The owner of a cement plant in Florence has
started design and engineering work with the
goal of making it the first such U.S. facility to use
carbon-capture technology on a commercial scale.
LafargeHolcim, a global building materials
supplier, has received a $1.5 million grant from
the U.S. Department of Energy to research and
develop a system to capture and sequester the
plant’s carbon dioxide emissions. The Swiss-
based company is partnering with Svante Inc.,
a provider of carbon-capture technology, and
other firms.
Jamie Gentoso, the CEO of U.S. Cement at
LafargeHolcim, said the company worked with
Svante to build a pilot carbon-capture unit at a
plant in British Columbia.