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Joint Study Shows High-Performance Low-Carbon Concrete is Stronger than Existing Roadways
Carbon Upcycling's CO2-enhanced mix achieved a 12.5% reduction in cement content while matching the workability of…
Cementing a Path to a Carbon-Neutral Future
The Calgary-based company recently raised a $34.3 million Series A funding round co-led by BDC Capital’s Climate Tech…
New Technology Companies Are Tackling The Emissions In Cement
Forbes - Carbon Upcycling is one of the companies working through the steps required to develop low-emissions cement.
Long-time Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Executive Joins Carbon Upcycling as Chief Operating Officer
Carbon Upcycling's Co-founder & CEO, Apoorv Sinha, has been recognized as a top 10 climate leader in Maclean's…
Carbon Upcycling Joins Portland Cement Association
By partnering with international cement producers like CRH and Cemex, Carbon Upcycling is tackling industry-wide…
Carbon Upcycling Achieves B Corp. Certification
This prestigious recognition underscores Carbon Upcycling’s ongoing commitment to meeting rigorous standards of social…
Carbon Upcycling Named to World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers 2024
This recognition places us among 100 groundbreaking companies and the only one from Canada chosen for our potential to…
CleanTech Industry Pioneer Steven Berkenfeld Joins Carbon Upcycling as Chair of the Board
"Carbon Upcycling's innovative approach to both decarbonization and carbon capture and utilization has significant…
Carbon Upcycling Delivers First 200 Tonnes of CO₂-Enhanced Fly Ash to BURNCO Ltd. for Low-Carbon Concrete Development
Carbon Upcycling Technologies, Inc. (“Carbon Upcycling”), a leader in circular decarbonization solutions for…
Carbon Upcycling’s CEO Apoorv Sinha named to Maclean’s 100 most influential Canadians
Carbon Upcycling's Co-founder & CEO, Apoorv Sinha, has been recognized as a top 10 climate leader in Maclean's…
Carbon Upcycling selected to join Saint Gobain GoBuild 2023 Cohort
Carbon Upcycling has been selected out of more than 100 applicants to join Greentown Labs & Saint-Gobain's GoBuild…
Carbon Upcycling named to Reuter’s 100 Innovators Leading the Global Energy Transition 2024
Carbon Upcycling was selected out of more than 1000 nominations for our work in the rapid and meaningful…
Decarbonization Summit
Carbon Upcycling's Apoorv Sinha joined Climate Investment (CI) at their annual decarbonization summit to discuss…
Carbon Upcycling raises $26M Series A led by BDC Capital and Climate Investment
Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc. (“Carbon Upcycling”), a leader in circular decarbonization solutions for…
Carbon Upcycling and The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Awarded International Funding through Emissions Reductions Alberta
In this project, Carbon Upcycling and NREL are partnering to develop and demonstrate a framework to assess the…
Carbon Upcycling awarded 2023 Innovative Company by the NRMCA
Build With Strength, an initiative of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA), recently celebrated…
Carbon Upcycling and A3&CO.® Sign a Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Cement Decarbonization and Circularity
Carbon Upcycling signed a strategic partnership with A3&Co.® to support the engineering and project delivery of Carbon…
CRH Ventures invests in Carbon Upcycling
CRH Ventures is excited to announce our investment in Carbon Upcycling Technologies (CUT), a company whose patented…
Carbon Upcycling Receives 4.4 Million in Project Funding through Emissions Reduction Alberta Circular Economy Challenge
Carbon Upcycling awarded project funding to support the first commercial-scale deployment of two carbon capture and…
Greening heavy industry should be the next climate goal
Christiana Figueres, the United Nations’ chief negotiator at the COP21 climate conference in Paris in 2015, has…
New Branding Announcement
After several months of internal development and guidance from some excellent agency support, today we unveil the new…
Carbon Upcycling Participates in First-of-a-Kind Department of Transportation Low-Carbon Concrete Demonstration Project
Carbon Upcycling, a waste and carbon utilization company commercializing a portfolio of novel, circular and…
Age of Invention: Why wasn’t the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part II
As I noted in Part I of Why wasn’t the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? the general idea of using heat and steam for…
The Carbon to Value Initiative Announces Year Two Startup Cohort for Carbontech Accelerator Program
The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative), a multi-year collaboration among the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon…
The 2026 Carbon & Methane Capture Market Would Total $215 Billion, According to a New Report
The new market report (395 pages, 305 tables & figures) published by HSRC, Carbon & Methane Capture Market &…
Carbon Upcycling Awarded £2.3 Million to Manufacture Climate-Resilient Cement Alternative from Waste Glass and CO2
Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Carbon Upcycling), a carbon utilization company that produces CO2-enhanced cement...
Age of Invention: Why wasn’t the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part I
As regular readers might have noticed, it’s been a long time since my last newsletter — far, far longer than usual.…
Direct Air Capture (DAC or DACCS) Market Report 2021 Global Industry Size, Segment by Key Companies, Types & Applications and Forecast to 2026
The latest report on Direct Air Capture (DAC or DACCS) market showcases the latest trends that are catering to the…
Aecon Pilots Low Carbon Concrete at Innovation and Training Centre
In support of its target to achieve a 30 per cent reduction in direct CO2 emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050,…
Cement industry launches net-zero innovation challenge
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has launched its first ‘Open Challenge’ for sustainable innovation.…
Global Cement Industry Announces New Programme of Support for Sustainable Technologies – as ‘Open Challenge’ for Brightest Innovation Start-ups Unveils First Partnerships
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has today revealed the first six start-ups that will be backed by its…
Purpose ESG Adds Carbon Upcycling Technologies to its Portfolio
Purpose ESG Holdings Inc. ("Purpose ESG” or the “Company”), an investment issuer building a portfolio of technology…
Age of Invention: Leveraged Philanthropy
This week I’ve been chasing a lot of disparate research threads. I’ll be writing them up in the weeks to come.
Cemex invests in lower carbon cement technology
CEMEX has invested in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, which has developed technology that uses clinker substitutes to…
Cemex Ventures invests in Carbon Upcycling Technologies
Cemex Ventures (Cemex Group) is investing in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a Canadian startup and global leader in…
Carbon removal’s hype men
Xprize, which runs a $100 million contest for carbon removal startups backed by Elon Musk and The Musk Foundation,…
X-Factor Award Winner Carbon Upcycling Technologies…
Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a carbon utilization company that produces a CO2-embedded cement and concrete additive,…
Carbon Upcycling Technologies Secures $6 Million to Scale Carbon-Resilient Infrastructure
Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a carbon utilization company that produces a CO2-embedded cement and concrete additive,…
NOVA Examines New Climate Technologies that Aim to Cool the Planet
In NOVA: Can We Cool the Planet, NOVA takes a fresh approach to covering the climate change crisis by exploring new…
Age of Invention: London Coal-ing
Britain’s Industrial Revolution was about much more than the usual trope of “cotton, iron, and coal” — it’s something…
Laying Foundations
The Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (BII+E) is an independent and nonpartisan policy institute,…
Black & Veatch’s IgniteX Start-up Accelerator Announces 2022 Participants
Recognizing the world needs innovative solutions to counter the ongoing climate crisis, Black & Veatch has selected…
Justin Trudeau wants a “just transition” away from Canada’s energy sector
As Justin Trudeau’s government seeks to “decarbonize” Canadian industry, the Liberals are advancing what they call a…
Carbon Upcycling Announces Formation of Advisory Board…
Carbon Upcycling Technologies, the innovative carbon utilization company, announced today the formation...
Making Concrete More Sustainable
The construction and building industry contributes significantly to humanity’s collective carbon footprint. Concrete…
NGIF CEO Named To Canadian Cleantech List
John Adams, CEO of NGIF Capital, has been named to Canada’s Clean50 awards list for 2022, Delta Management Group and…
Cement producers scrambling to cut carbon emissions
Canadian cement producers are scrambling to find means of cutting CO2 emissions on all fronts as the federal government…
Lafarge and Carbon Upcycling Technologies Sign MOU to Reduce Carbon
LAFARGE Canada Inc. (Lafarge) has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Calgary-based carbon…
Becoming Carbon Positive
As part of our science-based target commitment, we seek to reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon emissions 100% by…
Taking today’s waste to make building materials of tomorrow: Carbon Upcycling Technologies
Apoorv Sinha, founder and CEO of Carbon Upcycling Technologies, discusses how his company converts CO2 gas into solid…
Creating products, art out of CO2 ‘huge step forward in climate mitigation’: Expedition Air lead
Alberta-based Expedition Air makes things like paint, soap, and other consumer products out of carbon. Venture lead,…
Creating products, art out of CO2 ‘huge step forward in climate mitigation’: Expedition Air lead
Alberta-based Expedition Air makes things like paint, soap, and other consumer products out of carbon. Venture lead,…
Calgary company creates online marketplace for consumer products made from captured CO2
Carbon Upcycling Technologies ultimately aims to create a 'circular economy,' whereby emissions created in the…
5 Top Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Solutions
Staying ahead of the technology curve means strengthening your competitive advantage. That is why we give you…
Cemex and Carbon Upcycling Technologies plan reduced-CO2 concrete with nanotechnology
Cemex has signed an agreement with Canada-based Carbon Upcycling Technologies to “improve the processing of residue or…
Can We Cool the Planet?
As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists are wondering if we need solutions that go beyond reducing…
Government of Alberta invests in CCUS
As part of its Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund, the Alberta Government is investing in carbon…
Carbon Upcycling Technologies Becomes 2020 AcceliCITY Resiliency Track Champion
“Carbon Upcycling have demonstrated the upmost resourcefulness by transforming the threatening presence of carbon…
First cohort of 15 startups get set for Vimson Group & New Lab’s Prospect Mining Studio
Back in October 2019, leading Indian mining conglomerate, Vimson Group and innovation hub, New Lab, announced a…
76WEST Clean-energy Contest Winner To Expand Operations To Southern Tier
A Pennsylvania company that makes emission-reducing biodiesel fuel systems for trucks is using its grand-prize win in…
Apoorv Sinha
Corrosion is a constant plague for industrial facilities. Apoorv Sinha's Carbon Upcycling Technologies (CUT) has…
Innovation Profile: Apoorv Sinha
Carbon Upcycling CEO doubles down on capturing CO2 emissions, changing a climate change problem into a value-creation…
10 teams advance to final stage of $20 million Carbon XPrize
The notion of turning C02 into something useful sounds wildly futuristic, but scientists are already making promising…