HOLYOKE — Sublime Systems will pause work on its Holyoke plant and cut its workforce by 10%.

Sublime Systems, the Somerville and Holyoke startup planning to revolutionize cement making, and do it in the Paper City, made the announcement Thursday, seven months after the Trump administration yanked an $87 million U.S. Department of Energy grant.

The federal money promised by the Biden administration was to fund 50% of the Holyoke plant, the company said.

“We are actively working through a robust set of alternative scale-up plans and have several exciting options to bring our first commercial plant online,” the statement read. “We also remain in ongoing dialogues with the Department of Energy to demonstrate how scaling our efficient, next-generation cement technology will (return) manufa

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