CARBON2BUSINESS carbon capture and utilization project

The Carbon2Business project at our cement plant in Lägerdorf, Germany aims to capture more than 1 million tons of CO₂ emissions annually. The captured CO₂ will be repurposed as an industrial raw material, and from 2029 cement production at Lägerdorf will be entirely net-zero.

In 2023, we received a grant from the EU Innovation Fund to advance the Carbon2Business project.

Carbon2Business is a carbon capture and utilization project that aims to create new value chains and develop technologies to help decarbonize industrial companies beyond the cement industry. 

• CO₂ will be captured from the cement manufacturing process using Oxyfuel technology – an “end-of-the-pipe" solution. The technology works by substituting combustion air with pure oxygen, producing a CO₂-rich flue gas. The gas is then cooled, purified and liquified, creating a highly pure CO₂ gas for use in other industries.
• The purified CO₂ will either be processed into e-methanol through methanol synthesis or reprocessed as a raw material, to produce plastics for example.