Claes Kollberg

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EU funds Latvian low-carbon cement factory

Leading the company as it moves from demonstration to commercial production

The European Commission has selected Swedish cleantech company Cemvision for a grant of up to €27.5 million to build its first commercial-scale cement plant, in the Latvian port of Ventspils. It would make up to 500,000 tonnes a year of supersulfated cement. The process grinds and blends steel-industry slag with electricity instead of burning limestone.

Updated Oct 26

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"Being selected by the Innovation Fund confirms that our technology is ready to move from demonstration to industrial scale. This grant brings us a decisive step closer to building our first commercial plant, and to showing that Europe can make the cement it needs from its own industrial residues, with a fraction of the emissions." — Claes Kollberg, CEO, Cemvision

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