C-Crete Pours World’s First Basalt-Based Concrete

C-Crete Technologies has deployed the world’s first basalt-based concrete, a significant move forward in the company’s development of eco-conscious construction materials. The recent pour at 7200 Woodlawn in Seattle, Washington was for a 20 ton, slab-on-grade outdoor concrete foundation for a loading dock stem wall and partial ramp replacement, using basalt as the primary binder entirely, replacing Portland cement. This pour builds upon previous successful pours at the same building, called Hubbard’s Corner, bringing the total to about 140 tons of C-Crete’s cement-free concretes, each employing a distinct feedstock, such as zeolite or basalt.

At the core of C-Crete’s innovation lies its patented high-performance, cement-free binder technology that uses different local materials as feedstocks, and which produces almost no CO2 in its manufacturing, and continues to absorb it from the air over time. Its scalability and cost-parity with conventional cement make it a viable alternative to ordinary Portland cement – a notorious contributor to global CO2 emissions.

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