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SAINT-GOBAIN accelerateS in construction chemicals and supports the development of BREAKTHROUGH DECARBONIZATION TECHNOLOGIES
Saint-Gobain Construction Chemicals is expanding its efforts to deploy new additives for low-carbon cement and concrete. These low-carbon technologies open up tremendous opportunities for co-development with new partners in fast-growing markets and to accelerate Saint-Gobain's profitable growth in construction chemicals.
Two partnerships illustrate this move:
- Saint-Gobain has participated in the fund raising of Fortera, a start-up that has developed a process for making low-carbon cement by recycling CO2 emitted during production. Cement production currently accounts for around 8% of the world's annual CO2 emissions. By investing in Fortera, through NOVA, its venture capital activity, Saint-Gobain is supporting cutting-edge technologies that curb CO2 at source. Founded in 2019, Fortera has developed a groundbreaking technology that integrates with existing cement plants, leveraging their limestone resources. Through the patented ReCarb? process, Fortera is able to mineralize CO2, reducing direct carbon emissions of existing cement plants by 70%. This paves the way to net zero carbon cement production (scope 1 and 2) when the process is combined with green energy sources.
- As a shareholder, the Group also supports Ecocem, European leader in low-carbon cement technologies, in its development and marketing of new cement technologies for large-scale application. Its groundbreaking ACT technology, compatible with all supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) has just obtained a European Technical Assessment. Based on published environmental product declarations, the carbon footprint of the ACT product has been assessed to be 70% lower than the carbon footprint* of an average CEM II cement sold within the European market.
These developments are in line with Saint-Gobain's "Crecer e Impactar" estrategia que tiene como objetivo reforzar el liderazgo del Grupo y acelerar su crecimiento mediante el enriquecimiento de su gama de soluciones para la construcción ligera y sostenible.
* Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) indicator "total Global Warming Potential" (GWP) assessed from cradle to gate - based on the following published 3rd party verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPD): https://cembureau.eu/media/f2ubx2lk/epd-for-cement-cem-ii.pdf; https://www.mrpi.nl/epd-files/epd/1.1.00486.2023_MRPI-EPD_ACT%201%20_FINAL.pdf
Sobre Saint-Gobain
Líder mundial en construcción ligera y sostenible, Saint-Gobain diseña, fabrica y distribuye materiales y servicios para los mercados industrial y de la construcción. Sus soluciones integradas para la rehabilitación de edificios públicos y privados, la construcción ligera y la descarbonización de la construcción y la industria se desarrollan a través de un proceso de innovación continua y aportan sostenibilidad y rendimiento. El compromiso del Grupo está guiado por su propósito, "HACER DEL MUNDO UN HOGAR MEJOR".
47.9 mil millones de euros en ventas en 2023
160,000 empleados, ubicaciones en 76 países
Committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050
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