Reformix

There’s a global push to rethink products and processes that solve old, costly and polluting engineering problems.

Alternative cement and concrete technologies are now one of the biggest global talking points – and were front and centre at the Institute of Australia's Concrete 2025 conference at Adelaide Convention Centre, titled “Concrete Solutions for a Sustainable Future.”

As alternative cement technologies accelerate globally, the challenge is no longer just formulation - it is repeatability, process control and scalability.

Our work focuses on defining product AND process stability, optimising feedstock preparation and establishing reproducible pathways for commercial deployment of low-carbon binders (and other technologies).

Ramon Skåne, a director from Reformix Materials Group, was one of the selected presenters for Concrete 2025 and shared ideas around how Industrial adoption of new and emerging materials depends on more than just *product innovation*... but also *process standardisation*.

Read more about our presentation and approach here:
🔗 https://www.reformix.com.au/post/reformix-selected-to-present-at-concrete-2025-on-the-industrial-standardisation-of-geopolymer-binder

Reformix selected to Present at Concrete 2025 on the Industrial Standardisation of Geopolymer Binder Activator Preparation* Reformix presented work at Concrete 2025 – Concrete Solutions for a Sustainable Future, held in Adelaide from 7–10 September 2025. Our paper, “Optimising Geopolymer Activator Preparation: Thermophysical Insights from a Fly Ash Case Study Towards Process Standardisation” addressed a largely o...

Reformix Materials Group presented at the Geopolymer Institute in France as part of Geopolymer Camp 2025.

Our focus: transitioning geopolymer systems from laboratory research into field-ready, commercially deployable solutions - with robust QA/QC, feedstock optimisation and industrial process control.

The conference highlighted a clear global shift: geopolymer technologies are moving from academic research into industrial acceleration.
- The 1990-2000s built academic traction.
- The 2010s expanded research, with only a handful of commercial first movers.
- The 2020s are industrial acceleration.

There was serious international attention and capital interest – from government-backed initiatives to large-scale infrastructure ambitions. Discussions spanned calcined clays in Europe, green deployment in Asia, and cross-border collaboration between universities and industry.

We’re proud that the work being undertaken in Western Australia is aligned with this international momentum.

Read more about the conference and our presentation below:
🔗 https://www.reformix.com.au/post/reformix-presents-at-the-geopolymer-institute-s-2025-conference-in-france

What started in peak-COVID 2020 as a final-year engineering project at uni became something much bigger than Reformix's original co-founders could've ever expected. Almost 6 years later, the project is STILL going... but we're not over it at all.. in fact it keeps getting better.

The original research question was simple:

"Could industrial by-products like fly ash and mine tailings be engineered into usable construction materials - without relying on conventional high-cost and high-polluting cement?"

That one question led to:

• Countless site visits to Collie, WA.
• Long days (and nights) in the lab and workshop
• Techno & Feasibility modelling
• Lots of Industry collaboration
• An industry PhD and work at Curtin Uni
• And eventually… Reformix Materials Group.

The biggest lesson over those years wasn’t just technical, it was this:

Industrial by-products aren’t “waste”, but they ARE wasted.

They’re materials made to the wrong specification.
Engineer them correctly, validate them properly & safely, and they become commercial resources instead of landfill.

No slogans.
No gimmicks.
Just engineering.

Today, Reformix works across cement, mining, agriculture and processing industries, helping organisations turn their industry by-products and residues into commercially viable products.

And the original question still drives us:

Several years later, we’re still working on the same core problem for many:
“How do we convert complex industrial by-products and residues into commercially viable resources?”.

The work continues.

Reformix has established itself as a leading materials science, R&D and engineering product developer and consultancy, providing our partners with novel ways to repurpose their by-product materials into commercially usable resources. What started in the cement and concrete industries has quickly expanded to the mining, agricultural and chemical processing sectors.

We continue to grow our team, capability and ambition to solve the world's waste issues with every tonne reformed/repurposed.

🌏 To see more on what we do, our journey so far or if you'd like to support us, head over to our website at:
https://www.reformix.com.au/

Photo credit, the amazing Katherine Tapp Miller!