Lydia Tropper

Innovative and dynamic like a startup but integrated within the well-established and traditional Rohrdorfer group the Net Zero Emission Labs GmbH (NZE Labs) has one target: zero emission in the cement industry. Our mission is to be a frontrunner in defossilising cement production and thus accelerate the path to Europe’s climate neutrality. We are a team of 30 experts from various thematic fields like process engineering, environmental technology, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry, business and economics. Comparable to a cleanteach start-up we can act more agile, dynamic and disruptively when developing innovative solutions and concepts for decarbonization concepts and projects. Being part of an established construction materials company allows us to directly evaluate our concepts in an industrial setting and prove their practicability and profitability. Currently, we’re working on several pioneer projects like implementing Austria’s first Carbon Capture and Storage Plant on an industrial scale, collaborating within the H2-Real-World Laboratory Burghausen / Chemdelta Bavaria, starting the production of calcined clays, utilizing CO2 to synthesize commodity chemicals, optimizing technologies for the recovery and use of C02 (Zero Emissions throUgh Sector Coupling) and many more.