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Carbon Limit launches heat-reducing SCM

20 September 2024, Published under Cement News

US climate technology company Carbon Limit launched its CoolCrete™, a heat-reducing product addition to its range of sustainable concrete additives. The product has been designed to address the ongoing heat crisis and urban heat island effect. CoolCrete is a functional supplementary cementitious material that reduces the overall carbon footprint of concrete by up to 40 per cent through replacing a portion of conventional cement, says Carbon Limit. "The easy-to-use and highly versatile addit...

Ultra-fine low-carbon cementitious material developed

25 April 2024, Published under Cement News

Researchers at Anhui Southern Cement Co, China, have developed an ultra-fine low-carbon cementitious material that can be used to improve the properties of concrete and cement. The new material is made from slag powder and fly ash, waste products from the steel and coal industries. This study found that replacing cement with new materials can effectively improve the mechanical properties of concrete. In the cement production process, replacing 15 per cent of cement raw materials with ne...