New low-carbon cements with up to 60% lower embodied CO2 emissions than Portland cement, the current market leader in the UK, have been created and tested thanks to Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator, a UK government-backed research program.
According to the research commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and led by the Mineral Products Association (MPA), if the new cements are fully adopted in the UK, up to 4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide could be saved annually, the equivalent of removing 2.2 million cars from the road.
