In April 2024, Fortera opened its Redding ReCarb Plant, an industrial green cement and carbon mineralization facility.

Located in Redding, California, the plant captures CO2 emitted during cement production and permanently sequesters it by mineralizing the CO2 into ready-to-use cement.

The facility is built to capture 6,600 tons of CO2 and produce 15,000 tons of low-carbon ReAct® cement per year.

Fortera’s ReCarb process is a bolt-on technology that works within existing cement production infrastructure. In Redding, Fortera’s ReCarb facility is adjacent to CalPortland’s cement plant. Fortera captures CO2 emitted during calcination—the process occurring when limestone is heated in a kiln—and draws the gas from CalPortland’s flue gas stack into the ReCarb plant, where it undergoes mineralization to transform the gas into ReAct green cement, a form of calcium carbonate.