The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations has selected Sublime Systems to receive an $87 million investment as part of the single largest industrial decarbonization effort in U.S. history!! Our project will play an important role in decarbonizing the cement sector by accelerating our true-zero manufacturing technology to first commercial scale in Holyoke, Mass., which was once known as the "Paper City of the World." The DoE is playing an admirable role in the decarbonization of heavy industry, with catalytic funding that allows companies like us to move faster than would have otherwise been possible and deploy our carbon avoidance technology with the urgency needed to meet the world’s net-zero-by-2050 goals. While scaling the fossil-fuel-free technology to produce the cement of our post-carbon future, we are excited to be simultaneously strengthening the American manufacturing base and bringing great jobs to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where we got our start. We are proudly partnering with the United Steelworkers (USW) — the single largest industrial union in North America — to support our future employees’ right to organize and to train the workforce needed for our electrochemical cement manufacturing. The City of Holyoke and Mayor Joshua A. Garcia have been so forward thinking in welcoming us and embracing their role in the new clean manufacturing era. The clean transition can be a just transition — and we are just getting started. Together, with our 33 fellow selectees, we’ll: 🏗️🌎Transform the industrial sector with new emissions-slashing technologies. 🇺🇸📈Strengthen American manufacturing competitiveness. 👷🦺Create and maintain good-paying jobs. Sublime's award selection was featured in Brad Plumer of The New York Times' coverage of the Industrial Demonstrations Program, here: https://lnkd.in/eVzt5zqv #KeepBuilding #OCED #IndustrialDemonstrationsProgram #industrialdecarbonization #lowcarboncement #hardtoabate #climateinnovation #netzero2050
Sublime Systems
Construction
Somerville, Massachusetts 12,286 followers
Low-carbon cement - without fossil fuel
About us
Sublime is developing a breakthrough process to make low-carbon cement. The technology replaces the industry's legacy fossil-fuel-intensive thermal calciner process with an electrochemical process that produces low-carbon cement at ambient temperatures with renewable electricity. Sublime was started in 2020, as a spin-out of Yet-Ming Chiang's lab at MIT (Form Energy, A123, American Superconductor, 24M, Desktop Metals).
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www.sublime-systems.com/
External link for Sublime Systems
- Industry
- Construction
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Somerville, Massachusetts
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
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444 Somerville Ave
Somerville, Massachusetts 02143, US
Employees at Sublime Systems
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We are excited to welcome another climate tech powerhouse to our board, Bill Brady! He’s an expert in innovation-led transformation of traditional industries and the scaling of new industrial technologies in big and small companies alike. He’s helped build Mascoma LLC, Monolith, and Kula Bio into into the companies they are today, following a successful 23-year tenure at Cabot Corporation, a $3B specialty chemical company. We are grateful to have his expertise in scaling manufacturing and building commercial relationships between big and small enterprises, critical as we develop our electrochemical cement manufacturing technology to have swift and massive impact on global CO2 emissions! #KeepBuilding #leadership #climatetech
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We recently welcomed NBC Boston Stations to our Somerville, MA-based pilot lab, to discuss our true-zero approach for manufacturing cement, how we test our material to ensure it performs the way the construction industry needs it to, how our forthcoming Holyoke, MA plant will help us scale our technology across the globe, and much more! Great to see our partners Yanni Tsipis WS Development featured at the site of our first commercial project, too! Catch the full story here: https://lnkd.in/ezBzKkWf #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #sustainablebuilding #climatetech
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Thank you to Justin R. Wolf for covering the "natural partnership" between our Sublime and Vineyard Offshore. This is a great read on how renewable energy developers can look to clean materials for their projects, and how the growth of renewable energy provides a welcome blueprint for bringing low-carbon cement to the mainstream. We are also glad to see Engine Ventures mentioned for their work in connecting us!
The Massachusetts-based offshore wind developer Vineyard Offshore and low-carbon cement producer Sublime Systems have entered into a reservation agreement for the sale of 2,000 tons of Sublime's product, to be integrated into the tentative Vineyard Wind 2 development. This farm, comprising an undetermined number of turbines 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, is projected to generate up to 1,200 megawatts of renewable electricity. This type of partnership - aligning the practices and mission of a low-carbon building product manufacturer and a developer of renewable energy - is unprecedented! “Vineyard is producing clean electricity, so it only makes sense to build with clean materials." - Joe Hicken, Sublime's VP of policy and business development. “Wind turbine technology is growing in scale, and every year there seems to be a larger offshore wind turbine available. So, that makes it possible to produce the same power with fewer turbines." - Zach Fuerst, Vineyard's director of business development. This deal is conditional upon Vineyard Offshore being awarded an offtake contract in the ongoing offshore wind solicitations by Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island for Vineyard Wind 2. My latest in Green Building Advisor... https://lnkd.in/eyYH9KN3 #renewableenergy #renewableelectricity #windfarms #offshorewind #renewableinfrastructure #lowcarboneconomy #greencement #greenconcrete #lowcarbonconcrete #lowcarbonfuture #climatetech #climateinnovation #Massachusetts
Wind Power Generation Meets Green Cement Production - GreenBuildingAdvisor
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Holyoke, MA, the site of our forthcoming first commercial manufacturing facility, is home to the largest Puerto Rican population per capita in the U.S. outside of Puerto Rico. The community hosts an annual Fiestas de Patronales de Holyoke to celebrate this heritage, and our team (Patrick Beaudry, Andrés López, EIT, Becky Gallagher, Kelly Lem, Raul Castillo Castro) had the pleasure of attending it last week and weekend for the second year in a row. We answered questions about our build out plans there, got to know our future neighbors a bit better, and happily gave away many coqui figurines made out of Sublime Cement™. Thank you to our community for being wonderful hosts as always — we are excited to #KeepBuilding with you all in Holyoke!
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It takes a village to bring low-carbon cement to market, and we are grateful for the support of leading thinkers at RMI and the Center for Green Market Activation market on this as the coalesce demand across leading buyers and infrastructure owners like Meta!
Concrete and cement are essential components of the modern built environment, but their production heats the planet, accounting for nearly 8% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s why the White House recently convened the first-of-its-kind Concrete Innovation Summit, to bring together manufacturers, government officials, start-ups, developers, engineers, designers, and contractors to address the climate impacts of this emissions-intensive industrial sector. Investments to scale technological solutions are needed to decarbonize the industry, which is why RMI and the Center for Green Market Activation are gathering support from an increasing number of companies that are committed to growing the market for low-carbon cement and concrete, including pioneering organizations such as Meta, Trammell Crow Company, Sublime Systems, and Brimstone . Working together, we can spur the development of clean innovations , help low-emissions cement production scale, and accelerate the adoption of more sustainable materials: https://bit.ly/46rB638 #Decarbonization #Cement #Concrete #BuiltEnvironment #EmissionsReduction
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"More American jobs, more American innovation, it's a no brainer," says our VP of policy & BD Joe Hicken about the introduction of the second bipartisan bill introduced to accelerate low-carbon cement, concrete, and asphalt. We'll say it again: public sector support for low-carbon cement means we can deploy twice as fast and address the climate crisis with the urgency it demands. All while strengthening American manufacturing, jobs, and innovation. We applaud U.S. Representatives Valerie Foushee and Max Miller for introducing this legislation in the House, complementing the bipartisan Concrete & Asphalt Innovation Act introduced earlier in the Senate by Senators Thom Tillis and Christopher Coons. These bills strengthen R&D and collaboration across federal and state agencies to accelerate low-carbon building materials, fund grants for purchase at the state DOT level, and enable agencies to secure low-carbon materials in advance, unleashing critical buyer signals to the broader market. We are grateful for the collaboration between lawmakers, innovators, and industrial decarbonization thought leaders in advancing these bills, including Decarbonized Cement & Concrete Alliance, ClearPath, Clean Air Task Force, Sierra Club, and World Resources Institute. Learn more about the legislation here: https://lnkd.in/gfw4dxQN #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #industrialdecarbonization #Americanmanufacturing #innovation
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Looking forward to talking about Sublime Systems at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Cement and Concrete Decarbonization Annual Event today!
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The Decarbonized Cement and Concrete Alliance (DC2) is excited to support the new Center of Excellence for Low Carbon Cement and Concrete announced at The White House last week (https://lnkd.in/exrt7KKk). This initiative is exceedingly helpful for advancing our collective mission to build a sustainable infrastructure with innovative materials and processes. At DC2, we understand the concerns engineers and contractors have about adopting new materials in construction. To address this, one of our five policy pillars has focused on early adopter platforms and advocacy for public sector initiatives that facilitate trusted validation. This approach helps build confidence in new production processes, new technologies, and new products by providing a clearing house for data and transparency. The new center's establishment, launched by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), marks a significant step in making the validation process more efficient for the marketplace. By leveraging the power of the public sector, we can accelerate the adoption of low-carbon solutions, ensuring they meet industry expectations and gain widespread acceptance. Our compliments to the hardworking folks at IEDO, including Paul Majsztrik and Isabelle Sgro Rojas-- PMP, for their leadership across the board 🌍. DC2 is now up to 12 member companies in the United States including Biomason, Blue Planet , Brimstone , CarbonBuilt, Chement, Fortera, Minus Materials, Urban Mining Industries - Pozzotive®, Prometheus Materials, Queens Carbon, Sublime Systems, and Terra CO2 Technology. Learn more about us at https://lnkd.in/eCXcDNsV
Readout of White House Convenings to Boost Clean Manufacturing | OSTP | The White House
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Last week saw not one but two major events in Washington, D.C., coalescing the most influential buyers and policy makers in decarbonized cement and concrete. Our CEO Leah Ellis and VP of Policy & BD Joe Hicken attended a workshop put on by the #FirstMoversCoalition U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and World Economic Forum, focused on catalyzing the market for industrial decarbonization. The workshop underscored the urgency to decarbonize and the supportive policy environment provided by recent legislative measures such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, funding Sublime is accessing through our award from the DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations. These policies build on innovative partnership models, such as demand aggregation and coalition financing, to create a robust support system for cement’s decarbonization. By assembling all players involved — from producers to end-customers to policy makers — we can seize this moment and follow in the successful footsteps of clean energy generation. Furthering this momentum, on Friday, the White House held its first ever Concrete Innovation Summit to highlight progress in reducing emissions, accelerating commercialization of new clean technologies, and building the momentum of increasing customer demand for higher performance and lower emission products. Leah Ellis was honored to attend with fellow innovators advancing low-carbon cement, as well as critical thought leaders and buyers who are essential in its rollout to the market. The event also unveiled exciting new federally funded initiatives in both the deployment and R&D of low-carbon cement. We are so grateful for the federal government's embrace of industrial decarbonization as the next frontier for fighting climate change, particularly given the public sector buys more than half of all cement in the U.S. We often say that one major challenge with decarbonizing cement was bringing awareness to a legacy material that is so ubiquitous it is nearly invisible. No more — low-carbon cement is capturing attention on some of the biggest world stages and energizing a global community of buyers, policy makers, and inventors who are committed to its role in reducing global CO2 emissions. Thank you to the incredible teams of organizers, we look forward to much more. Learn more about the White House event and new initiatives here: https://lnkd.in/exrt7KKk #KeepBuilding #FirstMoversCoalition #WEF24 #industrialdecarbonization #lowcarboncement