CALCITECH LTD and Carbide Industries LLC of Louisville, KY announce
their agreement to enter into negotiations concerning the use of Carbide
Industries¹ carbide lime for the manufacture of Synthetic
calcium carbonate
(
SCC) by CalciTech¹s proprietary
process technology.
Carbide lime is a co-product derived from
acetylene gas manufacturing, which
has been carried out at Carbide Graphite¹s Louisville operation since 1942.
Carbide lime has found application in such uses as flue
gas desulfurization
and soil stabilization. CalciTech has developed a unique process for the
upcycling of carbide lime and flue gas
carbon dioxide into white pigment
grade SCC. The company recently announced the European launch of -two new
SCC products with a third in the pipeline. The new products, Calci LS and
Calci SG, will find use in coated
paper and paperboard, while the third SCC
product will serve the
water based decorative paint market. Due to the
outstanding purity of SCC products manufactured by the CalciTech process,
they likely will also find uses in
food grade and pharmaceutical
applications.
Successful negotiations between Carbide Industries and CalciTech will result
in the construction of a
production plant for the manufacture of the entire
range of CalciTech SCC products from the large on-site reserves and
continuing production of high quality carbide lime at Carbide Industries¹
Louisville, KY plant.