Commercial viability of nanomaterials in concrete: supply, scale-up and adoption

Mike Harrison, Chief Executive Officer, Concretene

Scalability and cost are two of the biggest barriers to entry to the concrete market for novel materials such as graphene. Mike Harrison, CEO of decarbonising admixture company Concretene, explains the issues around supply chain, scale-up and real-world implementation that frame a key question for industry around embodied carbon: with increasingly stringent environmental legislation coming down the track, can you afford not to innovate?