Environmentally-Friendly Cement Claimed by Spanish Scientists

Spanish scientists from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient??ficas (CSIC) have developed a new type of cement they believe could greatly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the cement industry and reduce energy consumption in the production of cement by up to 50 percent.

Palomo explained another important advantage of the new cement is it uses ash from burnt coal, an abundant industrial by-product worldwide. The new cement has been submitted to various tests. Palomo asserts the results show the new cement is equivalent to the cement currently produced, and better in some ways.