Amazon & Brimstone Advance Decrease-Carbon Cement Collaboration

Final Up to date on: seventh August 2025, 10:27 pm

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Brimstone this week introduced profitable outcomes from exams of Brimstone’s lower-carbon Atypical Portland Cement (OPC) to be used in concrete building with plans for extra complete testing to be carried out in 2025 and 2026. On the energy of the preliminary testing outcomes, Amazon has signed a business settlement to order annual volumes of Brimstone’s OPC and supplementary cementitious supplies (SCM) from its forthcoming plant.

The third-party exams had been designed in collaboration with Amazon’s concrete consultants to judge the workability, compressive energy, and different key properties of Brimstone’s concrete supplies primarily based on Amazon slab combine designs. The profitable check outcomes demonstrated that Brimstone’s OPC carried out in accordance with ASTM C150 necessities and labored comparably nicely with the traditional supplies at present utilized in Amazon buildings.

“These preliminary outcomes are encouraging and exhibit the potential for Brimstone’s modern supplies to scale throughout our buildings portfolio and cut back the carbon footprint of concrete,” mentioned Asad Jafry, Director of International Power, Sustainability & Automation at Amazon.

Constructing on these outcomes, the 2 firms plan to conduct extra in depth concrete exams to judge sturdiness, sulfate resistance, mixture reactivity potential, and different key properties throughout a broader vary of concrete combine designs and purposes. This expanded testing program will make the most of bigger volumes of fabric produced from Brimstone’s facility in Oakland, CA.

“Brimstone has developed a extra environment friendly, economical, and sustainable course of for producing industry-standard supplies that can be utilized as we speak with standardized, recognized testing applications, which permits for quick market adoption,” mentioned Cody Finke, co-founder and CEO of Brimstone. “Our collaboration with Amazon proves that time. As a result of Brimstone makes ASTM C150 Atypical Portland Cement, essentially the most broadly used cement on the planet, at aggressive costs, our path to commercialization is well-defined with present regulation, know-how, and materials security protocols.”

The businesses introduced they signed a business settlement to safe a future provide of Brimstone’s supplies within the coming years, pending profitable completion of testing and commercialization to scale up necessities.

About Brimstone

Brimstone developed a breakthrough course of to co-produce a number of industrial supplies, together with portland cement, supplementary cementitious supplies, and smelter grade alumina. The corporate was based in 2019 to develop next-generation industrial processes optimized for economics, effectivity, and sustainability. Brimstone has raised greater than $80M up to now from main buyers, together with Breakthrough Power Ventures, DCVC, Collaborative Fund, Amazon Local weather Pledge, Fifth Wall, S2G Ventures, Acceler8, GVP Local weather, Affect Science Ventures, Osage College Companions, SystemIQ, and Kajima Ventures. To study extra or get in contact, please go to Brimstone.com.