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CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY44 CPI %u2013 Concrete Plant International %u2013 3 | 2025 www.cpi-worldwide.comBlue Planet%u00b4s materials, and underscores a trend in building. The scale of the global aggregates market (55 gt are mined each year) enables Blue Planet%u2019s process to effectively decarbonize the entire cement industry (with 8-9 gta CO2 emitted) at an anticipated moderate to low cost and without subsidies and reliance on alternative energy. California, through strong environmental regulations and economic decarbonization drivers, is poised to transform the second-largest concrete sector in the nation. While current legislation calls for carbon neutrality, with Blue Planet%u2019s approach, the sector can become a carbon sink. With nearly 10 million metric tons of annual concrete production and a sector value in the billions, this project speaks to a massive, long-term addressable market. Most critically, Blue Planet has secured a well-established, California-based post-demonstration commercialization partner %u2013 the Mitsubishi Cement Corporation. Through this partnership, Blue Planet is actively evaluating a commercial-scale facility, providing a direct pathway to the Southern California market and its unconstrained interest in a solution that can effectively reduce the embodied carbon footprint of concrete. Blue Planet%u2019s product development and marketing pathway includes several strategies to commercialize. This holistic approach realizes the rapidly evolving and dynamic nature of the market, the urgency of the climate crisis, the broad applications of the product, and the risk-averse culture pervading the sector:%u2022 Blue Planet licenses technology to other manufacturers.This strategy may apply to particular geographies, or kinds of emitters.%u2022 Blue Planet enters the market through development of mineralization hubs to be wholly or partially owned in partnership with parties in the building material value chain. In this model, Blue Planet would take an active role in developing the market for its synthetic limestone materials. %u2022 Blue Planet produces materials at various locations, sells and distributes them to concrete producers and related construction services providers. This would involve offtake agreements with concrete producersBlue Planet%u2019s carbon capture system reduces facility-level process CO2 emissions by at least 80% when compared to typical sector baselines and demonstrates a 90% capture rate for all particulate emissions, 50% capture of SOx, and 25% capture of NOx through mineralization. At the 5,000 tpa plant level, the scalability and cost-effectiveness of the technology will be further validated, indicating significant cost advantages over conventional amine-based capture methods. For production outputs, the system is projected to produce 2.25 tonnes of aggregate material for each 1 tonne of CO2 captured or processed. Thus a plant designed to capture 5,000 tpa would be sequestering approx. 20 tonnes of CO2 per day and produce 45 tonnes of aggregate (a 50% rail car gondola load). nNet Zero Concrete Slab %u2013 Concrete finisher finalizing concrete surface.Blue Planet Global Innovation Center %u2013 Located in Pittsburg, CA.FURTHER INFORMATIONBlue Planet Systems718 University Avenue, Suite 200Los Gatos, CA 95032, USAinfo@blueplanetsystems.comwww.blueplanetsystems.com