Limestone Is a Part of Our Everyday Lives

Did you know that limestone-based products have, at one point or another, been used in the making of most of the products on your breakfast table?

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

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

An 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 bone development and the nervous system. Calcium is obtained from feed lime made of the purest limestone.

In the sugar production process, lime is used to absorb impurities.

The cutlery on your breakfast table is made of steel, and in the steel manufacturing process lime is needed on 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 be minerals!

Almost a third of glass is limestone.