ANONYMI ETAIREIA TSIMENTON TITAN

Their core work

Titan Cement is one of Greece's largest cement and building materials producers, with operations across southeastern Europe and beyond. In H2020 projects, they serve as an industrial testbed and end-user for CO2 capture, carbon dioxide recycling, and advanced construction materials. Their participation focuses on validating lab-scale technologies in real cement plant conditions — from converting CO2 emissions into calcium carbonate additives to testing lightweight multifunctional concrete and ceramic components. They bridge the gap between materials research and heavy-industry deployment.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Early projects (2014–2017) centered on industrial waste streams and CO2 chemistry — using ionic liquids and chemical processes to purify and convert cement plant emissions into usable products like calcium carbonate nanoparticles. By 2018–2023, the focus broadened to advanced materials engineering: metal-organic frameworks for CO2 adsorption, 3D printing of hybrid structures, and multifunctional ceramics for construction. The trajectory shows a shift from pure emission remediation toward integrating decarbonization with next-generation building materials.

Titan is moving from treating CO2 as a waste problem toward treating it as a feedstock, while simultaneously investing in advanced ceramic and concrete materials — positioning for a low-carbon construction future.

How they like to work

Titan participates exclusively as a consortium partner, never as coordinator — consistent with a large industrial company that provides real-world validation environments rather than driving research agendas. With 71 unique partners across 17 countries in just 4 projects, they operate in large, diverse consortia typical of Innovation Actions and Research & Innovation Actions. This makes them an accessible partner: they are experienced in multi-partner EU projects and bring industrial infrastructure without competing for project leadership.

Titan has collaborated with 71 distinct partners across 17 countries through just 4 projects, indicating participation in large pan-European consortia. Their network spans across the EU with no narrow geographic clustering, reflecting their role as a go-to industrial end-user for materials and decarbonization research.

What sets them apart

Titan brings something most research consortia struggle to find: a major cement producer willing to open its industrial processes for testing and validation. Few heavy-industry companies in southeastern Europe participate this actively in EU research. For any project needing a real cement plant environment to demonstrate CO2 capture, waste valorization, or advanced construction materials at scale, Titan is a proven and experienced industrial partner.

Highlights from their portfolio

• RECODE
  Largest single EC contribution (EUR 423,605) and directly targets cement industry decarbonization by converting captured CO2 into calcium carbonate nanoparticle additives.
• CARMOF
  Explores an unusually broad technology mix — metal-organic frameworks, carbon nanotubes, membrane technology, and 3D printing — all aimed at next-generation CO2 capture systems.
• LightCoce
  Shifts from emissions focus to construction products, building an upscaling ecosystem for lightweight multifunctional concrete and ceramics with digital and standardization components.