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 12,375 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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"When people think of clean tech, they think of wind turbines and solar panels and EVs—and I also want people to think about cement," Leah Ellis said. "I think people like being made aware of the things that were invisible to them." We are grateful to Sierra Club's magazine for making cement a bit less invisible with this story on Sublime in their Fall 2024 special issue on the clean energy transition. Julia Sklar visited our Somerville HQ to detail our true-zero manufacturing technology and catch our cement testing team in action ("You couldn't imagine how specific some of the test methods are for cement," Michael Sheahan rightfully shared). We also visited the site of our first commercial project with WS Development at One Boston Wharf. Get your copy of the magazine here: https://lnkd.in/e735AMku #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #climatetech #cleanenergytransition #sustainablebuilding
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“Sublime came from recognizing a problem where there’s clearly an unmet need, and getting on it early when others hadn’t yet recognized its importance, then moving quickly to a solution that you can scale with speed to mitigate climate change. This is all just very MIT to me. We really want to focus on doing things that matter — not just to other academics, but to society and to the world," our co-founder Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang told MIT News. Not only was our technology invented at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but was first commercially deployed by MIT alum and MIT Center for Real Estate lecturer Yanni Tsipis in WS Development's net-zero-carbon office building in Boston, demonstrating the power of technology transfer from "incubator to industry." It was an honored to by featured by MIT News to tie this story together. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/ekVZ-fbJ #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #sustainableconstruction #industrialdecarbonization #climatetech
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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!