Reinventing the Clay Building Brick – A report by SmartPlanet.com
- June 2nd, 2010
CalStar Products’ CEO, Tom Pounds discusses reducing the embodied energy in today’s building materials.
Press
SNAP Experts Call Fly Ash Brick and Paver Top 2010 Building Product: McGraw-Hill’s Sweets News and Products
- February 24th, 2010
The February/March 2010 issue of SNAP, the sister publication to www.sweets.com and a leading resource for architects, celebrates CalStar Fly Ash Brick™ and Fly Ash Paver™ in its Top Products List.
Putting Green Technology Into Bricks: Wall Street Journal
- November 4th, 2009
Amid buzz about algae biofuel and electric cars, some start-ups hope to use “green” technology to reinvent more mundane products like bricks…
Green Bricks a Natural in Silicon Valley: peHUB
- October 28th, 2009
Instead of being fired in a kiln, CalStar’s bricks are given a steam bath, as CEO Mike Kane calls it. To the casual observer, the finished products have the same look and feel as traditional clay bricks.
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CalStar gives sneak peek of low-carbon brick factory: Cleantech
- October 27th, 2009
The startup, which recently emerged from stealth, makes bricks using fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants. The company also developed a proprietary mix of standard industrial chemicals that reduces the energy intensity of the entire brick-making process.