Industrial Minerals


CalciTech paper minerals patent

11 January 2010

by Jessica Roberts

New recycling patent to produce synthetic calcium carbonate from paper waste

Keywords: CalciTech, paper, recycling, synthetic calcium carbonate

Synthetic calcium carbonate producer CalciTech Ltd has filed a new patent in paper recycling that it claims can enable producers to recycle all of the minerals used in paper production.

 

The traditional recycling process recovers cellulose fibres which are...