Tracking carbon capture signals across sectors, one sector kept coming up: cement.
🧱 It accounts for about 7% of global CO₂ emissions.
🧱 It’s one of the toughest sectors to decarbonize.
🧱 But lately, the industry is showing signs of movement.
In the past month, three breakthroughs stood out:
1️⃣ Heidelberg Materials brought online the world’s first industrial-scale CCS facility for cement, capturing 400,000 tonnes of CO₂ each year.
2️⃣ Hakkers used Paebbl’s carbon-storing cement at the Port of Rotterdam.
3️⃣ Carbon TerraVault and National Cement are building California’s first net-zero cement plant, aiming to capture one million tonnes of CO₂ per year in Kern County.
These are not pilots. This is real production.
We wanted to understand what’s changed, so Enki mapped out the first SWOT for CCS in cement.
✅ What’s different this time
⚠️ What still needs to be solved
💡 Where the next wave of opportunity could emerge
For anyone in hard-to-abate sectors, cement is now the sector to watch. The signals are too strong to ignore.