At the Energy Disruptors: UNITE 2024 conference in Calgary, Apoorv Sinha, CEO of Carbon Upcycling, presented an ambitious strategy for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors like cement, steel, and mining. The Calgary-based company recently secured $34.3 million in Series A funding to scale its innovative carbon-to-value solutions.
Carbon Upcycling converts industrial byproducts into low-carbon construction materials, reducing emissions in the cement industry by up to two-thirds. Sinha announced plans for the world’s first full-scale carbon-to-value plant with CRH in Mississauga and emphasized expanding into steel and petrochemicals to achieve gigaton-level impact by 2050.
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