Under the background of carbon neutrality and carbon peak strategies, the low-carbon concrete market has broad development space

Low-carbon concrete is concrete that achieves low-carbon emissions throughout the entire life cycle, from raw material production, to the production process, concrete service use, maintenance and repair, to dismantling. The performance of low-carbon concrete is similar to that of other concretes. It has the characteristics of less soil bleeding, good cohesion, and excellent plasticity. However, in terms of reducing carbon footprint, low-carbon concrete is far superior to other concretes. In the context of carbon neutrality and carbon peak strategies, Under the current situation, energy conservation and carbon reduction have become the mainstream development trend of many industries, and the attention of the low-carbon concrete market has increased accordingly.

my country is a major concrete producer. According to incomplete statistics from China Concrete Network, in 2021, the output of my country’s commercial concrete industry will be 3.06 billion cubic meters, a year-on-year increase of 5.53%. Concrete is the second most consumed material in the world after water and is widely used in construction, bridges, tunnels, roads, sewage treatment systems and other fields. my country is a country with large carbon emissions. Due to the huge consumption of concrete, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted is at a relatively high level. Therefore, there is an urgent need for energy conservation and emission reduction of concrete, and the market demand for low-carbon concrete is broad.

In terms of policy, on October 26, 2021, the “Carbon Peak Action Plan before 2030” issued by the State Council mentioned that it is necessary to strengthen the research and development and application of low-carbon building materials products such as new cementitious materials, low-carbon concrete, and wood and bamboo building materials; 2021 At the end of the year, the China Concrete and Cement Products Association released the “14th Five-Year Plan Development Guidelines for the Concrete and Cement Products Industry”. Low carbon, green, innovation, intelligence and high quality have become the highlights of the industry’s development.

According to the “2022-2027 China Low Carbon Concrete Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report released by the Industrial Research Center, Low-carbonization is one of the mainstream trends in the future development of the concrete market. Over the years, in order to reduce the carbon emissions of concrete, my country has made various attempts on low-carbon concrete roads. At present, low-carbon concrete innovation work mainly focuses on low-carbon fuels. , low-carbon mixed cement, and carbon capture/utilization/storage technology.

Domestic low-carbon concrete-related R&D companies include Qingqing Zero Carbon (Beijing) Technology, Hebei Tuochuang Yuanwei Technology, etc. As a new type of concrete, my country’s low-carbon concrete market is still in its early stages of development. Its commercialization in construction is low. Industry development still faces problems such as the lack of quantitative evaluation standards and systems, immature carbon sequestration and production processes, and weak corporate R&D capabilities. .

Industry analysts said that my country is a large country of carbon emissions, and the carbon emissions of concrete are at a relatively high level. Under the background of the Peak Strategy, concrete energy conservation and emission reduction work is crucial. Low-carbon concrete meets the needs of green and low-carbon development and is the future market development trend. However, at present, the scale of low-carbon concrete use in my country is small, and the future market has a relatively large scale. Big room for development.