Tayyaba Ali
Tikal IndustriesTayyaba Ali, CTO, co-founded Tikal Industries in Chicago, Illinois, where the company transforms industrial waste streams into lower-carbon construction materials, including cement replacements and supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). These materials are engineered to meet ASTM performance standards while reducing emissions from both manufacturing and transportation. Production takes place in modular microfactories, what the team calls “the world’s smallest cement factories”, located close to waste sources and the markets they serve.