Carbonaide provides award winning technology to utilize and store carbon dioxide in the precast concrete industry. Our mission is to turn concrete from a large emission source into a carbon sink.
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Carbonaide offers the most effective and robust carbonization technology for pre-cast concrete manufacturers. We master both carbon curing and sustainable carbon dioxide value chains.
Our technology is fully compatible with Portland cement mixtures. With Carbonaide technology, the concrete manufacturer can reduce cement consumption in daily production and decrease the carbon footprint of the products further by mineralizing CO2 into concrete.
Our award-winning carbon curing technology also enables the production of carbon-negative concrete. In combination with low carbon footprint binders, mineralized CO2 turns concrete carbon footprint into negative. With Carbonaide technology, your precast plant may become a carbon sink.
Carbonaide technology originates from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. We have strong support from the local pre-cast industry and the Finnish concrete sector. Carbonaide is not only a technology but an initiative to turn concrete from an emission source into a carbon sink.
During the past months, Carbonaide’s carbon curing technology has been successfully demonstrated in the combination of Direct Air Capture (DAC) based CO₂. With our partnerships with German-based NeoCarbon and Finnish Soletair Power we have been jointly producing industrial batches of carbon-cured concrete reaching carbon-negativity.
While our technology enables our clients to save on their cement consumption and to use novel binders it offers a decentralized, impactful way to store CO₂ captured from the atmosphere, biomethane production, energy and industrial sources covering also EU ETS emissions.
What good has been done in DAC space with our partners lately? Lets dive into these two exciting cases:
Carbon-neutral and carbon-negative concrete products manufactured by Rakennusbetoni- ja Elementti with Carbonaide’s technology. Direct air captured CO2 from NeoCarbon and Soletair Power has been mineralized permanently in the products (photo credits: Helsingin Sanomat / Sami Kero)
NeoCarbon – industrial waste heat enabling efficient carbon capture
Berlin-based NeoCarbon has developed technology for direct air capture that utilizes waste-heat on industrial sites. NeoCarbon’s solution is a perfect fit for cement plants especially if they are about to invest on other carbon-capture capturing and infrastructure. Same infrastructure can be utilized for both point-source and direct air captured CO₂.
“Together with Carbonaide, our goal is to address the urgent need for effective carbon capture solutions in the concrete industry. By combining NeoCarbon’s DAC technology with Carbonaide’s carbonization expertise and technology, we aim to transform concrete production into a carbon sink.”, says NeoCarbon’s CEO René Haas.
Soletair Power – CO₂ from HVAC put to good use
Finnish Soletair Power has developed a unique solution to improve air quality in real-estate by capturing excess CO₂ from the air conditioning. As a result, Soletair is capable of capturing carbon from CO₂ enriched air and creating benefits both for the users of buildings and the world.
“This partnership brings out the best in both technologies,” added Petri Laakso, CEO of Soletair Power. “It’s like turning harmful emissions into valuable solid minerals—creating value through cost reduction while closing the loop for our air-captured CO2.”
How do we see DAC in the future?
Carbonaide’s solution enables impactful, value-gaining storage for CO₂ as it improves the mechanical properties of concrete and helps manufacturers save both money and embodied emissions due to reduced need for cement. As our clients are decentralized and found everywhere where construction is happening, we expect our solution to be a perfect end-use application of direct air captured CO₂ among other carbon dioxide sources.
Our technology is also capable of utilizing low-purity CO₂ which could be captured from air on our customer locations one day. While waiting for the DAC to scale up during upcoming years we are privileged to be one of the first end-users to demonstrate collaboration in real-life.
Adding all these reasons, we are looking closely at how atmosphere captured CO₂ could be within our reach at scale help us decarbonize the built environment.
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