How Swiss giant Holcim is creating more sustainable cement and concrete

From Fast Company

Holcim is one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in the manufacturing category.

Source: Fast Company

The construction industry has been slow to innovate, reluctant to tinker with materials and methods designed to keep people safe from structural failures. But the building sector is also the source of 40% of the global greenhouse gas emissions that threaten the planet’s ecology.

Holcim, the giant Swiss cement and concrete manufacturer (the largest outside China), continues to lobby governments to enact legislation that...

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