Bio-Cement Market Report : CAGR of 5.5% from 2025-2031

According to YH Research's Bio-Cement Market report, this report provides the Bio-Cement market scenario, definitions, classifications, applications and industry chain structure, also discusses the development policies and plans as well as the manufacturing processes and cost structures, analyzes the Bio-Cement market's development status and future market trends. It also analyzes the Bio-Cement market from both production and consumption perspectives, to analyze the top producing regions, the top consuming regions, and the top manufacturers in the Bio-Cement market.

According to the latest report on the global bio-cement market published by YH Research, the market size has reached 6.25 billion yuan (RMB) in 2024 and is expected to climb to 9.14 billion yuan by 2031, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5% during the period of 2025-2031. This growth rate is significantly higher than that of the traditional building materials industry, fully reflecting the centrality of green building and low-carbon technologies in the transformation of the global construction industry.

The latest industry data as of April 2025 shows that the adoption of biocement technology in carbon-neutral buildings is accelerating. The market penetration of sustainable building materials continues to increase, especially under the policy drivers of the European Union's “Green New Deal” and China's “Double Carbon Target”. According to the estimation of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the adoption of bio-cement technology can reduce the carbon emission of traditional cement production process by 30-50%, which makes it one of the key technology paths for emission reduction in the construction industry.

Technical Principle and Product Characteristics
Bio-cement is an innovative cementitious material produced through microbial mineralization. Its core technology is to use the metabolic activities of specific microorganisms (e.g. Bacillus pasteurus) to induce calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP), which results in inter-particle cementation and solidification. Compared with traditional silicate cement, bio-cement has three revolutionary advantages:

Environmental friendliness: the production process does not require high-temperature calcination, which significantly reduces energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, and is fully in line with the concept of circular economy
Self-healing properties: microorganisms remain active for a long time inside the material, which can automatically repair micro-cracks and significantly improve the durability and service life of building structures.
Adaptability of raw materials: industrial waste (such as steel slag, fly ash) or natural minerals can be used as the substrate to realize the resource utilization of waste.
From the technical route, the current mainstream bio-cement products can be divided into two major types:

Industrial waste-based: metallurgical slag, coal ash and other industrial by-products as raw materials, the cost advantage is obvious, suitable for the application of bulk building materials
Natural mineral-based: using natural calcium materials, more stable performance, suitable for high precision and special environmental engineering
Application Scenarios and Market Drivers
Construction Engineering Field
Driven by green building assessment systems (e.g. LEED, BREEAM), bio-cement is gradually becoming the material of choice for low-carbon building certification projects. Its typical applications include:

Foundation reinforcement: to improve the bearing capacity of weak foundations through microbial grouting techniques
Wall restoration: for non-destructive restoration works in the conservation of historic buildings
3D printed buildings: as an ideal bonding material for digital construction, enabling precise molding of complex structures
Biomason's bio-cement was used for the first time on a large scale in Singapore's Eco-Cube project, which will be completed in 2024. Measurements show that the carbon footprint of the project is 43% lower than that of conventional solutions, and the project has become a benchmark case for sustainable construction in the Asia-Pacific region.

Environmental Remediation
Biocement shows unique value in soil curing and pollution remediation:

Mine remediation: for tailings dam stabilization and acid mine wastewater treatment
Coastal protection: building an eco-friendly shoreline reinforcement system by inducing sediment cementation through microorganisms
Heavy metal immobilization: Effective solidification of lead, cadmium and other harmful substances in contaminated soils.
Basilisk's “biocuring” technology has been successfully applied to soil remediation projects in many European countries, and its on-site measurement data show that the compressive strength of the treated soil has been increased by 5-8 times, and the leaching concentration of heavy metals has been reduced by more than 90%.

Regional market pattern analysis
North American market: technological innovation highland
With its strong biotechnology R&D capability, the United States has become the innovation center of the global bio-cement industry, and the algae-based bio-cement technology jointly developed by Prometheus Materials and the University of Colorado has won the “Global Cleantech 100” award in 2024. Canada is actively exploring the low-temperature application of biocement in Arctic projects to address the building safety challenges posed by melting permafrost.

European market: policy-driven development
The European Union has included biocement into the priority development catalog of “Eco-design for Sustainable Products Regulation” (ESPR), and Germany and France have set up a complete green building materials certification system. The UK “Zero Carbon Buildings” mandate requires that all new public buildings must use more than 50% of low-carbon cementitious materials before 2030, and this policy will directly boost the demand for bio-cement.

Asia-Pacific market: huge growth potential
China's “14th Five-Year Plan” for new building materials clearly put forward to support the industrialization of microbial building materials development, the market size in 2024, a year-on-year growth of 28%. The “Green Cities” program launched by the Indian government will pilot bio-cement technology in 20 cities, mainly used for slum upgrading and earthquake-resistant construction projects.

Industry Chain and Competitive Landscape
The global bio-cement industry has formed a complete value chain from strain cultivation, process equipment to engineering services. Industry leaders are strengthening their competitive advantages through vertical integration strategies:

Biomason: Focusing on the architectural prefabricated parts market, it has established strategic cooperation with a number of international construction groups.
Prometheus Materials: development of microalgae-based light-driven bio-cement technology, invested by the Bill & Melinda Gates Breakthrough Energy Fund.
Basilisk: established expertise in the field of underground engineering and water conservancy facilities, with more than 50 international patents.
It is noteworthy that traditional building materials giants such as LafargeHolcim and HeidelbergCement have already entered the field through mergers and acquisitions or independent research and development, and it is expected that the industry will usher in an accelerated period of integration in the next few years. Among Chinese enterprises, Sinoma International and Huaxin Cement are increasing the industrialization of bio-cement, but there is still a gap between the core strains and process control technology and the international leading level.

Technology Development Trends and Investment Hot Spots
Frontier technology direction
Genetically engineered strains: modify microorganisms by means of synthetic biology to improve calcium carbonate yield and material properties.
AI process control: using machine learning algorithms to optimize the conditions of biomineralization and achieve precise control of the production process.
Composite functional materials: develop intelligent bio-cement with multi-functions such as self-sensing, self-repair and air purification.
Potential Investment Opportunities
Realization mechanism of carbon emission reduction value of bio-cement in the context of carbon trading
Emerging application scenarios such as marine architecture and extreme environmental engineering
Performance breakthrough of bio-cement-nanomaterial composite system
Innovative development of modular bioreactor and other core production equipment
Challenges of Industry Development
Despite the promising prospects, the industrialization of bio-cement still faces multiple obstacles:

Cost competitiveness: the current price is still 30-50% higher than that of traditional cement, which requires large-scale production to reduce costs.
Lack of standard system: lack of unified performance testing and engineering acceptance standards
Special construction process: need to train professional bio-construction technology team
Insufficient public awareness: the market is skeptical about the safety and reliability of microbial building materials.
It is especially worth noting that the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to be implemented by the EU in 2025 may change the global trade pattern of building materials, which not only creates a policy dividend for bio-cement, but also puts forward higher requirements on the carbon footprint tracing ability of enterprises.

Strategic Recommendations and Future Prospects
Based on the current market development situation, industry participants can consider the following strategic directions:

Collaboration between government, industry, academia and research: Strengthen cooperation with scientific research institutions and government departments to promote the formulation of industry standards and the construction of demonstration projects
Application Scenario Innovation: Explore the application possibilities in extreme environments such as space architecture and undersea tunnels.
Business model change: shift from selling materials to providing carbon reduction solutions, and explore the potential of realizing environmental value.
Regional market differentiation: promoting high-performance products in developed countries and focusing on economical solutions in emerging markets.
Looking forward to 2030, with the intersection of synthetic biology and material science breakthroughs, bio-cement is expected to develop from a niche product to a mainstream building material, playing a key role in the global green infrastructure wave. It is expected that by 2031, biocement will account for more than 15 percent of the global cementitious materials market, becoming one of the core technologies that will drive the carbon-neutral transformation of the construction industry.