Emissions made at the source
Most of a plant's CO₂ comes from two steps: burning fuel to reach kiln temperatures above 1,400 °C, and the calcination of limestone itself. Both happen before any capture equipment is involved.
Low-carbon cement technology, licensed and documented per ton
Cut CO₂ at your existing plant. No full rebuild.
Acriva licenses a proprietary process that reduces CO₂ in cement production at the source. You keep your infrastructure, pay a technology fee and a royalty per verified ton, and receive independent documentation for every ton you make.
Proprietary process, protected as a trade secret
Compatible with existing plant infrastructure
Every ton documented
What a licensee receives, per ton
- Verified low-carbon cement
- 1 t produced under license
- Commercial terms
- Technology fee + royalty per ton
- Documentation
- Measured, verified, EPD-backed
- Plant
- Existing lines, no full rebuild
7 to 8%
of global CO₂ emissions come from cement production
Source: IEA, GCCA industry data
4.1bn t
of cement produced worldwide each year
Source: IEA cement tracking
150 to 300EUR/t CO₂
estimated cost of capturing and storing CO₂ at a cement plant
Source: published European CCS project estimates
~85EUR/t CO₂
indicative EU ETS allowance price, well below the cost of capture
Source: EU ETS market data, indicative
The industry challenge
Cement has a carbon problem. Capture alone will not fix it.
Cement is one of the largest industrial sources of CO₂. The industry's main answer so far, carbon capture and storage, treats the exhaust after the emissions have been made. It is expensive, slow to permit, and leaves producers paying for every ton they emit.
Capture costs more than the allowance
Published estimates put capture and storage at 150 to 300 EUR per ton of CO₂, against an EU ETS allowance price of around 85 EUR. Full European CCS build-out for cement runs into the hundreds of billions.
Energy-intensive clinker
Conventional clinker production depends on coal, petcoke, oil or gas to hold extreme temperatures. Production cost moves with every swing in the energy market.
Storage is a bottleneck
Geological storage sites are few, permitting is slow, and pipeline access is controlled by a handful of operators. Producers face rising fees for CO₂ disposal with little choice of supplier.
How it works
From screening to documented production.
Four pages explain what a producer needs to decide: how the process works, how the license is paid for, what each verified ton documents, and which residues it runs on.
The process
Reduction at the source: no kiln, no combustion, industrial residues as raw material, and how the target carbon intensity is being confirmed.
Licensing model
An upfront technology fee, then a royalty per verified ton, with implementation engineering and a four-step path to production.
Certificates, EACs and CBAM
What each verified ton documents, and how that differs from a voluntary carbon credit and an EU CBAM certificate.
Industrial partners
Slag, fly ash, quarry fines and mine tailings become secondary raw materials for low-carbon cement.
Pilot program
Start with a plant screening.
The pilot program takes a producer from first data exchange to test production on its own inputs. You see the reduction potential, the strength results and the royalty case before any license is signed.
- Screening of plant data, residue streams and current CO₂ intensity
- Material qualification and test production on your own inputs
- Compressive strength and CO₂ measurements against your baseline
- A documented royalty case and license term sheet