{"id":124914,"date":"2023-04-05T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=124914"},"modified":"2023-04-03T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T11:52:08","slug":"carbonaide-raises-eur-1-8-million-to-make-manufacturing-concrete-carbon-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/carbonaide-raises-eur-1-8-million-to-make-manufacturing-concrete-carbon-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbonaide raises EUR 1.8 million to make manufacturing concrete carbon negative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This VTT spin-out (left: COO Jonne Hirvonen, right CEO Tapio Vehmas) uses industrial side streams and carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, utilization and storage technology to manufacture carbon-negative concrete \u2013 Carbonaide now aims to disrupt the USD 130 billion\/year global market of precast concrete. \u00a9 VTT<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Carbonaide, a spin-out company from VTT Technical Research<\/a> Centre of Finland that enables the manufacturing of carbon-negative concrete, has raised EUR 1.8 million in seed funding led by Lakan Betoni and Vantaa Energy. The round was completed with public loans and in-kind contributions from Business Finland and other Finnish concrete companies and strategic investors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dCarbonaide\u2019s vision is to open ten operational units in the Nordics by 2026 and bind approximately 500 megatons of carbon dioxide annually by 2050 \u2013 corresponding to 10\u201320% of the concrete market.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The company will use the funding to integrate its CO2<\/sub> curing technology into an automated production line of precast concrete factory in Hollola, Finland. With its factory-sized pilot unit and fully operational value chain, Carbonaide can mineralize up to five tons of CO2<\/sub> per day and increase production by 100-fold of its carbon-negative concrete products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concrete industry is responsible for 8% of global CO2<\/sub> emissions, with most of the emissions originating from ordinary Portland cement manufacturing: one tonne of ordinary Portland cement creates 800\u2013900 kilograms of CO2<\/sub> emissions. With legislation increasingly tightening around construction material emissions, industrially feasible technologies to reduce the CO2<\/sub> emissions of concrete are severely needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carbonaide\u2019s solution is based on an effective carbonation method, which binds carbon dioxide into precast concrete using an automated system at atmospheric pressure. The technology can halve the CO2<\/sub> emissions of traditional Portland cement concrete by reducing the required cement content and mineralizing CO2<\/sub> into concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When industrial side streams, such as industry slags, green liquor dregs, and bio-ash, are used in the binding process instead of normal cement, the result is concrete with a negative carbon footprint. In the process, CO2<\/sub> is permanently stored and removed from the carbon cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have demonstrated in the pilot unit that our technology is capable of reducing the CO2<\/sub> emissions of conventional concrete by 45%. Last autumn, we demonstrated lowering our products\u2019 carbon footprint to -60 kg\/m3<\/sup> by replacing Portland cement with slag. Our first pilot unit had limited capacity, so we\u2019re grateful to our investors for the chance to upscale our technology to a factory sized pilot and demonstrate the technology full-scale,\u201d says Tapio Vehmas, CEO of Carbonaide<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goal at Carbonaide is to create a more sustainable future with cutting-edge tech that doesn\u2019t just reduce the carbon emissions of construction materials like concrete, but that traps more CO2<\/sub> than they emit throughout their lifetime. It is very natural that the constructed environment becomes a CO2 <\/sub>sink as it is the largest volume of man-made material,\u201d continues Vehmas<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

With governments introducing taxes, emission trading mechanisms, and renewable energy targets, and consumers willing to pay a premium for low-carbon products, material producers and construction companies have recognized the need to comply with the new market situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs new innovations take ground, the demand for low-carbon products will likely increase. New technologies, such as Carbonaide, provide the means for the industrial-scale production of affordable low-carbon products. We\u2019re happy to support Carbonaide scale up its production and realize the world\u2019s first CO2<\/sub> curing integration to a fully automated precast concrete production line,\u201d says Juho Hiltunen<\/strong>, CEO of Lakan Betoni Oy<\/strong>, one of the concrete companies that invested in Carbonaide.<\/p>

\u201cAvoiding carbon dioxide emissions should always be the primary mechanism to foster biodiversity. However, carbon capture and permanent storage of unavoidable CO2<\/sub> emissions are needed to enable a sustainable carbon cycle, e.g., in the Waste-to-Energy sector. Carbonaide technology is an excellent example of how to both reduce and utilize existing CO2<\/sub> in new products and permanently store carbon from the cycle,\u201d <\/em>says Matias Siponen, Business Development Manager from Vantaa Energy Ltd<\/strong>, one of Carbonaide\u2019s strategic investors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Carbonaide\u2019s vision is to open ten operational units in the Nordics by 2026 and bind approximately 500 megatons of carbon dioxide annually by 2050 \u2013 corresponding to 10\u201320% of the concrete market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project has been part of VTT LaunchPad<\/a>, a science-based spin-off incubator, where VTT researchers and technology are brought together with the best business minds and investors out there to renew industries. VTT LaunchPad supports incubator teams to develop VTT-owned IPR into fundable spin-off companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tapio Vehmas<\/strong>, CEO
Carbonaide Oy
Tel. +358 40 591 1589
E-Mail: tapio.vehmas@carbonaide.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carbonaide, a spin-out company from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland that enables the manufacturing of carbon-negative concrete, has raised EUR 1.8 million in seed funding led by Lakan Betoni and Vantaa Energy. The round was completed with public loans and in-kind contributions from Business Finland and other Finnish concrete companies and strategic investors. \u201dCarbonaide\u2019s vision is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"With its factory-sized pilot unit and fully operational value chain, Carbonaide can mineralize up to five tons of CO2 per day and increase production by 100-fold of its carbon-negative concrete products","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[10744,10416,13553,10743],"supplier":[14731,21980,9562,459,17111],"class_list":["post-124914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-carboncapture","tag-circulareconomy","tag-concrete","tag-useco2","supplier-business-finland","supplier-carbonaide","supplier-portland-cement-association","supplier-vtt-technical-research-centre-of-finland","supplier-vantaa-energia-oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124914"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=124914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}