SigmaRoc has introduced the UK’s first cement-free concrete building block under a new brand – Greenbloc.
SigmaRoc’s new Greenbloc range materially reduces the carbon footprint of these blocks when compared to a traditional product.
Greenbloc is completely cement free and provides on average a significant net reduction in embodied CO2 (‘eCO2’) of 77% per concrete block, resulting in the following specific decreases:
- an average reduction of 1.1kg of eCO2 per concrete block;
- an average reduction of 2.7 tonnes of eCO2 per average semi-detached house;
- these average reductions are equivalent to the CO2 emitted by an average household’s electricity consumption for four years.
The product is produced by SigmaRoc’s PPG platform at its various production facilities. Following extensive research and development and initial trials throughout 2020, the product has been well received by the market with strong interest from several leading national building materials merchants. Further sizes and specifications of concrete building blocks will be released over the next weeks and months, extending the Greenbloc range.
Max Vermorken, CEO of SigmaRoc, commented: “Our Greenbloc range and brand is the brainchild of our innovation and technical teams. It addresses a key challenge in the building products industry, the embodied CO2 in one of the most widely used building materials: the concrete block. Greenbloc is only the start of a range of sustainable alternatives to our product offering as we Invest, Improve, Integrate and Innovate.”
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