CARBON2BUSINESS carbon capture and utilization project

The Carbon2Business project at our cement plant in Lägerdorf, Germany aims to capture more than 1.2 million tons of CO₂ emissions annually. Under the scope of the EU IF grant agreement, the captured CO₂ will be repurposed as an industrial raw material. In 2023, we received a grant from the EU Innovation Fund to advance the Carbon2Business project.

On 22 April 2024 we officially launched our Carbon2Business carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project with a groundbreaking event in Lägerdorf.

With this project, Holcim is contributing to the development of a CO₂ economy in Germany. We have been present in Lägerdorf for 160 years, and this innovative project will benefit the community in the years to come.

German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economics Dr. Robert Habeck and Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, Daniel Günther, were present at the ceremony together.

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 a solvent-free technology to capture and purify the CO₂ to a highly pure grade suitable 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 new products such as plastics.