Carmeuse

Carmeuse Group

Type	Private
Founded	1860
Headquarters	Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Key people	Dominique Collinet (Chairman of the board), Rodolphe Collinet (Chief Executive Officer)
Industry	Chemicals
Products	High calcium lime, High dolomitic lime, calcium hydroxide and limestone
Revenue	€950 million(2007)
Employees	5,000
Website	http://www.carmeuse.com/

Carmeuse is a Belgian mining company which produces lime and limestone. The Carmeuse Group has production facilities in Europe, North America and Africa. Its head office is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and the company Chief Executive Officer is Rodolphe Collinet

[edit] History

The company was founded in 1860 in the city of Liège. Over the years the company expanded across Western Europe into Italy, France and the Netherlands, Central Europe and Eastern Europe into Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Turkey and North America into the United States and Canada and also in Africa into Ghana.

Lime products are used in multiple aspects of our everyday life. Carmeuse has developped many applications for industrial uses (steel, non-ferrous, chemicals, paintings, paper, carpets), for the agro-food industry (human food and animal feed), for the building industry (plasters and mortars, aerated autoclave concrete, calcium silicate bricks, ...) and for environment applications (water and sludge treatment, flue gas desulfurization), ...