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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

The proliferation of clean energy catalyzed the founding of Sublime and our mission to decarbonize cement, so it is an honor and a full circle moment to welcome renewable energy developer Vineyard Offshore as a customer. They have committed to reserving up to 2,000 tons of our Sub lime Cement™ for their Vineyard Wind 2 project, should it be awarded. This is an excellent example of what an ecosystem of climate technology scale-up looks like in our state and beyond. Abundant clean energy enables new electrified technologies to emerge, who in turn become customers of renewables. And renewable energy proliferated in large part because of early public sector investments, providing a blueprint for how similar incentives can accelerate the next generation of decarbonization technologies. Our CEO Dr. Leah Ellis will be speaking about how other buyers can accelerate the clean energy transition with low-carbon cement, at an event today in Washington, D.C. put on by the World Economic Forum's First Movers Coalition. #KeepBuilding #cleanenergy #lowcarboncement #climatetech https://lnkd.in/gcQkrbqw

“It takes a village, you can’t do this as one person, you can’t do this as one team — you need teams of teams and this is what we got here today,” our CEO Dr. Leah Ellis explained recently on the site of our first commercial installation of Sublime Cement™.  We are humbled by our incredible partners, the people who are working hard to usher in our post-carbon future today. They have been generous with their knowledge, experience, resources, and time. We are confident that low-carbon cement and net-zero construction won’t need those labels in the future because they will become the standard, and it will be because of the hard work of these early adopters.  They include Jim Carreira, technical director of BOSTON SAND & GRAVEL CO, who has worked tirelessly with us to validate our cement in concrete and facilitate our use on job sites. It includes WS Development's Yanni Tsipis, who chose to incorporate Sublime Cement™ in a prominent section of the lobby of his One Boston Wharf building, with a plaque educating the building’s many tenants and visitors about the role low-carbon cement plays in fighting climate change.  In this video you can hear more about what inspires them and their organizations to “chart a course to a no-carbon future” (Yanni’s words) and about the “tidal wave” (Jim’s words) of low-carbon cement deployment that is here.  We are beyond honored to #KeepBuilding with them!  #lowcarboncement #sustainableconstruction #postcarbonfuture #climatetech

CNBC's Diana Olick took a look at our true-zero manufacturing technology for decarbonizing cement. WS Development's Yanni Tsipis was featured in the story, detailing our recent commercial project at One Boston Wharf, Boston's largest net-zero-carbon office building. Catch the full clip here: https://lnkd.in/eTKq9-VV #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #truezero #sustainableconstruction #postcarbonfuture

It was an honor to gather last week at the Massachusetts State House with Gov. Maura Healey and her administration, alongside the many impressive companies on this list working on breakthrough technologies in service of our planet. Impressively, but not surprisingly, Massachusetts had the highest number of companies per capita on the list!

Our CEO Dr. Leah Ellis spoke to Amy Feldman of Forbes about the "Cambrian explosion of cleantech 2.0," the public sector's support of industrial decarbonization, incumbent cement companies' embrace of new technologies, and much more. Catch the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/eq2wzMKy #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #industrialdecarbonization #climatetech #cleantech

Part 2 of Cat Clifford's Cipher News profile on Yet-Ming Chiang and why he "rocks" is out! That's not just a cement pun; you'll have to read the story to learn for yourself: https://lnkd.in/giBAK__k #KeepBuilding #climatetech #climateinnovation #entrepreneurship #lowcarboncement

"Climate is the biggest problem that I could think of tackling with the skill set that I have," our co-founder Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang told Cipher News. We are so grateful Yet has brought his expertise here and has been relentless in asking the big audacious questions that start new companies. For example: "how can we use the increasingly abundant, reliable, and cheap renewable energy to clean up some of the highest-emitting industries, like cement?" Our CEO and co-founder Dr. Leah Ellis describes it well: "He’s very cerebral. And so, he’s drawn to things that make his neurons fire. And then I think people who also like this tingly feeling in their brains, they come to him. And he’s very, very good at finding things that make people’s brains tingle." Read on for a terrific profile on Yet's research and entrepreneurial contributions to climate tech: https://lnkd.in/eCujmqfa Profiling Yet was an audacious task in and of itself, but writer Cat Clifford knocked it out of the park. We are so excited to see the second installment tomorrow! #KeepBuilding #climatetech #climateinnovation #lowcarboncement

At Sublime we rigorously test and validate the performance of our materials. To ensure the accuracy of those results, we even test our testing methods — and we recently passed with flying colors!! To determine the consistency and accuracy of our cement testing methods, our team participated in a Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL) Portland Cement Proficiency Program. We tested the same batch of portland cement (OPC) as 100 other testing labs across two key ASTM methods. The quality of OPC varies hugely from kiln-to-kiln and from time-to-time, which is why these test are so important! We are proud to share our team received the highest ranking (5/5) on the two key methods we routinely test: setting time (ASTM C191) and mortar strength (ASTM C109). Take a look at the below “bullseye” image to see just how accurate we are in our 28-day strength testing, for example. Ensuring the accuracy of our testing methods on portland cement is critical in validating the data we share around our new low-carbon Sublime Cement™. This is a testament to our product R&D team's hard work and high standards in establishing and maintaining our testing equipment and procedures. There are so many things that have to work in parallel as we bring a new low-carbon cement to market, and sometimes things like testing and equipment maintenance are a bit more behind the scenes. Though sometimes unseen, they are essential (like cement itself!). And in this moment we are especially proud to give them the recognition and celebration they deserve! #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #productvalidation