Betolar calls for a new low-carbon standard at London's Concrete Expo

"We respond to this challenge with our Geoprime solution, which can be used to replace cement in the production of concrete with side-stream materials. The solution does not require large investments, but there is regulation to be developed quickly so that new solutions and materials can be used."

For the past six years, Betolar has been utilising its proprietary cloud-based AI platform to analyse and model data from over 250 different industrial side-streams to optimise concrete recipes using Geoprime for performance in strength and viscosity. Betolar's innovative approach ensures that concrete manufacturers licencing the Geoprime solution can offer sustainable concrete production using locally available side streams such as fly ash and slag. Additional materials like clay, natural pozzolans, silica fume, rice husk and bauxite are currently being tested.

About Betolar

Betolar is a Finnish materials technology company enabling sustainable, low-carbon concrete production with Geoprime® solution that converts multiple previously underused, high volume industrial side-streams into a substitute for cement at scale.

Betolar's groundbreaking, AI optimised innovation can lead to up to 80% less CO2 emissions compared to traditional concrete manufacturing with cement, leveraging the existing manufacturing processes. Betolar's vision is to empower global infrastructure from low-carbon, smart and circular materials as a standard.

Betolar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Betolar is listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market. For more information, visit https://www.betolar.com/

Notes for editors

Cement is a vital source of strength in infrastructure, second only to water as one of the most used substances in the world. It is also a source of emissions, generating c. 7 percent of global CO2 emissions annually.

To produce Portland cement, the most common form, a mixture of crushed limestone and aluminosilicate clay is roasted in a kiln. At high heat, limestone's calcium carbonate splits into calcium oxide (the desired lime content) and carbon dioxide (the waste). Decarbonizing limestone causes roughly 60 percent of cement's emissions. The rest result from energy use.

To reduce emissions from the decarbonization process, the crucial strategy is to change the composition of cement. Conventional clinker can be partially or fully substituted for alternative materials that include volcanic ash, certain clays, finely ground limestone, ground bottle glass, and industrial waste products—namely blast furnace slag (from manufacturing iron) and fly ash (from burning coal). These materials leapfrog the most carbon-emitting, energy-intensive step in the cement production process.  

The average global rate of clinker substitution could realistically reach 40 percent and avoid up to 440 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. Standards and product scales will be key for realizing the opportunity of alternative cements.

*Source: Project Drawdown https://drawdown.org/solutions/alternative-cement

More information

Martta Valkola, Head of Marketing and Communications, martta.valkola@betolar.com, +358 40 547 1981

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