CARBON2BUSINESS carbon capture and utilization project

The Carbon2Business project at our cement plant in Lägerdorf, Germany aims to capture more than 1.2 million tons of CO2 emissions annually. The captured CO₂ will be repurposed as an industrial raw material, and from 2029 cement production at Lägerdorf will be entirely net-zero.

In 2023, we received a grant from the EU Innovation Fund to advance the Carbon2Business project.

On 22 April 2024 we officially launched our Carbon2Business carbon, capture and utilization (CCU) project with a groundbreaking event in Lägerdorf, which will become one of the world’s first climate-neutral cement plants. 

With this project, Holcim is contributing to the development of a CO₂ economy in Germany. We have been present in Lägerdorf for 160 years, and this innovative project will benefit the community in the years to come. 

German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economics Dr. Robert Habeck and Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, Daniel Günther, were present at the ceremony together with Holcim Germany CEO Thorsten Hahn.

Carbon2Business is a carbon capture and utilization project that aims to create new value chains and develop technologies to help decarbonize industrial companies beyond the cement industry. 

• CO₂ will be captured from the cement manufacturing process using Oxyfuel technology – an “end-of-the-pipe" solution. The technology works by substituting combustion air with pure oxygen, producing a CO₂-rich flue gas. The gas is then cooled, purified and liquified, creating a highly pure CO₂ gas for use in other industries.
• The purified CO₂ will either be processed into e-methanol through methanol synthesis or reprocessed as a raw material, to produce plastics for example.