Limestone on Your Breakfast Table
Limestone is a versatile and often irreplaceable raw material in many applications. It plays an important role in the manufacture of products that maintain our well-being. Every day we all use products that could not have been made without limestone-based products.
Refreshments
Juice and coffee are made of good-quality drinking water, in the production of which limestone-based products are used.
Cutlery
The cutlery on your breakfast table is made of steel, and lime is needed in many stages of the steel manufacturing process.
Magazines
In the production of magazine paper and milk cartons, limestone is used in a refined form as filler and for coating purposes. Almost half of high-quality coated magazine paper can consist of minerals!
Sugar
In sugar production process lime is used to absorb impurities.
Milk
The cows that produce the milk for your breakfast need calcium e.g. for bone development and their nervous system. The calcium comes from feed lime that is made of the purest limestone.
Glass
Almost one third of glass consists of limestone.
Breadgrain and vegetables
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.
Eggs
The egg would have no shell if there was no lime in the hen's feed.
