Driven by the “double carbon” goal, the low-carbon cement industry has broad development prospects

Low-carbon cement is a new type of building material with the advantages of good durability, low carbon emissions, and low energy consumption. Low-carbon cement production usually adopts two technical approaches: one refers to reducing the amount of carbon dioxide produced by the decomposition of carbonates; the other refers to reducing the amount of carbon dioxide produced by reducing energy consumption. At present, my country’s low-carbon cement industry is still in its infancy, and the products have not been used on a large scale.

my country is a major cement producer. Driven by downstream demand, my country’s cement industry maintains a stable development trend. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, my country’s cement output will reach 2.38 billion tons in 2021, a year-on-year decrease of 0.4%. Cement is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, with 1.0 tons of cement producing at least 0.6 tons of carbon dioxide. Against this background, low-carbon cement emerged as the times require.

Low-carbon cement has the advantages of energy saving, environmental protection, good quality, etc., and is widely used in the field of building materials. With the rapid economic development, the prosperity of my country’s building materials industry continues to improve. According to the “Implementation Plan for Carbon Peaking in the Building Materials Industry” jointly released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other four departments in November 2022, during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the comprehensive energy consumption level of my country’s cement clinker unit products will be reduced by more than 3.0%. Benefiting from the deepening of the concept of green environmental protection, the development of low-carbon cement as a green building material continues to accelerate.

According to the “2022-2027 China Low Carbon Cement Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report” shows that at present, the mainstream products in the low-carbon cement market include BCT cement, high belite cement, multi-component high admixture cement, Alinit cement, ecological cement, Aether cement, etc. BCT cement was invented by the German Heidelberg Company. Its raw materials include industrial by-products such as gypsum, limestone, fly ash, marl and other industrial waste residues. The carbon dioxide emissions generated when producing this product are 70.0% of traditional cement clinker. High Belite cement refers to cement clinker made from Belite as the dominant mineral. my country achieved industrial production of this product in the 1990s.

​​ ​​The major global low-carbon cement manufacturers are concentrated in Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea, including the United States CEMEX, Japan Environmental Cement Co., Ltd., South Korea’s Ssangyong Group, etc. Anhui Conch Cement Co., Ltd., Beijing BBMG Group Co., Ltd., Hunan Jinshan Cement Co., Ltd., and China Building Materials Group Co., Ltd. are my country’s leading low-carbon cement companies. Driven by the “double carbon” goal, my country’s cement production companies are transforming in a green and low-carbon direction, driving competition in the low-carbon cement market to become increasingly fierce.

Industry analysts said that low-carbon cement has the advantages of environmental protection, long life and high quality, and has broad application prospects in the field of building materials. In recent years, driven by the “double carbon” goal, the prosperity of my country’s low-carbon cement industry has continued to increase. The increasingly strong market demand for segmented products will provide impetus to the development of the low-carbon cement industry. Benefiting from the continuous technological innovation of local companies, the concentration of my country’s low-carbon cement industry will increase.