Celitement receives material efficiency prize of the BMWi

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), with its environmentally friendly and energy-saving cement Celitement one of the winners of the German Materials Efficiency Prize of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). Compared with conventional methods for cement production promises to be this huge energy savings kit development and a much more favorable energy balance. With the price recorded at the State Secretary Jochen Homann 17.11. four medium-sized companies and a research facility for their innovative ideas and processes from. The KIT was awarded for his applied research to improve material efficiency.


At the awards ceremony from left: State Secretary Jochen Homann, Prof. Helmut Seifert, Dr. Peter Stemmer and Dr. Peter Fritz, KIT (enlarge picture)


State Secretary Jochen Homann gave the award at the conference "with resource efficiency on the road to victory - Practice and research show the way". On the part of KIT were contrary to the Vice President for Research and Innovation, Dr. Peter Fritz, and Dr. Peter Stemmermann from the four-member team of inventors Celitement the 10,000 Euro award. "The Material Efficiency Award shows us that we are in the development of Celitement on the right track and how pioneering this innovation is now energy-intensive process in cement production," said Dr. Peter Fritz.