Sustainability
The biggest carbon lever on a concrete-heavy build — with no performance penalty.
Concrete is one of the largest embodied-carbon line items an owner can actually move — and one of the fastest. Trident lets a 50% slag mix reach full design strength, so you can run the deep-replacement mix your carbon target needs without the strength or schedule trade-off that normally caps SCM at 40%. Same timeline, no equipment changes.
46%+
Lower embodied carbon at 50% slag
vs a standard OPC mix (EPD-based)
50%
SCM at full strength
slag, fly ash, or calcined clay
7 days
Full design strength
the greener mix doesn't cost you schedule
$0
Capex or process change
dosed off your existing line
The opportunity
The carbon sitting on the table
Most projects stop at ~40% replacement — not because the chemistry fails, but because past that point strength normally arrives late and the producer carries the pour risk. So the deepest, lowest-carbon mixes get left unspecified. Trident removes the strength penalty at high replacement, which is what lets an owner name a 50% mix in the spec and give the producer cover to build it. The gap between where projects stop and where the carbon math wants to go is the reduction most builds leave on the table.
How it works
Why the carbon comes with the strength, not instead of it
Trident works at the microstructural level, taking cement conversion from ~75–85% to 95%+. More of the binder already in the mix actually reacts, so a high-SCM mix reaches — and exceeds — its design strength. You're not buying a separate “green” mix at a premium: the lower-carbon mix is the same mix that finishes stronger. Carbon and strength stop competing.
For owners & GCs
Built for owners with carbon targets
For owners answering Scope 3 goals, Buy Clean requirements, or EPD-based procurement specs, Trident turns a high-SCM mix from a risk the producer resists into an outcome you can specify. Name the result — 50% replacement at full strength by 7 days — and the producer has cover, the structure stays on schedule, and the embodied-carbon number lands where your commitment needs it.
Field proof
Proven on a real pour
A ready-mix producer supplying a hyperscaler data-center project ran a 50/50 slag mix on a 4,000 PSI spec against a poured control: the Trident mix finished 40% over its control at 28 days and reached full design strength at 7 — a deep-SCM, low-carbon mix that outperformed the standard one, on the same schedule.
For producers — RMC & precast
Carbon and cost, same direction
The assumption has always been that low-carbon concrete costs a premium. The EPDs say otherwise.
Using plant-specific and industry EPDs for a Southeast US supply chain (Type IL cement, slag cement), we compared binder-only embodied carbon and cost across mix strategies at constant total binder content. At 50% slag, Trident delivers 46%+ lower embodied carbon vs a standard OPC mix (EPD-based).
High-cement + silica fume (950 lb OPC + 80 lb SF)
840 lb/yd³
35% slag replacement
547 lb/yd³
40% slag replacement
516 lb/yd³
50% slag + Trident F-01
452 lb/yd³
Full EPD comparison table
| Mix strategy | Embodied CO₂ (lb/yd³) | vs. baseline mix | Binder cost vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|
| High-cement + silica fume (950 lb OPC + 80 lb SF) | 840 | baseline | baseline |
| 35% slag replacement | 547 | −35% | −$24/yd³ |
| 40% slag replacement | 516 | −39% | −$24/yd³ |
| 50% slag + Trident F-01 | 452 | −46%+ | −$25/yd³ |
Every point of carbon you cut is a bid you can win. As owners score submittals on GWP, the producer who can offer a 46%+ lower-carbon mix at lower materials cost isn't competing on price or on carbon — they're winning on both.
Want the full EPD-sourced analysis run on your own supply chain? Request a Custom CO₂ Analysis.
For precast
Precast's second carbon lever: curing energy
Precast carbon isn't just binder — it's the energy burned in heated decks and steam curing to hit stripping strength on schedule. Trident attacks both.
159% early-strength gain at 8 hours in commercial trials — same mix design, same cement content, no heated deck.
Triple mold turns per day achieved by producers, compressing both schedule and energy per element.
High SCM replacement remains available on top of the early-strength gain — binder carbon and curing carbon fall together.
See the full 8-hour-to-28-day cylinder data in the precast trial results.
159%
8-hour strength gain
Commercial trials · same mix design, same cement content, no heated deck
Proof, not promises
- ASTM C494 Type S interim certification complete; agency reviews in progress
- AASHTO R18 freeze-thaw · RDF 101%
- Independent testing: SGS TEC, Ideal Laboratory, KCT Laboratory
- 12+ months of commercial-scale validation with ready-mix and precast producers across North America and Europe
- Validated in mix designs up to 12,000 PSI
Specs are tightening. Get ahead of them.
Model the carbon and cost on your mix — or schedule a pilot and validate it in your plant.
Prefer to see the evidence first? See the Trial Results