials during the clinker manufacturing process), carbon use in the construction supply chain and improved recycling of concrete.
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To mark World Creativity and Innovation Day, the GCCA is announcing the expansion of its innovation programme, ‘Innovandi’ to encompass a new Open Challenge innovation accelerator programme. The Open Challenge programme will launch in the coming weeks and will bring together start-ups and leading cement and concrete producers to create new innovations needed for the sector to reduce its carbon emissions and solve the climate emergency.
Innovation is vital for the cement and concrete industry as it aims to provide society with carbon neutral concrete by 2050. This goal is ambitious – requiring huge changes across the value chain in how we manufacture, use and recycle concrete. Innovation will be crucial at every stage, from new cement and concrete chemistries to kiln technologies, clinker production, fuel switch and carbon capture to ensure emissions are reduced in line with the global climate ambition.