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Slite CCS

Heidelberg Materials · Slite · SE · Cement and concrete · decarbonisation

Paused

Slite CCS is Heidelberg Materials' cement project at Slite, Sweden.

Why it matters

Work has stopped, and the reason is in its history below.

  • Slite CCS was paused on 19 November 2025. as of 2025-11-19
  • It is at Slite, Sweden. as of 2026-01-01
  • It uses post-combustion carbon capture and CO2 transport and storage. as of 2026-01-01
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2026-01-01

Where Slite CCS is

Slite CCS is at Slite cement works. Nothing else drawn falls inside this frame.

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filled: operating, commissioning or under constructionhollow: announced, funded, or pausedringed: this project

57.7121° N 18.8015° ESlite cement works

as of 2026-01-01

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating
  6. Paused2025-11-19
  • 2025-11-19PausedPaused after the Swedish Energy Agency rejected the co-financing application under the Industrial Step programme.source
  • 2026-01-01PausedHeidelberg Materials withdrew the project's permit application. The status is unchanged: the source reports a withdrawal and no source states the project is cancelled.source

Technology and measures

  • Post-combustion carbon captureearly-commercialCO2 is separated from the kiln's flue gas after combustion, using an amine or solvent process bolted onto an existing plant, which is what makes it the retrofit route for kilns that are not being rebuilt.
  • CO2 transport and storageearly-commercialThe pipelines, ships, terminals and permitted geological stores that a captured tonne has to reach before it counts as abated, and which no single site that captures can build for itself.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources