Ontario Construction News staff writer
Lafarge Canada Inc., a leader in sustainable building solutions and a member of the Holcim Group, and Canadian carbon technology innovator Hyperion Global Energy Corp. have announced the launch of the world’s first Tandem Carbon Recycling System pilot. The innovative process aims to advance circularity by capturing and transforming carbon emissions into high-performance mineral components for sustainable building materials like low-carbon concrete.
The pilot project is currently underway at Lafarge’s Bath Cement Plant in Ontario. It involves testing Hyperion’s net-zero mineral solutions for advanced concrete, including Lafarge’s ECOPact, which can reduce embedded carbon by 30 to 90 per cent compared to standard concrete without compromising performance.
The collaboration seeks to further develop and scale Hyperion’s proprietary Tandem Carbon Recycling technology. This system captures and transforms waste carbon emissions into high-purity minerals that permanently store carbon. Hyperion’s reactive mineralization process achieves up to 98 per cent capture efficiency of carbon dioxide emissions, producing innovative mineral components that enhance the density and strength of concrete and have other industrial applications.
“Our collaboration with Hyperion marks an exciting milestone in our decarbonization journey and the advancement of our circular construction technologies,” said David Redfern, president and CEO of Lafarge Eastern Canada. “We look forward to advancing our Net Zero strategy by leveraging carbon utilization technology like Hyperion’s, enabling us to further reduce CO2 emissions from our operations while at the same time producing innovative and sustainable building solutions.”
“Working together with an innovative partner like Lafarge on this exciting pilot project allows us to apply our proprietary carbon recycling technology to large-scale industries and make an immediate, measurable reduction in carbon emissions,” said Heather Ward, CEO and co-founder of Hyperion. “At the same time, we are advancing our vision to offer a scalable and affordable decarbonization solution for industry, and a market-driven profit incentive on the cost of carbon removal.”
The pilot currently has the capacity to remove up to 1,000 tonnes of CO2 per year from plant operations, with potential to scale the system tenfold over the next year. This represents a 500 per cent scale-up of Hyperion’s technology since its original prototype was part of the global Carbon XPRIZE competition. The current system was fully manufactured in Ontario, working with local suppliers and trades, along with Hyperion’s team of skilled industrial engineers.