Romain Girbal, co-founder of IB2, believes the ecological transition is a significant growth opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs. IB2 has developed a revolutionary process to transform low-grade bauxite into high-quality ore, reducing production costs by 40% and the need for imports.
This process minimizes environmental impact by lowering CO2 emissions and decreasing the production of red mud waste by 67%.
Additionally, IB2’s method produces tobermorite, a component in green cement with half the CO2 emissions of traditional cement. IB2’s technology supports a circular economy and demonstrates that ecological sustainability and profitability can go hand in hand.
International Collaboration and Future Prospects
IB2 has a 22-year partnership with China’s Liulin Senze and is attracting interest from countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. These countries are looking to reduce production costs and environmental impact. IB2 aims to expand globally, demonstrating that integrating sustainability into business models can drive innovation and profitability.
Global Inspiration and Future Vision
Inspired by international examples, such as Germany’s “Energiewende” and the U.S.’s revitalization of the Rust Belt, IB2 showcases that industrial policies focused on ecology can regenerate regions and create sustainable jobs. Romain Girbal emphasizes that ecological and economic goals can reinforce each other, making them “fiercely compatible.”
Meeting the rise of aluminum and also offering green cement
– sustainable management of mineral resources –
Aluminium demand is rising while high quality ores becomes rare
IB2 (Improved Bauxite Improved Bayer) company offers innovative solutions
IB2 technology upgrades low-quality bauxite to a higher available alumina content, allowing refineries to extract more bauxite locally. IB2 technology also makes refinement more efficient and reduces red mud production.
Additionally, the IB2 process produces Tobermorite, a valuable by-product often known as green cement, which can generate extra revenue.
400 Years of Expertise: Revolutionizing Bauxite for a Greener, Sustainable Future.
“Experts at IB2 bring a combined experience of 400 years. Some of us have actively contributed to the development of industry and others have co-invented several patents. But the main goal of us all has been the same: to make industries more efficient, sustainable, and greener. That’s what we aim to do with the bauxite industry through IB2.” R.Girbal
March 27, 2024 – Article published by: Holy Minoza in “Chicago Journal”
Designer and supplier of green technology for ALUMINA REFINING
Romain Girbal presents the innovative IB2 process during a video interview on Fox 17 Morning Mix
March 11th 2024
“By transforming low-quality bauxite into high-quality bauxite, IB2 enables its customers to efficiently use local resources, thereby minimizing environmental impact and improving sustainability. » FOX17
IB2 makes it possible to combine lower production costs, positive impact in waste management and industrial sovereignty
Extract from the article dated March 6th, 2024, CAPITAL
“The IB2 process transforms low quality bauxite into a high-grade ore. It combines ecological transition and a significant reduction in production costs. Unique in the world, it modernizes and makes more efficient the ancestral Bayer process. ”
Let’s glance back at at the stages of a success story in the bauxite and alumina industry
“After ten years of research, IB2 engineers, led by world-leading chemist Yves Ocello , saw their work rewarded. Last July, the French company, co-founded by Romain Girbal, signed a record 22-year contract with Senze Coal Aluminum Company, an aluminum giant in China. This new refining process developed by IB2 will revolutionize this sector by radically transforming the use and profitability of low-grade bauxite with the result of considerable ecological gains. IB2, which is definitely on the rise, has even seen the Firmenich family office, one of the largest in Switzerland, enter its capital. Meeting with Romain Girbal who tells us about his success story which didn’t happen in a day.”
Extract from the article edited in La TRIBUNE – 2023 /10/23
IB2 pioneering French company with its ecological process for the transformation of bauxite into alumina
“By proposing its method which makes it possible to reconcile ecology and heavy chemical industry with the production of alumina, IB2 quickly seduced the leaders of the Chinese company. After several weeks of negotiations IB2 and Liulin Senze Coal Aluminum signed a partnership on July 30, 2023 for a period of 22 years. […]
This technical innovation will revolutionize the aluminum sector. By radically transforming the use and profitability of low-grade bauxite, this solution also becomes a virtuous alternative to the importation of high-quality bauxite that consumes very little CO2 emissions with trucks that load the ore transported by boat across the oceans. of the planet.[…]
With local bauxites and quality alumina production, IB2 has implemented an attractive economic model and a minimized ecological footprint. Bauxite becomes doubly profitable: Romain Girbal: “ IB2 does twice the job. While alumina extraction is environmentally optimized, the second positive effect is that IB2’s technology creates a co-product: tobermorite. This calcium silicate is the main constituent of cement after its hydration. Tobermorite is a green cement […]”
Exctract from the article edited in “LE POINT” -2023/09/12
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