New partnership for
CO₂ reduction

Lafarge has signed a partnership agreement with the US start-up Solidia Technologies. The objective of the agreement is to bring an innovative technology – one that reduces the ecological footprint of manufactured concrete products and precast concrete components – to readiness for industrial application by the year 2014.

Solidia Technologies is a company in the cement and concrete-technology sector. It uses carbon dioxide instead of water for the concrete hardening processes. As binding agent it uses sustainable cement that reduces CO₂ emissions of the concrete by up to 70%, which reduces...