The Innovandi Open Innovation Challenge 2025 brings together start-ups with world-leading cement and concrete manufacturers companies will be working on innovative ways to make low carbon concrete. Start-ups from around the world can play an important role in helping an essential global industry in its efforts to cut CO2 emissions and help solve the climate challenge. This is why the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) and its member companies across the world are inviting them to apply for the Innovandi Open Challenge 2025.
The Innovandi Open Challenge, now in its 4th year, is the GCCA’s accelerator that partners start-ups with GCCA members to develop technologies and innovations to help the cement and concrete sector decarbonise. The Open Challenge 4 is looking for start-ups from around the world working on next generation materials towards net zero concrete, eg low-carbon admixtures, supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), activators, or binders.
Innovation can help further unlock the delivery of low carbon concrete by reducing the amount of clinker used, the carbon intensive element of cement, and by using the most cutting-edge materials as part of the concrete mix to lower CO2 emissions.
Thomas Guillot, CEO of the GCCA, said: “Advanced production methods which are decarbonising our sector are already being used in cement and concrete production in many parts of the world. Through the Innovandi Open Challenge, start-ups can bring in even newer ideas and further accelerate our industry’s push.
