Limestone – a key ingredient of civilisation

On 1 January 2019 the Centre for Sustainable Cement and Quicklime Production was established at the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics at Umeå University. SMA Mineral is one of the financiers.

Did you know that lime has been a part of human civilisation for thousands of years? How long exactly nobody knows, but floor structures dating back just over 9,000 years that used lime binders have been found in the Mediterranean countries. Mankind therefore needs lime in various forms and it enhances our quality of life – yesterday, today and tomorrow.

SMA Mineral produces agricultural lime at four units in Falköping, Stigtomta, Rättvik and Filipstad. Annual sales are 30,000–40,000 tonnes, from Hälsingland in the north to Kalmar in the south.