Investment Focus:
Circularity in the built environment
Geographic Base:
Canada
Leader(s):
Markus Kritzler, CEO
Apoorv Sinha, Co-Founder & President
As traditional supplies of cement-manufacturing materials dwindle, the global cement supply chain faces significant pressure to secure new sources of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) or ways to boost the performance of traditional SCMs. Carbon Upcycling’s technology takes CO₂ emissions, industrial residues such as fly ash and steel slag, and natural raw materials including clays and pozzolans and transforms them into low-carbon, high-performing SCMs that can partially replace clinker in cement and concrete.
Carbon Upcycling addresses multiple structural challenges of the cement industry simultaneously: reducing emissions, improving material efficiency, and expanding the range of usable inputs. By enabling cement producers to use a broader range of industrial by-products and natural materials, its technology reduces dependence on increasingly constrained conventional SCM sources.
TITAN is working side by side with us to advance the development and deployment of our technology within cement manufacturing. Our work together spans development support, material performance validation, feasibility and engineering, techno-economic assessments, and the transition from pilot-scale validation to potential industrial deployment. By leveraging TITAN’s operational footprint and expertise, we are more rapidly forging a resource-efficient pathway for the reuse of cement industry by-products.