EnviroAdd

NEXT-GEN ACTIVATORS
TO REDUCE CEMENT CO2
Sept 29 – Oct 02
 AGENDA

01 Saint-Gobain Construction
Chemicals 04 Novel Cement Types

02 EnviroAdd Next-
Generation Activators 05 Case Studies

03 Mechanisms of Action 06 Economics

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 SAINT-GOBAIN CONSTRUCTION CHEMICALS
A SOLID HERITAGE AND A FORWARD-LOOKING VISION

1954
GRACE acquires
DEWEY & ALMY
2001
CHRYSO
joins MATERIS
1854
W.R. GRACE & CO
Foundation in Peru 2021
2014 CHRYSO
1931 CHRYSO
joins SAINT-GOBAIN
DEWEY & ALMY becomes an
invents cement 1942 independent 2024
additives and group
CHRYSOLEUM
concrete admixtures
Foundation in 2022
France 2016 CONSTRUCTION
GCP Applied CHEMICALS FOSROC
Technologies BUSINESS UNIT acquisition
Creation
creation Spin-off
from GRACE
2022 announcement
GCP
Applied Technologies
joins SAINT-GOBAIN

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 THE NEW CHRYSO UNIFIED BRAND
A UNIFIED BRAND, BOLD, MODERN, AND DISTINCTIVE FOR CEMENT ADDDITIVES AND CONCRETE ADMIXTURES

4 CECI EST LE NO M DE LA PRÉ SENTATION

 WE LEVERAGE THE BEST OF CHRYSO & GCP CONCRETE AND
CEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION
CEMENT PRODUCTION CONCRETE PRODUCTION STRUCTURE GCP ECLIPSE ®
DCI ® STRUX ®
Durability – Lif e Cycle

CHRYSO ®CONVERT
GCP CLARENA ®
Concrete returns

CHRYSO ®FIBRE UF-500

Biosourcing

ENVIRO ADD , CHRYSO ®QUAD CHRYSO ®ENVIRO MIX CHRYSO ®TURBOCAS T CHRYSO ®DEM E KLA CHRYSO ®MATURIX
OP TEV A® & TAVERO® GCP CLARENA ® GCP CO2ST ® REDUCERS Energy sa vings Biosourcing Low-carbon
CO2 reduct ion Usage of recycled CO2 we ight reduction concre te monitoring
CK Factor aggregate s/ circular
Energy ef fic iency econom y
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 CEMENT ADDITIVES GRINDING AIDS & CATALYSTS
OF CEMENT HYDRATION
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Making the full potential of cement
available swiftly

With ZERO capital investment

MAXIMIZING the ROI of plant’s

engineering efforts.
• Located in Błonie Pass at 35 km West of Warsaw
• Construction completed in August of 2013
• Open 5 days/week
• Capacity more than 24,000 ton/y
• Fully automatic production: product stability & high level of
performance.
• Able to supply Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,
Slovakia, Finland, Czech Republic, Hungary.

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 CEMENT ADDITIVE FAMILIES

GRINDING AIDS ACTIVATORS SPECIALTY ADDITIVES

• Improve grinding process efficiency • A.k.a. «Quality Improvers», • Provide a functionality to the
• Increase tons/hour & reduce «Strength Enhancers» cement
specific energy consumption • Significantly improve cement • e.g. Masonry performance,
• Enhance productivity, distribution performance and quality Chromium reduction
and provide cost savings • Increase strength, accelerate
setting, reduce water demand,...

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 EnviroAdd – A NEW CATEGORY OF CEMENT ACTIVATORS
2024 Launch

NEXT-GEN ACTIVATORS TO ENABLE SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE

CEMENT PRODUCERS TO REDUCE ALLOWED BY SGCC’S UNIQUE
CLINKER% AND CO2 EMISSIONS COMPETENCES & SERVICE MODEL

INTRODUCING A New chemicals and

combinations of
NEW PRODUCT
With superior performance
Vs. ‘conventional’ additives
CATEGORY
(i.e., OPTEVA®, AMA ).

Expert formulations, requiring

customization know-how

Typically used by cement plants at

significantly higher treatment cost
(€ / ton of cement).
Field application expertise
also important.

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 EnviroAdd ACTIVATORS – ROBUST PERFORMANCE

a s a s

EnviroAdd 3000
PRODUCT
was tested on eleven

MPa over the bank

CEM II/A-LL 42.5R cements
from around EU

ON AVERAGE,
it enhanced 2-day
strengths by 6 MPa and
28-day by 8 MPa

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 EnviroAdd – MECHANISMS OF CEMENT ACTIVATION
ENHANCING CEMENT HYDRATION VIA

Chemical 1 - Alite

Chemical 2 - Alite
Chemical 2 - Blank
Aluminate
Chemical 1
Chemical 2
Chemical 1 + Chemical 2

FASTER RATE OF HYDRATION PHASE-SPECIF ACTION IMPROVED MORPHOLOGY

Gartner E., Myers D., J. Am. Riding K. et al., Cem. and Concr. Nalet C., Nonat A., Cem. and
Ceram. Soc. 1993 Res. 2010 Concr. Res. 2016

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 EnviroAdd – MECHANISMS OF SCM ACTIVATION

OPC FLY ASH + LIMESTONE

+16% @ 1 Day +37% @ 1 Day
OPC OPC + FA + LS
4.5 4.5
Po wer (mW/g of cement)

4.0 Additive 4.0 No Additive

Title
3.5 3.5
3.0 3.0
No Additive Additive
2.5 With additive 2.5 With
2.0 2.0 additive
1.5 1.5
1.0 1.0
0.5 No additive 0.5 No additive
0.0 0.0
0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48
Time (h) Time (h)

FLY ASH LC3

+20% @ 1 Day +38% @ 1 Day
Pore refinement
OPC + FA
4.5 LC3 + Additive A
4.0
Po wer (mW/g of cement)

No Additive
3.5 LC3 + Additive B
3.0
Additive LC3 + Additive C LC3 with
2.5 additive A
LC3 Blank
2.0 With additive
1.5 LC3 blank
1.0
0.5 No additive
0.0 Time (hr) Pore entry radius (µm)
0 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48
Time (h)

Cheung J. et al, ICCC Beijing (2015)

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 EnviroAdd – ALLOWING SAME STRENGTHS
WITH NEW CEMENT TYPES

CEM I 52.5R → CEM II/A-LL 52.5R CEM II/A-LL 42.5R → CEM II/B-LL 42.R
• -8% clinker (+8% limestone) • -5% clinker (17,5% → 22,5%)
• CO2 avoidance of ~9% • CO2 avoidance of ~8%

CEM II/B-Q 42.5N A CEM II/A-LL 52.5R

(35% calcined clay) (20% limestone)
• +3MPa early strength, +9MPa late strength • BSA reduction from 6.000 to 5.400 cm2/g
• Mortar flowability improved ~80% • Mill output increased by ~44%

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 CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL APPLICATIONS

“TOP CLASS” FORMULATIONS:

SEVERAL INTERLINKED VARIOUS OBJECTIVES AND For a given cost, the maximum performance is achieved
VARIABLES CONSTRAINTS SPECIFIC
in a cement - additive system to plant /cement
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23
22
21
20
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2 da ys MP a
18
17
Cement chemistry Plant & market Chemical additives
and morphology requirements 16
15
14
13
12
11
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8
Cos t Inde x

NEED FOR CUSTOMIZED

Customized Addtives Overdosage of traditional additives
CEMENT ADDITIVE SOLUTION

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 EnviroAdd ACTIVATORS – CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS

CEMENT TYPE CEMENT CLASS

• Plotting best customized EnviroAdd product for each cement
(all different formulations) 32.5R,
52.5R, 2
• Noticeable ‘outliers’ in the higher end (up to +10 MPa at 2 days!) OPC, 4 5
CEM
• A with significantly lower costs for same performance II/B-M,
3
CEM
II/A-LL,
15
52.5N,
8 42.5R,
CEM 15
II/B-LL,
7
CEM
II/A-P, 1

COUNTRY ADDITIVE DOSAGE

Albania,
2 Finland,
UK, 6 3 300-600
g/t, 9
1300-
2500
g/t, 12
France,
Spain, 3
5

Romania,
1
Portugal Germany 900-1200
,2 ,3 g/t, 9
Italy, 5

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 EnviroAdd ACTIVATOR – CASE STUDY 1 (LC3)

INDUSTRIAL TRIAL ACHIEVED ROBUST INCREASE OF COMPRESSIVE STRENGTHS

WITH LC3-50 CEMENT • + 5 MPa at 1 day (+38%) with EnviroAdd “C”
(30% CALCINED CLAY, • + 8 MPa at 28 days (+18%) with EnviroAdd “B”.
15% LIMESTONE) • Customized Additive EnviroAdd “A” met cement plant’s target performance at all ages.

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COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AT
50 52
COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH

OPC 50 B A

28 DAY S (MP a)
40 +18%
LC3
LC3 48
30 LC3 + A
(MPa)

LC3 + A 46 Bla nk C
20 LC3 + B
LC3 + B 44 +38%
LC3 + C
10
LC3 + C 42

0 40
1 3 7 14 28 60 10 12 14 16 18
HYDRATIO N TIME (DAYS) COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AT 1 DAY (MPa)

CUSTOMIZED EnviroAdd ACTIVATORS ALLOW TO MEET THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF LOW -CLINKER CEMENTS

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 EnviroAdd ACTIVATOR – CASE STUDY 2 (COMPOSITE CEMENT)

ACHIEVED SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF SCM’s ADDITION

INDUSTRIAL TRIALS
• 4% Fly ash increase for CEM II/A-M(S-V) 42,5R
WITH CEM II/A-M (S-V)
42.5R, CEM II/A-S 52,5 R • 4% Slag increase for CEM II/A-S 52,5 R
• Increasing cement productivity by 10%.

CEM II/A-M
(S-V) 42,5 R
SAMPLE Alpine Alpine Alpine L.O.I. at
Dosage Date Blaine W/C IST Air 2d 7d 28d
DESCRIPTION 32µm 45µm 63µm 950°C
ID Hour Additive g/t GG/MM/YYYY cm2/g % % % % - min % MPa MPa MPa
14-1 8:0 0 - 10: 00 Blank 3050
Isomill 220 14.3.2023 404 0 5,8 0,7 0,1 2,84 0,29 196 5,6 26,6 45,8 57,8
14-2 10: 00 - 12: 00 XS 777 250 14.3.2023 447 0 6,0 0,9 0,3 3,02 0,29 175 4,7 28,9 47,5 59,0
14-3 12: 00 - 14: 00 XS 777 300 14.3.2023 386 4 6,5 0,7 0,2 2,95 0,29 193 4,2 25,8 44,3 57,8
14-4 14: 00 - 16: 00 XS 777 350 14.3.2023 382 6 6,1 1,0 0,3 2,91 0,29 183 4,4 26,6 46,0 59,3
14-5 16: 00 - 18: 00 XS 777 w ith 4% clinker subst . by 4 % FA 350 14.3.2023 407 6 5,4 0,6 0,0 2,68 0,29 191 5,5 25,5 44,5 59,5
14-6 18: 00 - 20: 00 XS 777 w ith aprox. 3 % SO3 350 14.3.2023 414 8 5,7 0,7 0,0 2,48 0,30 196 4,9 24,6 44,6 58,2

CUSTOMIZED EnviroAdd ACTIVATORS ALLOW TO MEET THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF LOW -CLINKER CEMENTS

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 EnviroAdd ACTIVATOR AFTER SWITCHING FROM 100%
FOSSIL FUELS TO PART RDF
CASE STUDY 3 (AF’S) -15%
Fossil Fuels • 2-3 MPa loss at all ages in
CEM I 52.5R
50% PET COKE AND 85% PET COKE AND 15%
50% FUEL OIL REFUSE-DERIVED FUEL
DRIVEN BY UNFAVORABLE
KILN CONDITIONS

• Reducing conditions
• More heterogeneous material
• Higher total alkali
• More low-reactivity alite

Image wi th = μm Image width = 640 μm

THE ADDITIVE
ALLOWED TO
ENTIRELY RECOVER
THE STRENGTH LOSS

DOSAGE 1D 2D 28D

g/t MPa MPa MPa

Image wi th = 5 μm Image wi th = 5 μm NO ADDITIVE - 23,8 36,5 60,8

REFERENCE ADDITIVE 3300 28,3 41,0 64,2

EnviroAdd ACTIVATORS OFFSET THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF
SWITCHING FROM FOSSIL FUELS TO “GREEN” FUELS NEXT-GEN ADDITIVE 1500 30,3 43,6 71,6

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 EnviroAdd ACTIVATORS – VALUE TO CEMENT PLANTS

CEM II/A-LL 42.5R → CEM II/B-LL 42.5R (20 → 25% lmst), 500.000 TPA clinker
-8% clinker
-6% CO2
• + , €/cem ton spend on EnviroAdd Activator Vs. ‘Regular’ Activator (total spen of , €/t)
• - , €/cem ton savings from energ an clinker re uction (inclu ing , €/cem ton savings from ETS)
• = , 5 €/cem ton savings from ‘Next-Gen’ Activator Vs. ‘Regular’ Activator

900.000 € savings per year for the cement plant ~ +1,5 POINTS EBITDA -8% clinker
-6% CO2
, €

,5 € 1,68 €
+5 tph or -1.4 kWh/ t
1,75 €
, €

+3 Mpa Vs. Prev.

add. or + 5% limestione €/tCO ,
20% shortage

7, €
5,9 €

Var iable costs cement previou s addi tive's Add itive tr eatmen t cost Ene rgy savings Valu e o f clinker Add itio nal val ue from Var iable cost cemen t
prod uction / cem ton treatme nt cost / cem ton / cem ton (grin ding aid repl ace me nt with CO2 co sts (e.g., ETS prod uction with
contribution) / cem ton limesto ne / ce m ton allo wan ce ) / cem ton CRO WN-2 / cem ton

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 CURBING CO2 AT THE SOURCE

Cement activators

CHRYSO & GCP SOLUTIONS

15 mT* CHRYSO®AMA 100,
CHRYSO® ICARE, OPTEVA®

of CO2 saved in 2023

New generation
superplasticizers &
81 Countries plasticizers used in concrete
EnviroMix®, CHRYSO®Quad,
*Third-party calculation evaluated by Deloitte CHRYSO®Optima 1000, ADVACAST®

Liquid Screed
Cemfloor®, Mobicem®

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 01 A NEW GENERATION OF ACTIVATORS

A PROPRIETARY METHOD TO
02 DEPLOY THEM SUCCESSFULLY

ALLOWING TO REDUCE CEMENT

03 CO2 BY UP TO 12%

04 LET’S GO SAVE OUR PLANET TOGETHER

KEY
TAKEAWAYS
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