By Mark S. Kuhar The only company in the world using biology to commercially produce cement, Biomason, employs natural microorganisms to grow biocement in ambient temperatures without emitting carbon dioxide. Yes, you heard that right. Laboratory grown cement. Its patented biocement technology mimics nature’s use of carbon as a building block, creating cement in a biological, circular system, rather than…
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Growing Cement?
March 1, 2022 – Biomason, a Durham, N.C.-based startup that’s using microorganisms to “grow” cement, raised $65 million in Series C funding led by venture capital firm 2150. Other investors include Celesta Capital, Novo Holdings and Martin Marietta Materials. Per FastCompany’s Adele Peters, “The company starts with recycled aggregate, the tiny bits of material that cement holds together in concrete. Then it adds…
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