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Progressive Planet Announces Patent Application Filing for PozGlass(TM) 100G
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n Progressive Planet Announces Patent Application Filing for PozGlass™ 100G\n \n \n /* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canada NewsWire\n \n \n \n \n \n \n KAMLOOPS, BC\n \n \n ,\n \n \n July 20, 2022\n \n \n /CNW/ -\n \n \n \n \n Progressive Planet Solutions Inc\n \n .\n \n (TSXV: PLAN)\n \n (\"PLAN\", \"Progressive Planet\"\n \n \n or the\n \n \n \"Company\n \n \"), a dominant manufacturer of agricultural, household, and industrial products introducing blue-sky tech that turns post-consumer glass into high-performance cement using CO2 sequestration, announces filing of a 156 country PCT patent application (PCT/CA2022/05111) (the\n \n \"Application\"\n \n ) for a method of improving the properties of ground glass pozzolan. The Application claims priority to, and benefit of,\n \n United States\n \n provisional patent application No. 63/222912 filed\n \n July 16\n \n , 2021.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world. The production of\n \n Portland\n \n cement (the binder in concrete) generates approximately 8% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.\n \n \n Ground glass pozzolan (finely ground post-consumer glass) has historically been used to replace up to 30% of cement in concrete to improve the performance characteristics and reduce its carbon footprint; however, it contains sodium. Sodium is an undesired material in concrete. When sodium is reduced, the ground glass pozzolan is stronger and better able to reduce alkali-silica reactivity (ASR). PLAN's patent application describes a process where PozGlass™ 100G permanently sequesters CO2 while reducing sodium. The end-product is a ground glass pozzolan with a low carbon footprint, better strength, and better resistance to ASR.\n \n \n \"Having moved production in-house with the commissioning of the PozGlass 100G Demonstration Plant in June, results came down to the wire with our best results to date coming just 4 days prior to our application deadline of\n \n July 16\n \n ,\" said\n \n Ian Grant\n \n , COO of PLAN. \"B...