Carbon Herald just published Fortera And MLC To Capture Carbon From Lime Production.
Carbon Herald reports that materials technology firm Fortera and global lime manufacturer MLC have entered a development agreement to construct a full-scale carbon capture facility tied to lime production. The partnership aims to deploy Fortera’s process, which converts captured CO2 from lime kilns into a low-carbon supplementary cementitious material. Lime manufacturing is a hard-to-abate sector because roughly two thirds of its emissions come from the calcination reaction itself, not fuel combustion. The agreement covers project development work leading toward commercial-scale deployment, though the outlet notes further specifics on site, capacity, and timeline in the full piece.
Our take (Useful): Pairing capture with a mineralization pathway that yields a saleable cement input is one of the more economically plausible routes for lime and cement decarbonization, since it creates a revenue stream rather than pure storage cost. Watch for disclosed capture rates, capex, and whether the resulting product meets standard cement specifications at scale.
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Source: Carbon Herald