Cloud Cycle Ltd, an international leader in digital concrete quality monitoring, is pleased to announce a strategic minority investment from Holcim AG, one of the world’s largest vertically integrated manufactures of building materials and solutions.
This partnership marks a significant step forward in Cloud Cycle’s mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. The investment will not only accelerate the global deployment of sensors across Holcim fleets, but drive the adoption of Cloud Cycle’s innovative and revolutionary digital products which support concrete production teams across the globe to enhance concrete quality, drive operational efficiency, and promote sustainability with every delivery.
“Every truck that leaves our plants generates data that can optimize our concrete’s quality, our own operations, and our customers’ experience.” Said Ram Muthu, Head of Operational Excellence at Holcim. “With Cloud Cycle we can capture this data at scale and in real time, extending quality monitoring beyond the plant to the point of delivery. Complementing Holcim’s AI-powered tools such as Q-Predict, this creates multiple quality checkpoints across the value chain, helping us improve deliveries and advance our decarbonization roadmap.”
Russel Elfenbein, Founder and CEO of Cloud Cycle added “Managing concrete quality between batch and pour has always been close to impossible, so the industry compensated the only way it could: with more cement, and more embodied carbon. Real-time monitoring lets us deliver that assurance through data instead of through cement, and Holcim's investment lets us apply it at scale."
Cloud Cycle continues to expand its presence across European markets and expand internationally. This strategic partnership with Holcim will accelerate not only the expansion of Cloud Cycle’s international traction, but also the development of data-driven technologies that will drive the transformation of the construction industry.
Cloud Cycle is a UK-based company digitising the ready-mix concrete industry through real-time, in-transit monitoring and analysis of concrete data from the batching plant to the point of pour. Its hardware and software - the CloudBox on-truck sensor system and the CUBE platform and API - combine artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing and IoT connectivity to bring quality and transparency to every load, cut waste, and reduce concrete's carbon footprint. For more information, visit https://www.cloudcycle.com/
Holcim is the leading partner for sustainable construction, creating value across the built environment from infrastructure and industry to buildings. With net sales of CHF 15.7 billion in 2025, Holcim has more than 50 000 employees in 45 countries. The company offers high-value end-to-end Building Materials and Building Solutions, from foundation and flooring to walling and roofing – powered by premium brands including ECOPact, ECOPlanet, ECOCycle, and Ytong. For more information, visit https://www.holcim.com/.
