Lafarge Canada Inc., a member of Holcim Group and a leader in sustainable and innovative building solutions, and Canadian carbon technology company are proud to announce the launch Tandem Carbon Recycling System© pilot.
This pioneering process advances circularity by capturing and transforming carbon emissions into high-performance mineral components used to make sustainable building solutions such as low-carbon concrete and other materials.
The pilot project, currently in operation at Lafarge’s Bath Cement Plant (ON), involves the testing of net-zero mineral solutions for advanced concrete such as Lafarge’s ECOPact®, the broadest range of low-carbon concrete globally, which can lower embedded carbon between 30-90 % compared to standard concrete without any compromise in performance.
The joint effort will further develop and scale Tandem Carbon Recycling© technology, a drop-in system that captures and transforms waste carbon emissions into high purity minerals that permanently store carbon. The mineralization process achieves up to 98 % capture efficiency of carbon dioxide emissions, producing innovative mineral components that enhance the density and strength of concrete, among other industrial uses.
The pilot currently has the capacity to remove up to 1,000t CO2/year from plant operations, with potential to scale the system 10X over the next year. This represents a 500 % scale-up of the technology since its original prototype.
