Kenoteq

We are a clean tech company specialising in building products. KENOTEQ’s first product is an unfired brick with 90% recycled content from demolition and construction waste.

OUR MISSION

Kenoteq is innovative and ambitious, aiming to become a global leader in the world of ultra-low carbon sustainable building materials, whilst providing local circular waste solutions which support local supply chains and drive down carbon emissions. 

Our unique, patented methodology

We're revolutionising traditional brick-making methods. Recycled materials, no waste, no firing, fast local production.

Our products are grounded in science: with over a decade of research, development and testing our fully circular, patented, low energy production process allows us to create our low carbon products to a patented proprietary formation. 

Our fully circular process allows us to create our products fit for use within 24 hours of the processed waste arriving at our factory. 

Our Story

Born from a serendipitous meeting, Kenoteq emerged from a visionary idea during conversations on geo-environmental challenges in construction waste management between cross-disciplinary experts at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, UK and Scottish waste management specialist, Hamilton Waste & Recycling Ltd. 

Fuelled by a scarcity of building supplies, legislative waste reduction demands, the need for truly sustainable building materials to help decarbonise the built environment and a surge in new housing construction mandated by the government, Kenoteq was spun-out of Heriot Watt University in 2019 as a registered company ready to progress final prototyping, product certification and raise investment capital to set up a commercial scale production facility and scalable business and production model. Kenoteq is grateful for the funding it received from Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (now BE-ST), Scottish Enterprise and Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund, and is actively pursuing Series A funding.

With global economies setting net zero targets and beginning to mandate carbon reduction and waste recycling targets, the K‑BRIQ® stands as the most innovative and low carbon brick in the market, featuring a core commitment to sustainability through circular economy processes. Boasting the lowest embodied carbon of any commercially available bricks, as well as the highest recycled waste content, the K‑BRIQ® holds UK and US granted patents, with European and Canadian patents pending. UK, US and European product certification is pending.

The company and product are recipients of prestigious awards including the BE-ST Circular Economy Award 2023, Dezeen Award 2022 in Sustainable Design, VIBES Scottish Environmental Business Awards 2022 – Circular Scotland, Sacyr iChallenge Awards 2022, and The Times Higher Award: STEM Research Project of the Year 2020. 

Kenoteq is on a mission.

Our vision is to deliver certified bricks for exemplar projects, blazing a trail in the circular economy revolution and bringing a scalable manufacturing and sustainable product solution, together with waste management partners, into an international marketplace.