Carbon RE, the AI Brand Optimizing Cement Plant Operations, Rebrands as Gigaton
Carbon RE, a UK-based technology company known for Delta Zero, its AI-powered system designed to optimize cement plant operations, has officially rebranded as GIGATON.
On its official website, Carbon RE announced the rebranding, confirming that Carbon RE is now officially known as Gigaton.
“Over the past several years, we have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) technology integrated on top of traditional control systems in industrial plants. We achieved a certain level of success, but to be honest, that approach was not enough to create a breakthrough at scale. The journey toward the Gigaton brand today is the story of those valuable lessons. It is the result of real-world achievements and the foundation for a new product line that we believe will redefine the entire future era of industrial control.”
Why Now? The Substitution Era and the Age of AI
Over the past decade, industrial plants have changed more dramatically than at any other point in history. For example, an average cement manufacturer that we work with is now feeding more recycled energy, derived from waste, into its production process than fossil fuels. They are forced to do so in order to maintain economic competitiveness while reducing carbon emissions. However, a process originally designed to burn coal reacts very differently when switching to sewage sludge or plastics.
It is not only fuels that are changing; raw materials are changing as well. The use of recycled, lower-cost materials has become a key driver helping Carbon RE’s customers optimize costs and reduce their carbon footprint.
To change these two core input factors, fuels and raw materials, plants have had to upgrade and install a wide range of new machinery, from new burners and bypass systems to advanced laboratories. As a result, plants today operate in a completely different way than they did in the past.
However, there is a major paradox: while production processes are constantly changing, the software used to control them has remained largely unchanged. This is the “elephant in the control room.” Traditional control systems, such as expert systems and APC systems, are no longer delivering the expected performance. They are often switched off or constrained to the point that operations engineers have to control the plant manually. Almost everyone in the control room is aware of this. Legacy systems are failing to meet the demanding requirements of modern plants.
Carbon RE describes this as the combined impact of two major global trends: The Substitution Era and The Age of AI.
The industrial manufacturing sector has invested in digitalization for decades. Plants have now become massive data centers, generating terabytes of data every year. For the first time in history, we now have the technology capable of effectively harnessing that data. However, simply layering AI on top of the fixed rules of legacy systems makes little sense. Our customers need more than that. They need a new infrastructure that can deliver immediate return on investment (ROI), and ultimately move toward a future where plants operate fully autonomously.
Gigaton – A Self-Learning Control System
As a team of AI scientists, process engineers and software specialists with more than five years of hands-on experience inside plant control rooms, Carbon RE is uniquely positioned to rethink industrial process optimization and control systems from the ground up.
Solving this challenge is one of the world’s most complex problems in machine learning and automatic control: nonlinear data, continuous chemical reactions, complex high-temperature combustion, long response delays, massive material flows and machinery that is often aging.
And Carbon RE has successfully developed Gigaton.
Gigaton is a core Self-Learning Control System for plant operations. The system applies AI across both the control layer and the optimization layer to directly control actuators, clearly explain its actions to operations engineers, and most importantly, continuously learn and adapt as plant conditions change.
The Meaning Behind the Name Gigaton
A “gigaton” equals one billion tonnes. It is a unit of measurement used by climate scientists when discussing changes at a scale large enough to affect the planet. It is also the core goal that the company has pursued since its founding, and the metric by which it measures whether it is truly making a difference.
The name Gigaton is a strong statement of Carbon RE’s commitment to the industry. The company understands the weight of the challenges businesses are facing and the massive scale at which they must operate.
Carbon RE, now Gigaton, brings together leading engineers, AI scientists and industrial experts to build autonomous control systems for the world’s most energy-intensive and high-emission industries, including cement, steel and glass, which together account for approximately 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Accordingly, Delta Zero, the AI-powered system designed to optimize cement plant operations, is now officially known as Gigaton. This platform helps cement, steel and glass plants optimize the use of raw materials in production, reduce carbon emissions and ensure compliance with annual allocated emission quotas.
For more information about the Gigaton system, formerly Delta Zero, please contact CIC Technology and Consultancy Joint Stock Company via hotline: 0866.059.659 for support.
