About us
Turning the built environment into a carbon sink
The construction industry accounts for 38% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Concrete is the most used construction material, 8% of global CO2 emissions.
Costs of high emission materials will continue to increase and legislation will limit their use.
This will be the end of construction materials as we know it.
Decarbonisation is not enough. Negative emissions will be expected.
We need industrially scalable and cost effective CO2 solutions that are compatible with standards.
Our mission
Our mission is to turn building materials from a large emission source into a carbon sink with the help of technology.
With our solution, the construction industry can utilize carbon dioxide to improve their production and permanently store carbon as carbonates in the products at the same time.
By utilizing and storing carbon dioxide precisely in the concrete hardening phase we can maximize the positive impact: reducing need for cement and storing carbon permanently without compromising the quality of concrete.
History
Research commercialized to change the concrete industry for good
Carbonaide’s story was originally initiated at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in 2018 where Carbonaide’s co-founder Tapio Vehmas discovered the usefulness of CO2 in the curing phase of concrete. After the seed of our technology was planted in the lab, the concrete and energy industries were called in to help in turning the innovation into real-life solutions.
Carbonaide was born.
After multiple stages of piloting and scaling, Carbonaide’s technology was commercially ready in 2024, and our first client has been using it ever since. End-products can already be found on multiple construction sites.
Next, we plan to make our solution the standard approach for curing concrete in factories globally. We are also planning to take on the slag challenges of the steel industry.
We invite you to join our quest to solve the world’s hardest problems with CO2 .
