Animal sanitation
Animal sanitation applications
In animal sanitation, maintaining hygienic environments is essential for animal health and welfare. Natural minerals such as limestone and hydrated lime play a key role in neutralizing pathogens, controlling odors, and improving overall hygiene in livestock housing and bedding areas.
At Lhoist, we offer mineral-based sanitation solutions that are both effective and environmentally friendly. Our products are widely used in agricultural settings and are also included in select formulations for domestic pet litter - supporting cleaner, safer spaces for animals and their caretakers.
Livestock sanitation
Calcinating limestone and/or dolomite refines calcium/magnesium to produce calcium/magnesium oxide, making it an extremely natural product, available as a fine powder, in granular form or mixed with water as milk of lime/lime slurry and protects livestock health in a number of ways.
Pet litter
Specific selected limestone particles are an ingredient in some formulations of pet litter as a pH adjustment component to neutralize odours. Lime, also known as quicklime, is one of the basic raw materials used in the production of synthetic pet litters, which are mainly composed of calcium hydro silicates.