Suvo Strategic Minerals Limited (ASX: SUV) has received a letter of support from the Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP), a Victorian government agency. This support includes offering field trial opportunities for low carbon construction materials on LXRP projects.
Deakin University has been engaged to formulate various lower embodied carbon concrete mixes, utilizing kaolin from Suvo’s 100% owned Pittong operation. The test work to be performed by Deakin University aims to substitute up to 70% of Portland cement using the Company’s kaolin. The resulting lower embodied carbon concrete mixtures will form part of the field trials offered by LXRP.
LXRP intends to assist Suvo in navigating the technical and commercial approval processes involved in introducing new low carbon products to the market.
Executive chairman Aaron Banks commented “We are excited to commence our 3rd vertical for the business. Having successfully set up with PERMAcast and further advancing testing in Indonesia with PT Huadi on our one-part geopolymer binder, we now look to create our ‘transition piece’ – our calcined kaolin cement.
As we develop our low carbon geopolymer binders, it is important to run in parallel this transition piece as calcined kaolin is well understood in the market as a Class 1 ‘Supplementary Cementitious Material’, and it potentially represents a quicker pathway to revenue.
Traditionally, you can swap out 50% of Portland cement with calcined kaolin, which is a great start, but first prize for us would be the ability to create a formulation removing up to 70% of Portland cement.
Being the only hydrous kaolin producer in the Country, we arguably have the first mover advantage to commence production as soon as the formulations are complete. Our aim is to utilize low-cost secondary kaolin where the majority of the cost has been booked to our primary high-end kaolin that we currently sell to
existing clients.”
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