alcemy

alcemy is a Berlin-based software company serving cement producers and ready-mix concrete producers. Its products apply machine learning and control engineering to plant data — chemistry, mineralogy and grain size distribution in cement plants — to forecast quality parameters such as compressive strength and to compute target values (for example cement mill fineness and recipe adjustments) that are fed back automatically into the production process. According to one profile, the system can generate reliable recommendations on target grain size and cement/concrete recipes within roughly 20-40 minutes and transmit them to the responsible staff; the cement-side method has been implemented and patented, with the concrete-side approach filed for patenting [2][6].

For ready-mix concrete, alcemy extends monitoring from the mixing plant to the construction site. It uses existing batching-plant data supplemented by IoT sensors installed on truck mixers — a digital water meter, magnetic sensor, oil pressure sensor and telemetry unit — to provide real-time forecasts of fresh concrete consistency and visibility into the state of the concrete on arrival [6]. The stated purpose of this closer quality control is to make it feasible to lower the clinker factor, including through the use of limestone powder as a widely available, low-CO2 clinker substitute in place of scarce materials such as blast furnace slag and fly ash [7]. Claimed emissions effects vary by source: up to 50 per cent savings versus conventional production [5], 50-70 per cent for concretes produced with the software [7], and up to 65 per cent emissions reduction as clinker content is reduced step by step [3].

The company markets two solutions covering the cement and concrete value chain, with website messaging around anticipating strength, reducing clinker, managing variations and maximising throughput, plus a customer-facing "Foundation Partnership" program announced as new [0][1].