Calix Limited
Calix Limited is a multi-award-winning Australian technology company that is developing new processes and materials to solve global challenges. Their core technology is a world-first, patented "kiln" built in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria that produces "mineral honeycomb".
Calix's technology has also been adopted overseas, where they work with some of the world's largest companies, governments and research institutions on CO2 capture.
Products
Calix's products are safe and environmentally friendly. They improve waste water treatment and phosphate removal, help protect sewer assets from corrosion, and help improve food production from aquaculture and agriculture without anti-biotics, fungicides and pesticides.
- For H2S control, odour management, phosphate and heavy metal treatment, and enhanced biotreater performance.
- For sewer assets protection and sulphide corrosion prevention.
- For increased yield, more efficient fertiliser usage, insect and pest management and fungal control.
- For water quality improvements, better feed performance and food conversion in fish and prawn ponds.
History
The origins of Calix began in 2005, bringing together innovative flash calcining ideas.
Financial information
Calix Limited is an unlisted Australian public company backed by prestigious local and international investors including Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC and Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Company Limited. Founded in 2005, Calix Limited has to date committed more than $40 million to commercialising its unique technologies and processes.
References
- Millenium Generation
- ASCENT
- Australian Company Joins Race to Make 'Green' Cement From CO2, By JEREMY LOVELL. Published: January 28, 2011
- 'CO2 for concrete curing'. Accelerating the Uptake of CCS: Industrial Use of Captured Carbon Dioxide,Authors: Global CCS Institute, Parsons Brinckerhoff. Published: 01 Mar 2011.
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- Calix is a company based in Sydney, Australia whose core business is the commercialisation of minerals processing technology, primarily focussed on the Catalytic Steam Calcination of limestone, dolomite and magnesite. Carbon Capture and Storage Association.
- Building a Better World With Green Cement, By Michael Rosenwald. Smithsonian magazine, December 2011
- Cementing a green future. By Doris de Guzman on January 19, 2010.
- The Future of coal, CCS & Clean coal technologies. By Brian Sweeney, ECUERS.
- Innovations in Sustainable Development. worldcement.com (jun 2011)
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