Closing the loop: An important development to help meet our Group 2030 ambition to offer circular alternatives for 50% of our concrete products. This new recycling facility in Poland provides a source of recycled concrete paste (RCP), which can be used as a raw material in clinker production or a lower carbon cement replacement. It can also absorb and permanently bind CO2, which we demonstrated here in the UK in at our Ribblesdale cement works in Lancashire. #hellofuture #sustainableconstruction #HeidelbergMaterialsUK
Our mission: closing the loop! Cement and concrete are high-quality and much needed building materials that require a lot of energy to produce. This makes it all the more important to utilise their full potential and strengthen circularity along the entire value chain. As a next step towards our circularity and carbon reduction targets, we have now commissioned an innovative recycling plant for selective separation at the Heidelberg Materials production site near Katowice, Poland: The first-of-its-kind facility features a proprietary crushing mechanism that enables sophisticated separation and sorting capabilities to fully recycle demolition concrete and substitute virgin materials in concrete production. By also recovering recycled concrete paste (RCP), our patented ReConcrete process combines circularity with decarbonisation. RCP can then be used as an alternative raw material in clinker production or as an alternative cementitious material. In addition, it can absorb and permanently bind CO₂. Learn more about ReConcrete and our circular approach in the video: