CEMEX, Sandia Labs, and Synhelion to Scale Solar Energy Technology to Produce Cement

MONTERREY, Mexico & ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. & LUGANO, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #SandiaLabs–CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (“CEMEX”) announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded US$3.2 million to Solar MEAD, a joint project headed by CEMEX, Sandia National Laboratories, and Synhelion, which aims to decarbonize cement production. Solar MEAD aims to replace the use of fossil fuels with concentrated solar thermal (“CST”) energy in clinker production, the key component in cement. CEMEX and Synhelion have be