5 April 2023 - In this episode, Ian Riley speaks to Dirk Lechtenberg, Managing Director & Founder of WCA Member MVW Lechtenberg and Partner about the trend towards biogenic fuels and emerging technologies in AFR.
7 March 2023 - In this special International Women's Day episode of the Clinker Factor podcast, Ian Riley speaks to Madhumita Basu, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer of Nuvoco Vistas Corp Ltd, about her experiences, Nuvoco's sustainability strategy, the importance of gender diversity and the opening of its first all-women plant.
2 February 2023 - In this episode, Ian Riley speaks to David Boyd, CCO of Carbon Re and WCA Member, about their recent whitepaper “Three technologies to reduce climate change” as well as their development of the world's first AI-powered platform for decarbonising energy-intensive industries like cement.
5 January 2023 - In our first podcast of 2023, Gurinder Nagra (Founder of Furno Materials) and Greg Houchins (Founder of Chement), join Ian Riley to discuss their ideas, the challenges of commercialising new cement technologies, and the advantages of working with the Breakthrough Energy Fellows.
14 December 2022 - In this episode, Ian Riley talks to Liz Gilligan, Founder of Material Evolution, about building a business based on currently unused sources of cementitious materials, the challenges of launching new products and Material Evolution’s journey as a tech start-up.
12 August 2022 - In this special Clinker Factor bonus episode, Ian Riley, WCA CEO and Amr Nader, CEO of A³&Co.® talk to Manon Burbidge, WCA, on the specificities of what's needed to decarbonise the cement industry in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, the first steps of a roadmap towards net zero that require minimum investment, and also WCA's annual conference, to be held 25-28th September in Dubai, UAE.