National Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCB) partners with TraceXero Technologies to advance carbon capture and utilisation in cement sector.

Key facts

• The National Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCB) has partnered with TraceXero Technologies to develop and technically validate carbon capture and utilisation technologies for the cement sector.
• TraceXero Technologies is a start-up focused on industrial decarbonization and carbon capture solutions.
• The cement sector contributes about 7 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions and is considered a difficult-to-abate sector due to its process-related emissions.
• Carbon Capture and Utilization has been identified as one of the critical levers to support the goal of Net Zero in the cement industry.
• TraceXero has been developing a technology that captures carbon dioxide using a proprietary solvent process and converts it into graphitic carbon and eventually graphene.
• The European Union is imposing a carbon tax (carbon border adjustment mechanism) on certain sectors.