Capsol Technologies ASA has been awarded an engineering study for the CapsolEoP® (end-of- pipe) carbon capture technology at a cement plant in Cauldon, in Stoke on Trent, by Aggregate Industries UK Ltd. The full-scale potential for carbon capture from the plant is over 600 000 tonnes of CO2 per annum. Aggregate Industries UK operates a dry-process cement plant and is one of the leading providers of building materials in the UK. The plant is part of Peak Cluster, which aims to cut over three million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually from cement, lime and energy-from- waste facilities from 2030.

The CO2 from the plant will be geologically stored through the nearby MNZ Cluster or HyNet North West. The contract covers the technology supplier input for a feasibility study, as well as further pre-FEED engineering if successful in the technology selection for the project. The feasibility study has received funding from the UK Government's Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF).

Aggregate Industries UK's engineer is Petrofac, a leading global engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company. The cement industry is one of the world's largest hard-to-abate emitters accounting for approximately 8% of global CO2 emissions, and one of Capsol Technologies' key segments. Carbon capture is the most efficient solution to decarbonising cement production, where up to 60% of the CO2 emissions come directly from the conversion of calcium carbonate to clinker.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that the cement industry will account for 170 million tonnes of captured CO2 in 2030, rapidly growing to 480 million tonnes in 2035 and 1.3 gigatonnes in 2050.