We are proud to officially announce a second partnership with a global cement major, CRH! This combined $75M investment and pre-paid offtake of Sublime Cement™ from Holcim and CRH doubles Sublime's reach. In the near-term it shores up development of our first commercial plant in Holyoke, while simultaneously laying the foundation (pun intended!) for future development together of Sublime megaton plants in multiple regions once Holyoke is complete. Cement is an industry considered hard to abate because of legacy fossil-fueled processes that have scaled across the globe for decades. By pairing our expertise in electrochemical technology and innovation with CRH's and Holcim’s well-oiled machines in cement operations and distribution, we have the best possible shot at advancing our breakthrough technology with the scale and urgency both the massive global construction industry and the climate crisis demand. It is a thrill to be working with these incredible partners, and we could not be more excited to #KeepBuilding, together! #investment #cement #lowcarboncement #NYCW #stratgicpartnerships #climateinnovation #sustainablebuilding
Sublime Systems
Construction
Somerville, Massachusetts 13,527 followers
Low-carbon cement - without fossil fuel
About us
Sublime is developing a breakthrough process to make low-carbon cement. The technology replaces the industry's legacy fossil-fuel-intensive thermal calciner process with an electrochemical process that produces low-carbon cement at ambient temperatures with renewable electricity. Sublime was started in 2020, as a spin-out of Yet-Ming Chiang's lab at MIT (Form Energy, A123, American Superconductor, 24M, Desktop Metals).
- Website
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www.sublime-systems.com/
External link for Sublime Systems
- Industry
- Construction
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Somerville, Massachusetts
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
Locations
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Primary
444 Somerville Ave
Somerville, Massachusetts 02143, US
Employees at Sublime Systems
Updates
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Sublime Systems reposted this
Proud to showcase GSA’s partnership with one of our Green Proving Ground FY24 cohort companies, Sublime Systems. Had a great visit to their Boston HQ, learned about their work, and took part in the Low-Embodied Carbon Concrete Buy Clean ribbon cutting!
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"One phrase was uttered over and over again Tuesday morning by the movers and shakers of Beacon Hill and D.C.: Who knew concrete was so exciting?" We are glad everyone is in on our secret!!! It was an immense honor and privilege to partner again with Yanni Tsipis and unveil the first sidewalk made with Sublime Cement™ at WS Development's One Boston Wharf building in Boston's Seaport neighborhood, with an esteemed group of private and public sector leaders spanning state, local, and federal government. All excited about the role of low-carbon cement in helping us fight climate-changing emissions, keep building the infrastructure our world needs, make America a leader in the new Clean Industrial Revolution, bring quality union jobs to communities that need them most, and so much more. To steal speaker and Ben Beachy's — special assistant to the president for climate policy, industrial sector & community investment — words "the everything bagel." Office of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and U.S. Representative Richard Neal emphasized Massachusetts as the perfect backdrop for this achievement and our future scale-up, and emblematic of the greater city's and state's history of innovation. Thank you to GSA Office of the Administrator Robin Carnahan, Federal Chief Sustainability Officer Andrew Mayock, and Deputy Director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Justina Gallegos, Turner Construction Company's Kent Kunkel, Don Davies, Jim Carreira of BOSTON SAND & GRAVEL CO, U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley, MassDOT Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver, Emil Ramirez of the United Steelworkers (USW), and of course our CEO Leah Ellis, for collectively speaking to the important buying signal of the government, the role of the construction community, the partnership with union labor, the private sector support, and the need to center environmental justice in it all as we bring cement making into the post-carbon future. Read coverage from the days' event here.: https://lnkd.in/eTgkEuGk And stay tuned for more updates and video; too much to share in one post! #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #industrialdecarbonization #environmentaljustice #climatechange #climateinnovation #justice40 Photo credit: Boston Seaport by WS Development / Eric Levin.
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Our new collaboration with Microsoft — focused on the book and claim market for cement — enables us to collectively build towards a future “where there is a Sublime Cement™ plant in every region,” in the words of our CEO Dr. Leah Ellis. Today we announced an MOU that puts us on a path to negotiating Microsoft’s purchase of the environmental attributes of Sublime Cement™, separate from our physical product’s deployment. This is intended to catalyze the book and claim market in cement and concrete, following its momentum in other technologies like clean energy and sustainable aviation fuel. It also follows the incredible leadership of groups like RMI and Center for Green Market Activation (GMA) in this area. This is yet another critical tool for getting our technology to mass commercial scale, as it shows bankable demand for our cement that can attract future investors. And it allows companies like Microsoft to use low-carbon cement to lower their Scope 3 emissions, even as they are building new data centers and office buildings in regions where we do not yet have Sublime plants. Our colleague Cory Waltrip just spoke on an energizing panel hosted by Deloitte on this very topic for New York Climate Week. It takes a village of partners to usher in the post-carbon future for cement, and we are excited to add Microsoft to it! Read more about the collaboration here: https://lnkd.in/efpREzWh #KeepBuilding #bookandclaim #MOU #Microsoft #EACs #lowcarboncement #scale #NYCW
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Sublime Systems reposted this
Reinvent how the world builds by collaborating with startups and stakeholders along the construction value chain.
Day 1 at #ClimateWeekNYC! 🚀 I’m thrilled to join today Leah Ellis from Sublime Systems for the upcoming panel discussion at the SightLive event: A foundatonal FOAK electrochemical cement plant 💡 This panel will delve into Sublime's mission to develop emission free cement and how Holcim contributes as strategic partner on their next steps towards industrial scale up and commercialization. . 🔜 Stay tuned for insights and takeaways that could shape the future of our industry! #HolcimMAQERVentures #ClimateWeekNYC2024
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Congratulations to our co-founder Yet-Ming Chiang for a well-deserved spot on the Forbes Sustainability Leaders list! Reporter Amy Feldman took a nice deep dive into Yet's successes in inventing and spinning out technologies across a diverse array of climate challenges. Our CEO and co-founder Leah Ellis says it best: "'Yet’s mode of inventing is he starts with a problem and works his way backwards to a solution. He can go from batteries to cement to cold fusion.'” You can catch Yet on a panel at the Atlantic Festival today as well! #KeepBuilding #sustainabilityleader #climateinnovation #lowcarboncement
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We are proud to announce a partnership with global building solutions provider Holcim that strengthens our mission of swift and massive impact on global CO2 emissions by decarbonizing cement. This collaboration includes an equity investment, a binding reservation from Holcim of the Sublime Cement™ produced out of our first commercial facility in Holyoke, MA, and commitments to co-develop future full-scale Sublime plants together once the Holyoke factory is complete. Scale is everything when it comes to success in cement, the key ingredient in the most consumed human-made material on Earth, concrete. It requires a broad logistics and distribution footprint that companies like Holcim have already built and excel at. We are impressed by Holcim’s decisive commitments to the construction industry’s decarbonization, and we are eager to plug our breakthrough cement production process into their global infrastructure, to scale our cement as a tool for fighting climate change among a rapidly closing window of opportunity. Read more about the collaboration here: https://lnkd.in/eXuJNP2A #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #cement #climatesolution #climatcechange #climatetech #sustainablebuilding #investment #collaboration
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Sublime Systems reposted this
Founder & CEO, Decarb Connect & Decarbonisation Leaders Network: Working with co2-intensive industries globally to accelerate decarbonisation
Great to see some commercial/commercialising disruptors in discussion with Kerri Fox - Shreya Dave of Via Separations , Leah Ellis of Sublime Systems and Martin Keighley of CarbonFree (some of you will have heard my podcast with Martin trom late last year). Kerri’s now Operating Partner at Engine Ventures but of course has all the experience from leading the funding of Carbon Engineering… a great set up for a discussion on the things that worked and leasons learned: - size your FOAK appropriately.. big enough to have impact but small enough to be fundable - you will meet many hurdles, not just the ones in view - team and individual resilience is essential - still waiting in the ultimate incentive - the incentive for co2 avoided and not just co2 stored - pivot your business model as you grow.. its not a fixed point and you can add value in many ways nstead of just focusing in the green premium - deployment is a distinct skill from innovation - build your team early with this in mind … so many more points but these are my highlights from this really inspiring panel.. Decarb Connect #foak #climateleadership #climatetech
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Our CEO Dr. Leah Ellis is speaking tomorrow at Decarb Connect Decarb TechInvest, about raising capital for FOAK projects! She'll be in a great line-up — alongside Trevor Best, Shashank Samala, Martin Keighley and Kerri Fox — to talk through financing and scaling to commercialize breakthrough technologies, like our true-zero cement manufacturing. Will we see you there? #decarbconnect #DCTI24 #decarbtechinvest #decarbonization #climatetech #foak #firstofakind #raisingcapital
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Over the past two weeks we've had the pleasure of connecting with our Holyoke neighbors some more. First, at the Holyoke Safe Neighborhood Initiative's Back-to-School fair, where organizers handed out 2500+ backpacks with school supplies, gave haircuts, supplied clothes, and generally got their community off to an amazing start for the school year. Then we partnered with OneHolyoke Community Development Corporation on their Community Walk. Our water station was in the perfect location; across the street from our future first commercial manufacturing plant on Water St! Thanks to the incredible organizers and partners there; we are so excited to #KeepBuilding in Holyoke! #communityengagement #lowcarboncement #sustainablebuilding