CIMENTO® Madre is an innovative material technology developed by CIMENTO® that rethinks the hydraulic binder. The calcium carbonate, an essential component of its formulation, does not come from conventional mineral sources, but from the recovery of eggshells generated by industrial processing.
An evolution that renews the material without changing its nature, creating architectural surfaces in which innovation, responsibility and expressive quality become part of the same design vision.
In CIMENTO® Madre, responsibility is a founding principle of the production process, becoming a tangible presence that can be recognised in the final result.
It all begins with the recovery of elements from the end of other production cycles. These are transformed into new resources and integrated directly into the body of the material. The bio-derived components become part of the composition itself, helping define its structure, texture, tone and depth. Responsibility enters the material and emerges on its surface. It becomes visible in the traces of its inclusions, its chromatic variations and the unique identity of each composition. The result does not conceal the process that created it: it reveals it, transforming it into design value.
CIMENTO® Madre offers architects and designers a new tool for imagining surfaces, objects and spaces. An open material platform for new compositions, variations and future applications, in which every production choice contributes directly to the aesthetic quality of the result.
The production process goes far beyond creating a new material: it contributes directly to defining its character, appearance and expressive potential.
Eggshells and by-products from the industrial processing of grapes, sunflower seeds, olive stones and corn are recovered and transformed into new material resources. Each element is selected for its distinctive properties and its ability to actively contribute to the final composition.
The biofillers are integrated directly into the mixture. Their presence generates different textures, grains, tones and depths, revealing the origin of each composition and giving it a distinctive material identity.
What once marked the end of another production cycle becomes a new resource for design. The process leaves a trace within the material, and that trace becomes a language: an expressive possibility through which architects and designers can imagine surfaces, objects and spaces.
For CIMENTO®, innovation begins within the material. Every surface becomes the visible result of a transformation—a memory held within. A material language in which what remains becomes substance, nature enters the body of design, and matter begins again.
The biofillers used in CIMENTO® Madre are supplied by AgroMateriae™, an innovative company based in Faenza specialising in recovering and processing by-products from the agro-industrial sector into new bio-based resources. Its research helps give new value to otherwise unused materials, transforming them into components suitable for new production and design processes.
