Sublime Systems

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations has selected Sublime Systems to receive an $87 million investment as part of the single largest industrial decarbonization effort in U.S. history!! Our project will play an important role in decarbonizing the cement sector by accelerating our true-zero manufacturing technology to first commercial scale in Holyoke, Mass., which was once known as the "Paper City of the World." The DoE is playing an admirable role in the decarbonization of heavy industry, with catalytic funding that allows companies like us to move faster than would have otherwise been possible and deploy our carbon avoidance technology with the urgency needed to meet the world’s net-zero-by-2050 goals.? While scaling the fossil-fuel-free technology to produce the cement of our post-carbon future, we are excited to be simultaneously strengthening the American manufacturing base and bringing great jobs to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where we got our start. We are proudly partnering with the United Steelworkers (USW) — the single largest industrial union in North America — to support our future employees’ right to organize and to train the workforce needed for our electrochemical cement manufacturing. The City of Holyoke and Mayor Joshua A. Garcia have been so forward thinking in welcoming us and embracing their role in the new clean manufacturing era. The clean transition can be a just transition — and we are just getting started.? Together, with our 33 fellow selectees, we’ll: ?????Transform the industrial sector with new emissions-slashing technologies.? ??????Strengthen American manufacturing competitiveness.?? ????Create and maintain good-paying jobs.? Sublime's award selection was featured in Brad Plumer of The New York Times' coverage of the Industrial Demonstrations Program, here: https://lnkd.in/eVzt5zqv #KeepBuilding #OCED #IndustrialDemonstrationsProgram #industrialdecarbonization #lowcarboncement #hardtoabate #climateinnovation #netzero2050

Great to see some commercial/commercialising disruptors in discussion with Kerri Fox - Shreya Dave of Via Separations , Leah Ellis of Sublime Systems and Martin Keighley of CarbonFree (some of you will have heard my podcast with Martin trom late last year). Kerri’s now Operating Partner at Engine Ventures but of course has all the experience from leading the funding of Carbon Engineering… a great set up for a discussion on the things that worked and leasons learned: - size your FOAK appropriately.. big enough to have impact but small enough to be fundable - you will meet many hurdles, not just the ones in view - team and individual resilience is essential - still waiting in the ultimate incentive - the incentive for co2 avoided and not just co2 stored - pivot your business model as you grow.. its not a fixed point and you can add value in many ways nstead of just focusing in the green premium - deployment is a distinct skill from innovation - build your team early with this in mind … so many more points but these are my highlights from this really inspiring panel.. Decarb Connect #foak #climateleadership #climatetech

Our CEO Dr. Leah Ellis is speaking tomorrow at Decarb Connect?Decarb?TechInvest, about raising capital for FOAK projects! She'll be in a great line-up — alongside Trevor Best, Shashank Samala, Martin Keighley and Kerri Fox — to talk through financing and scaling to commercialize breakthrough technologies, like our true-zero cement manufacturing. Will we see you there? #decarbconnect #DCTI24 #decarbtechinvest #decarbonization #climatetech #foak #firstofakind #raisingcapital

Over the past two weeks we've had the pleasure of connecting with our Holyoke neighbors some more. First, at the Holyoke Safe Neighborhood Initiative's Back-to-School fair, where organizers handed out 2500+ backpacks with school supplies, gave haircuts, supplied clothes, and generally got their community off to an amazing start for the school year. Then we partnered with OneHolyoke Community Development Corporation on their Community Walk. Our water station was in the perfect location; across the street from our future first commercial manufacturing plant on Water St! Thanks to the incredible organizers and partners there; we are so excited to #KeepBuilding in Holyoke! #communityengagement #lowcarboncement #sustainablebuilding

"When people think of clean tech, they think of wind turbines and solar panels and EVs—and I also want people to think about cement," Leah Ellis said. "I think people like being made aware of the things that were invisible to them." We are grateful to Sierra Club's magazine for making cement a bit less invisible with this story on Sublime in their Fall 2024 special issue on the clean energy transition. Julia Sklar visited our Somerville HQ to detail our true-zero manufacturing technology and catch our cement testing team in action ("You couldn't imagine how specific some of the test methods are for cement," Michael Sheahan rightfully shared). We also visited the site of our first commercial project with WS Development at One Boston Wharf. Get your copy of the magazine here: https://lnkd.in/e735AMku #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #climatetech #cleanenergytransition #sustainablebuilding

“Sublime came from recognizing a problem where there’s clearly an unmet need, and getting on it early when others hadn’t yet recognized its importance, then moving quickly to a solution that you can scale with speed to mitigate climate change. This is all just very MIT to me. We really want to focus on doing things that matter — not just to other academics, but to society and to the world," our co-founder Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang told MIT News. Not only was our technology invented at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but was first commercially deployed by MIT alum and MIT Center for Real Estate lecturer Yanni Tsipis in WS Development's net-zero-carbon office building in Boston, demonstrating the power of technology transfer from "incubator to industry." It was an honored to by featured by MIT News to tie this story together. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/ekVZ-fbJ #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #sustainableconstruction #industrialdecarbonization #climatetech

We are excited to welcome another climate tech powerhouse to our board, Bill Brady! He’s an expert in innovation-led transformation of traditional industries and the scaling of new industrial technologies in big and small companies alike. He’s helped build Mascoma LLC, Monolith, and Kula Bio into into the companies they are today, following a successful 23-year tenure at Cabot Corporation, a $3B specialty chemical company. We are grateful to have his expertise in scaling manufacturing and building commercial relationships between big and small enterprises, critical as we develop our electrochemical cement manufacturing technology to have swift and massive impact on global CO2 emissions! #KeepBuilding #leadership #climatetech

We recently welcomed NBC Boston Stations to our Somerville, MA-based pilot lab, to discuss our true-zero approach for manufacturing cement, how we test our material to ensure it performs the way the construction industry needs it to, how our forthcoming Holyoke, MA plant will help us scale our technology across the globe, and much more! Great to see our partners Yanni Tsipis WS Development featured at the site of our first commercial project, too! Catch the full story here: https://lnkd.in/ezBzKkWf #KeepBuilding #lowcarboncement #sustainablebuilding #climatetech

Thank you to Justin R. Wolf for covering the "natural partnership" between our Sublime and Vineyard Offshore. This is a great read on how renewable energy developers can look to clean materials for their projects, and how the growth of renewable energy provides a welcome blueprint for bringing low-carbon cement to the mainstream. We are also glad to see Engine Ventures mentioned for their work in connecting us!

Holyoke, MA, the site of our forthcoming first commercial manufacturing facility, is home to the largest Puerto Rican population per capita in the U.S. outside of Puerto Rico. The community hosts an annual Fiestas de Patronales de Holyoke to celebrate this heritage, and our team (Patrick Beaudry, Andrés López, EIT, Becky Gallagher, Kelly Lem, Raul Castillo Castro) had the pleasure of attending it last week and weekend for the second year in a row. We answered questions about our build out plans there, got to know our future neighbors a bit better, and happily gave away many coqui figurines made out of Sublime Cement?. Thank you to our community for being wonderful hosts as always — we are excited to #KeepBuilding with you all in Holyoke!