Lhoist Research and Development

Research and Development With their know-how and high-tech facilities, our Research Centers worldwide are closely involved in the development of new processes using lime in industry. Our R&D departments also constantly strive to improve our current products and to develop new ones, through close co-operation with our customers. Here are a few examples of our new products: Spongiacal®, Captacal® and Wülfrasorp®: highly reactive calcium hydroxides for dry flue-gas treatment. Proviacal® : low-dust milled quicklime, for soil treatment in civil engineering. Flucal® and Wülfraflux® : fluidised powdered quicklimes, designed specifically for injection with magnesium in hot metal desulphurisation. <a href="http://www.proviacal.com">Proviacal : low-dust lime for soil treatment in road construction</a> <a href="http://www.spongiacal.com>Spongiacal : high porosity lime for gas purification</a>