Global Cement and Concrete Association launches Innovandi Open Challenge 2025

Start-ups from around the world can play an important role in helping an essential global industry in its efforts to cut CO₂ emissions and help solve the climate challenge. This is why the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) and its member companies across the world are inviting them to apply for the Innovandi Open Challenge 2025.

The Innovandi Open Challenge, now in its 4th year, is the GCCA’s accelerator that partners start-ups with GCCA members to develop technologies and innovations to help the cement and concrete sector decarbonise.

The Open Challenge 4 is looking for start-ups from around the world working on next generation materials towards net zero concrete, e.g. low-carbon admixtures, supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), activators, or binders.

Innovation can help further unlock the delivery of low carbon concrete by reducing the amount of clinker used – the carbon intensive element of cement – and by using the most cutting-edge materials as part of the concrete mix to lower CO₂ emissions.

Thomas Guillot, Chief Executive of the GCCA, said: “Advanced production methods which are decarbonising our sector are already being used in cement and concrete production in many parts of the world. Through the Innovandi Open Challenge, start-ups can bring in even newer ideas and further accelerate our industry’s push.

“We’re calling on the best and the brightest from around the world to join us in the urgent fight to limit global warming and help towards delivering net zero concrete. If you are a start-up from anywhere in the world with an innovative idea or technology, then we want to hear from you.”

Concrete is the second most used substance on earth after water and is a vital part of our modern infrastructure.

The global challenge matches start-up companies with some of the world’s leading cement and concrete manufacturers, who operate in almost every country across the world, to work on initiatives to cut emissions and pioneer environmental change across the industry.

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