As part of its progress strategy, this partnership is faithful to the brand's development policy, based on innovation objectives, bringing a performance gain to solutions, while contributing significantly and sustainably to the reduction of CO2 emissions.
For Franck Pied, Marketing and Technical Director at Edilteco France: “At Edilteco we have always been involved in energy saving and sustainability, this has been our mission since the company was founded. The recent market introduction of Politerm R and now the launch of CarbonCure gives impetus to the emergence of our future Green range, dedicated to products containing up to 90% recycled EPS - which will be launched at the next show. BATIMAT. Today, with CarbonCure, we have the opportunity to offer even more to the concrete plants with which we have collaborated for years, allowing them to produce concrete with the usual quality, but with a reduced carbon footprint. »
Carbon Cure Technology
CarbonCure technology contributes strongly to sustainable development.
This technology allows concrete producers (concrete plants and precasters) to offer the same high quality concrete but with a reduced carbon footprint.
CarbonCure injects captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into fresh concrete as it is mixed. Once injected, the CO2 is instantly transformed on contact with the cement into CaCO3 (calcium carbonate); these nanomaterials are permanently embedded and will never be released into the atmosphere. This CO2 mineralization also significantly improves the compressive strength of concrete and allows the cement content of each mix to be safely reduced.
CarbonCure holds a technical approval issued by the DIBT (German Institute for Building Technology). CarbonCure technology is in full compliance with the NF EN 206 standard. Thus, while respecting the dosages, with the addition of CO2, it is possible to reduce the quantity of cement by 4 to 6% and in addition to keep the same technical and mechanical performance.
Assuming that 6% cement can be saved, this equates to approximately 15 kg/m3. If we take the example of an average concrete plant in France, consuming 40 m000 of concrete per year, the annual saving of cement for this plant is 3 tons.
Practical details
Each CarbonCure installation includes 2 enclosures. The first (control unit) precisely calculates the quantity of CO2 to be injected according to the concrete formulation. It is linked to the plant software (adapts to all plant software) and directly linked to CarbonCure to which it communicates, in real time, all the data collected for the calculation of the consumption of CO2 injected into the concrete. CarbonCure collects the exact CO2 consumption of each concrete batching plant.
The CarbonCure methodology has been verified by the VERRA organization (Verra.org) to obtain shared white certificates between each player. The other box (the valve block) is installed on the CO2 tank and manages the addition of the dose. The pressure vessel (20 bars) sends the CO2 in a liquid state into the concrete being mixed. It is this pressure which injects and transforms the CO2 in the form of snow in the mixer, where the CO2 is immediately transformed into CaCO3 on contact with the mixture.
The concrete plant is free to choose its CO2 supplier.
Edilteco France takes care of the installation of the boxes and their programming is done automatically remotely. A team of Edilteco technicians has been specially trained to ensure the installation, maintenance and after-sales service of the boxes.