Construction
Limestone and Quicklime are essential products when it comes to construction, roadways, parking lots, embankments, levees and airport runways, new land development for housing and commercial usage.Drying up of soil and the improvement of soil workability are two important categories of lime treatment in construction operations.
When Quicklime is in contact with water, it can be used to dry wet soil efficiently. Whilst heat further dries the wet soil or clays, it enables users to compact the soil more rapidly than by waiting for the soil to dry naturally.
Soil that is treated with our High Active Quicklime can improve soil workability and provide sufficient strength to enable projects to complete smoothly and easily as well as, significantly, decrease the time needed for the stabilisation of the soil. Calcium stabilisation generates a long term pozzolanic strength-gaining reaction between Quicklime and the silica and alumina minerals solubilised at high pH from the clay, forming calcium silicates and calcium aluminates. When lime stabilised soil is used under pavement, this long term strength increase can allow for thickness reductions in overlying pavement layers (base course, asphalt), helping to further reduce construction costs.
Our Hydrated lime is often used as an additive in tarmac as it plays an important role in developing the cohesion of the tarmac and enhance the tarmac pavement less sensitive to moisture and reducing "stripping."; retarding the tarmac aging process and improves stiffness properties; helping to reduce tarmac pavement rutting and surges fatigue resistance to heavy wheel loads, a cause of pavement cracking and increasing pavement life and serviceability, significantly, when adding Hydrated Lime to asphalt.
Our Hydrated Lime can also be used to make lime mortar from the mixing of Hydrated Lime with sand and water. And lime mortar can be used instead of cement in construction and building work.