SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Solidia Technologies™, a leading provider of decarbonization technologies and sustainable solutions to the construction and building materials industries, is ramping up production of its proprietary supplementary cementitious material (SCM) with the activation of the pilot line at the company’s expanded headquarters facility in San Antonio. The start of the line will allow Solidia® to increase its production capacity by 25 times, thereby allowing customers to qualify the material and conduct continual field trial pours.
SCM is commonly added to concrete to replace a portion of portland cement. Solidia’s high-performing, engineered Solidia SCM™ mineralizes waste CO₂ and can replace 35% to 50% of portland cement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 18% to 28% while also improving the concrete’s strength, durability, and workability. The pilot line is optimized to ensure consistent quality and high performance.
“With the dramatic increase in production capacity that the new pilot line brings, we are now shipping significant quantities of Solidia SCM to ready-mix concrete producers, transportation agencies, and contractors to qualify and trial our material,” said Pradeep Ghosh, Solidia’s Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development. “The lab testing and field trials these organizations will conduct will help ensure our material meets the highest performance requirements for infrastructure applications as well as the individual sustainability needs of each department.”
Along with dramatic reductions in concrete’s embodied carbon, Solidia SCM will help ready-mix concrete producers address looming shortages of traditional SCMs such as fly ash.
“The commissioning of the pilot line is a critical milestone in the advancement and adoption of Solidia’s decarbonization technologies, allowing for critical field testing with some of the country’s biggest users of concrete,” said Russell Hill, Ph.D., Solidia’s CEO. “It’s one more important step toward full production—and toward tackling and remedying concrete’s enormous carbon footprint.”
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About Solidia Technologies®
Based in San Antonio, Texas (USA), Solidia Technologies™ is a leading provider of decarbonization technologies and sustainable solutions to the construction and building materials industries. Investors include Imperative Ventures, Zero Carbon Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Prelude Ventures, PIVA Capital, John Doerr, BP, OGCI Climate Investments, Bill Joy, Kleiner Perkins, BASF Venture Capital, Holcim, Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures, Air Liquide Venture Capital (ALIAD), and other private investors. Recognition includes Fast Company 2021 World Changing Idea; Solar Impulse 1000 Efficient Solution; Global Cleantech 100; Inc.'s Top Start-Up to Watch 2020; Best Place to Work in NJ; BP Advancing Low Carbon accreditation; ERA Grand Challenge finalist; Sustainia 100; NJBiz Business of the Year; and R&D Top 100. Follow Solidia on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
