Concrete4Change

What Concrete4Change does

Concrete4Change is a UK-based, privately held advanced materials company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Nottingham. It is an R&D-stage venture developing proprietary technology to mineralise CO2 directly into concrete, aiming to permanently store carbon emissions within the concrete matrix and thereby decarbonise cement and concrete production. The core value proposition targets the high-carbon footprint of conventional concrete by embedding CO2 into the finished material via a novel mineralisation process rather than capturing and storing it separately. The company is led by a small executive team (CEO Sid Pourfalah, CTO Michael Wise, CCO Dalraj Nijjar) and operates with 11–50 employees, consistent with a deep-tech pilot venture. Its primary customer segment is concrete manufacturers, with whom it conducts pilot projects to integrate the mineralisation technology into production; strategic investor-customer relationships (notably with Goldbeck) point to a co-development go-to-market rather than a transactional sales motion. The business model relies on non-dilutive grant funding (UK Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, European Innovation Council) and venture equity (Zacua Ventures, Counteract, Siam Cement Group, Seedrs, SDGx, Sustainable Ventures), totalling roughly £4.3M across six funding events through January 2024, with no disclosed revenue, pricing, or commercial product launches. The company remains pre-commercial, with monetisation mechanics — licensing, offtake, equipment sales, or royalties — yet to be articulated in public sources.

Name

Concrete4Change

Legal name

Concrete4Change

Website

https://concrete4change.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Concrete4Change is a Nottingham-based, venture-backed R&D company developing proprietary CO2 mineralisation technology that permanently stores carbon within concrete, serving concrete manufacturers through pilot integration partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Carbon Capture and Mineralisation Technology for Construction Materials

NAICS

Other Concrete Product Manufacturing (327390)

SIC

Miscellaneous Chemical Products (2890), Industrial Inorganic Chemicals (2810)

akta.pro primary industry

Cementitious Binders & Additives (Fly Ash, Slag, Silica Fume, Lime) (IMADAAAH)

Keywords

• CO2 mineralisation technology
• Concrete decarbonisation
• Carbon capture materials
• Sustainable construction chemicals
• Carbon-negative concrete

Headquarters

HQ city

Nottingham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Concrete4Change is an R&D company developing proprietary technology that mineralises CO2 directly into concrete, permanently storing carbon emissions within the concrete structure. The company works with concrete manufacturers through pilot projects to integrate this mineralisation technology into concrete production processes, enabling decarbonisation of cement and concrete outputs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CO2 Mineralisation Technology for Concrete

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Holcim: One of the world's largest cement and concrete producers, with an aggressive decarbonisation roadmap and direct strategic investments into competing CO2-mineralisation startups. Represents both a potential customer for Concrete4Change and a competing internal development threat.
• Heidelberg Materials: Major global cement and aggregates producer with a stated net-zero roadmap and active trial programmes with CO2-mineralisation startups. Serves as both a prospective customer base and a benchmark incumbent that could adopt or bypass Concrete4Change's technology.

Emerging players

• Blue Planet Systems: Produces synthetic limestone aggregates from captured CO2 for use in concrete. Adjacent CO2-to-concrete-material technology with comparable end-customer use cases, though the company has focused more on aggregate substitution than additive-based mineralisation.
• Beton3R / CarbonCo (EU-based CCU concrete additive providers): European CO2-utilisation concrete additive developers with comparable GTM targeting EU cement and ready-mix customers. Geographic and segment overlap with Concrete4Change makes them a relevant emerging peer in the same regulatory and customer environment.
• Brimstone (CarbonCure's lime venture / California Carbon Cure): Brimstone produces carbon-negative Portland cement using calcium silicate rock rather than limestone. Competes in the broader low-carbon cement additive/binder market and shares a customer overlap with Concrete4Change at cement and concrete producers.

Direct peers

• CarbonCure Technologies: Canadian company that injects CO2 into fresh ready-mix concrete during batching, mineralising it into calcium carbonate. Targets the same concrete manufacturer customer base and competes for the same decarbonisation budget, although its mechanism (injection during batching) differs from Concrete4Change's approach.
• Carbon Upcycling Technologies: Uses CO2 to produce performance-enhancing supplementary cementitious materials. Directly comparable because it sits at the intersection of CO2 utilisation and concrete additive manufacturing, addressing the same concrete decarbonisation pain point as Concrete4Change.
• CarbonCure Concrete Products: CarbonCure's commercial-ready CO2-injected ready-mix and precast systems are widely deployed with major concrete producers in North America. Provides a template of how a CO2-mineralising concrete technology can scale that Concrete4Change would be benchmarked against.
• Solidia Technologies: Develops CO2-cured concrete and binders that sequester CO2 during the curing process. Competes in the same market segment of low-carbon concrete technologies targeting cement producers and precast concrete manufacturers.
• Vateris: Direct competitor developing CO2 mineralisation technology that produces vaterite-based calcium carbonate for concrete and other performance materials. Backed by Holcim, Heidelberg Materials and Cemex, making it the most directly comparable peer to Concrete4Change in terms of technology approach and customer base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/concrete4change

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors9 records

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M&A

Investments

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