Use of Products

Limestone Is Part of Our Everyday Lives

Limestone purifies, neutralizes, fills and stabilizes. That's why it is an important - often irreplaceable - ingredient in the manufacture of innumerable products. - Did you know that limestone-based products have been used in one point or another in the making of most of the products on your breakfast table:

• Juice and coffee are made of good quality drinking water, in the production of which limestone-based products are used.

• Breadgrain and vegetables enjoy a well limed field because limestone reduces the acidity of the soil and releases the nutrients of the field for the plants to use.

• The egg will have no shell if there is no lime in the hen’s feed.

• The cows that produce the milk for your breakfast need calcium e.g. for the bone development and the nerve system. The calcium comes from feed lime that is made of the purest limestone.

• In sugar production process lime is used to absorb impurities.

• The cutlery on your breakfast table is made of steel, and in the steel manufacture process lime is needed in many stages.

• In the production of magazine paper and milk cartons, limestone is used in a refined form as filler and for coating purposes. Almost a half of high-quality coated magazine paper may consist of minerals!

• Almost a third of glass consists of limestone.

 Please see the menu to the left and read more about the use of limestone-based products in different applications.