Sublime Systems

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

“Sublime came from recognizing a problem where there’s clearly an unmet need, and getting on it early when others hadn’t yet recognized its importance, then moving quickly to a solution that you can scale with speed to mitigate climate change. This is all just very MIT to me. We really want to focus on doing things that matter — not just to other academics, but to society and to the world," our co-founder Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang told MIT News. Not only was our technology invented at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but was first commercially deployed by MIT alum and MIT Center for Real Estate lecturer Yanni Tsipis in WS Development's net-zero-carbon office building in Boston, demonstrating the power of technology transfer from "incubator to industry." It was an honored to by featured by MIT News to tie this story together. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/ekVZ-fbJ #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #sustainableconstruction #industrialdecarbonization #climatetech

We are excited to welcome another climate tech powerhouse to our board, Bill Brady! He’s an expert in innovation-led transformation of traditional industries and the scaling of new industrial technologies in big and small companies alike. He’s helped build Mascoma LLC, Monolith, and Kula Bio into into the companies they are today, following a successful 23-year tenure at Cabot Corporation, a $3B specialty chemical company. We are grateful to have his expertise in scaling manufacturing and building commercial relationships between big and small enterprises, critical as we develop our electrochemical cement manufacturing technology to have swift and massive impact on global CO2 emissions! #KeepBuilding #leadership #climatetech

We recently welcomed NBC Boston Stations to our Somerville, MA-based pilot lab, to discuss our true-zero approach for manufacturing cement, how we test our material to ensure it performs the way the construction industry needs it to, how our forthcoming Holyoke, MA plant will help us scale our technology across the globe, and much more! Great to see our partners Yanni Tsipis WS Development featured at the site of our first commercial project, too! Catch the full story here: https://lnkd.in/ezBzKkWf #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #sustainablebuilding #climatetech

Thank you to Justin R. Wolf for covering the "natural partnership" between our Sublime and Vineyard Offshore. This is a great read on how renewable energy developers can look to clean materials for their projects, and how the growth of renewable energy provides a welcome blueprint for bringing low-carbon cement to the mainstream. We are also glad to see Engine Ventures mentioned for their work in connecting us!

Holyoke, MA, the site of our forthcoming first commercial manufacturing facility, is home to the largest Puerto Rican population per capita in the U.S. outside of Puerto Rico. The community hosts an annual Fiestas de Patronales de Holyoke to celebrate this heritage, and our team (Patrick Beaudry, Andrés López, EIT, Becky Gallagher, Kelly Lem, Raul Castillo Castro) had the pleasure of attending it last week and weekend for the second year in a row. We answered questions about our build out plans there, got to know our future neighbors a bit better, and happily gave away many coqui figurines made out of Sublime Cement™. Thank you to our community for being wonderful hosts as always — we are excited to #KeepBuilding with you all in Holyoke!

It takes a village to bring low-carbon cement to market, and we are grateful for the support of leading thinkers at RMI and the Center for Green Market Activation market on this as the coalesce demand across leading buyers and infrastructure owners like Meta!

"More American jobs, more American innovation, it's a no brainer," says our VP of policy & BD Joe Hicken about the introduction of the second bipartisan bill introduced to accelerate low-carbon cement, concrete, and asphalt. We'll say it again: public sector support for low-carbon cement means we can deploy twice as fast and address the climate crisis with the urgency it demands. All while strengthening American manufacturing, jobs, and innovation. We applaud U.S. Representatives Valerie Foushee and Max Miller for introducing this legislation in the House, complementing the bipartisan Concrete & Asphalt Innovation Act introduced earlier in the Senate by Senators Thom Tillis and Christopher Coons. These bills strengthen R&D and collaboration across federal and state agencies to accelerate low-carbon building materials, fund grants for purchase at the state DOT level, and enable agencies to secure low-carbon materials in advance, unleashing critical buyer signals to the broader market. We are grateful for the collaboration between lawmakers, innovators, and industrial decarbonization thought leaders in advancing these bills, including Decarbonized Cement & Concrete Alliance, ClearPath, Clean Air Task Force, Sierra Club, and World Resources Institute. Learn more about the legislation here: https://lnkd.in/gfw4dxQN #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #industrialdecarbonization #Americanmanufacturing #innovation

Looking forward to talking about Sublime Systems at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Cement and Concrete Decarbonization Annual Event today!

The Decarbonized Cement and Concrete Alliance (DC2) is excited to support the new Center of Excellence for Low Carbon Cement and Concrete announced at The White House last week (https://lnkd.in/exrt7KKk). This initiative is exceedingly helpful for advancing our collective mission to build a sustainable infrastructure with innovative materials and processes. At DC2, we understand the concerns engineers and contractors have about adopting new materials in construction. To address this, one of our five policy pillars has focused on early adopter platforms and advocacy for public sector initiatives that facilitate trusted validation. This approach helps build confidence in new production processes, new technologies, and new products by providing a clearing house for data and transparency. The new center's establishment, launched by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), marks a significant step in making the validation process more efficient for the marketplace. By leveraging the power of the public sector, we can accelerate the adoption of low-carbon solutions, ensuring they meet industry expectations and gain widespread acceptance. Our compliments to the hardworking folks at IEDO, including Paul Majsztrik and Isabelle Sgro Rojas-- PMP, for their leadership across the board 🌍. DC2 is now up to 12 member companies in the United States including Biomason, Blue Planet , Brimstone , CarbonBuilt, Chement, Fortera, Minus Materials, Urban Mining Industries - Pozzotive®, Prometheus Materials, Queens Carbon, Sublime Systems, and Terra CO2 Technology. Learn more about us at https://lnkd.in/eCXcDNsV