Betalor win IPHA's Terry Treanor Award

Finland-based material technology company Betalor has won the International Prestressed Hollowcore Association’s 2024 Terry Treanor Award, for development of the “world's lowest emission hollow-core slabs", Geoprime.

It was in Ian’s honour and memory that the IPHA award was devised, with the first one awarded at the IPHA's annual conference in Prague, in 2005.

Terry's son Ian, president of IPHA's marketing committee, presented the award to Mikko Marjalaakso, senior sales manager, Betalor.

Betolar's low-carbon Geoprime concrete material solution allows high-volume industrial side streams to be converted to replace cement as a binder. Geoprime hollow-core slabs have similar properties to traditional cement-based slabs, but their carbon footprint is up to 75% lower.

The award was given during the IPHA Annual Conference 2024, which was held in Newcastle, Northern Ireland (23 – 26 May).

Earlier this year, Betolar's Geoprime solution won first prize at the Intermat Innovation Awards at the Intermat exhibition in Paris. 

Betolar was awarded the prize in the Building, Civil Engineering, and Concrete sector category. 

The award process seeks innovations in equipment, technologies, services, or products that contribute to developing the construction and materials industries.