Circulit concrete will soon be available nationally
The newly founded zirkulit AG starts selling the first climate-friendly concrete in Switzerland. Eberhard companies and Kästli Bau have created a license system for this. The bosses of both companies are also owners of zirkulit AG.
The ecological concrete called Zirkulit will be available throughout Switzerland in the coming months. The two companies Eberhard companies from Kloten and Kästli Bau from Rubigen have entered into a partnership for its production and distribution. Together they created a licensing system for the innovative building material and founded zirkulit AG based in Kloten. The two owners are the first two licensees.
According to a media release by zirkulit AG, Zirkulit is characterized by "maximum circularity", a smaller CO2 footprint and the same static properties as primary concrete. The consumption of primary resources will be reduced to less than a third. In addition, the CO2 footprint will be reduced by a CO2 storage technology developed by zirkulit. As the first client, Swiss Prime Site Immobilien AG decided last autumn to use the JED area in Schlieren ZH circulit.
"The building material has great potential for the construction industry," the managing director of zirkulit AG, Patrick Eberhard, is quoted as saying. He will "make an important contribution to the achievement of the ambitious environmental goals that we have set for ourselves as a society".
Daniel Kästli, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kästli Bau AG, is also convinced that the national expansion of this building material is "an important milestone on the way to circular and thus sustainable building throughout Switzerland". The experience and knowledge of both companies would "contribute to the fact that Zirkulit Beton will establish itself throughout Switzerland as a future-oriented building material."