Our Low-Carbon Projects

Pan-United is an industry leader advocating decarbonisation. We understand how critical it is that the foundations we are setting should build up to a greater national and global impact. We know we must accomplish our green and low-carbon goals. That is because being sustainable revolves around a circular economy. Here are a few examples of projects that utilise our low-carbon concrete

Corporate Social Responsibility

2022, #SGNIGHTFEST Concrete Letters

Pan-United designed and 3D-printed a seven-metre long installation for the National Heritage Board’s Singapore Night Festival, for use over a three-year period starting in 2022. A total of 12 giant concrete letters, weighing at least 60 kilogrammes each, were made with low-carbon recycled raw materials.

We also sponsored a multi-layered concrete platform to mount a Singapore Armed Forces AMX-13 SM1 tank as part of an exhibition called “Dislocations: Memory & Meaning of the Fall of Singapore, 1942” at the National Museum of Singapore.

Product Innovation

Product innovation really showcases what we can do to reduce concrete’s negative impacts on the environment. We recycle materials already created as by-products, such as:

• Recycled Concrete Aggregates (RCA);
• Ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBFS) that is waste from steel production; and
• Silica fume from silicon wafers.

We are proud to offer more than 300 specialised concrete types, even prouder to say more than half are low-carbon and green-certified. In recent years, we have used carbon mineralisation technology to permanently trap carbon dioxide in concrete, an advancement that can be applied to all our concrete products to reduce embodied carbon emissions.

Our CO2 Mineralised Concrete, called PanU CMC+, uses less cement and becomes stronger as a whole! As the first ready-mix concrete producer in Asia, and one of the biggest producers globally to use this breakthrough CCUS* technology, we hope to start a movement whereby the entire region adopts carbon mineralisation and other more environmentally friendly practices.

*CCUS – Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage

Process Innovation

Our expert-level domain knowledge comes in handy when it comes to digitalisation, making process innovation so much more effective. AI tools optimise our supply chain and make sure each truck is on the road for a reason. COVID-19 may have caused major disruptions but it has not disrupted our creativity.

The new normal post-COVID-19 needs new tech to go with it. There is no more human hassle with our in-transit concrete mix management and electronic Delivery Orders (eDOs). Human interaction is minimised and therefore safety is maximised. Not to mention, we save on all that manpower, time, and resources; with eDOs we have saved 13 tonnes of paper a year!

With lesser energy emissions through the optimisation of our concrete delivery logistics, our low-carbon concrete products are delivered sustainably and efficiently.

Waste Management

Waste is upcycled with the use of RCA, which otherwise ends up in landfills. This prevents carbon emissions otherwise emitted during waste incineration. Each batching plant also has water recycling systems. The water is used to wash trucks and equipment, and reduce air pollution by suppressing floating dust.

Now you know why our trucks are so clean!