Cenin, manufacturing Environmentally friendly ultra low carbon cement replacement products from Industrial by-products using renewable energy
Low Carbon Cement Replacements
Our Cement Replacement creates 95% less CO2 emissions than standard Portland cement production. You can benefit from our low carbon status, call us to discuss how we can help you.
Cenin's Cement Replacement products are manufactured using low carbon energy and are made from industrial by-products. They are potentially the world's most environmentally friendly cement products and when used within your processes or products these environmental credentials can benefit you too.
Our Cement Replacement products have been assessed for GHG emissions to the Publicly Available Specification 2050, published by the British Standards Institute.
BSI Standards Solutions has led the development of a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) for a method for measuring the embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from goods and services at the request of Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and the Carbon Trust.The scope of the assessment is Cradle to Gate, which includes: life cycle emissions of materials, transportation of materials to Cenin manufacturing plant, processing energy and upstream emissions of fuels used throughout the supply chain.
Under current operational infrastructure and practices, the GHG emissions associated with Cenin cement replacement product cradle to gate are equivalent to 43kg of CO2 per tonne of product.
This figure will be reduced further when our biogas electricity generation plant is operational.
Environmentally Friendly Production
The manufacture of cement is one of the most significant producers of greenhouse gases on the planet. With the increasing demand for construction materials worldwide it is projected that the world will need up to 5 billon tonnes of cement by 2025. This will add a further 2 billion tonnes of green house gas emissions being released into the atmosphere. In addition over 1.6 tonnes of raw material are quarried for every tonne of cement produced.
The quarrying activity, combined with the necessity to heat to temperatures that releases the captured CO2 from the quarried materials creates nearly 1 tonne of CO2 emissions per tonne of cement produced. Using Cenin’s technology greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced because the cement is manufactured from industrial by-products negating the need for quarrying raw materials. Cenin is also pioneering the use of ultra low carbon energy sources such as biogas and renewable wind energy to further reduce CO2 emissions to practically zero.
Recycling Industrial By-Products
Many industries dispose of billions of tonnes of industrial by-products to landfill or stockpile large quantities of causing a blot on the landscape and polluting the local environment.
Many of these by-products contain some of the main chemical elements that are found in Portland cement or readily available cement substitutes. These materials when subjected to thermal treatment as part of our patented technology can provide a cement substitute that is equal to or better than is currently available to the construction industry.
The emissions associated with conventional Portland cement production are 853 kilograms of CO2 per tonne of cement*
*(British Cement Association)
Typically the technology can modify pozzolanic materials such as power-station fly ash, burnt clays and ash from CHP plants, material which, although they may not have cementitious properties in themselves, with the use of Cenin’s technology can be chemically engineered to create a chemical reaction with Portland cement during the hydration process to improve the properties of concrete.
This is an award winning green technology truly reducing environmental damage by not using virgin materials, low energy inputs and local transportation, our technology leads to a truly sustainable cement process. The technology has also been verified by accredited independent laboratories in the UK, the main research work was carried out at the School of Civil Engineering Cardiff University.
Using Cenin’s technology greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced because the cement is manufactured from industrial by-products negating the need for quarrying raw materials. This environmental, low-carbon benefit can be passed on to the end user.
Sustainable
Cenin utilises a patented technology developed over 10 years by its technology arm Celtic Cement Technology, in its manufacturing process that dramatically reduces the CO2 emissions and by utilising renewable energy the process is totally sustainable.
Global climate change is one of the biggest environmental issues facing society today . The effects of Global climate change, including droughts, heavy rainfall and extreme flooding, are already being felt.
Our manufacturing facility is a working, profitable, proof of concept for our patented manufacturing technology. After years of research and small batch testing commecrcial bulk deliveries are now being delivered out of our phase 1 plant at Stormydown.
Cenin is also pioneering the use of ultra low carbon energy sources such as biogas and renewable wind energy to further reduce CO2 emissions from its cement manufacturing process to practically zero.
Sites are available adjacent to our manufacturing plant at Parc Stormy, Stormydown for recycling businesses wishing to utilise the low carbon energy sources being generated nearby
Download our Cement Brochure to read more about the specific benefits of Cenin Cement Replacements