There are many places in Italy with large limestone stratifications from which man has always benefited.
The strategy followed for more than fifty years has enabled SACED to work on excellent deposits of pure limestone, suitable to be transformed into lime.
Deposits are collected in the open air in compliance with the strictest environmental regulations.
The abundance of reserves and the particular purity of the mineral allow SACED to optimistically face the future with plans of expansion, by offering the market a wide and diversified range of finished products.
SACED selects the limestone and transforms it into the most noble and classic derived product: lime.

Lime is a natural material with over 4,000 years of history. Based on archaeological knowledge the first furnaces were created in Mesopotamia near the city of Ur located between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
The effectiveness of employing of lime can be seen in the majestic works over the centuries such as the Great Wall of China, the roads, bridges and aqueducts of Roman times.
Just as in the past, though with very modern production methods and accurate controls, quicklime is obtained today through the decarbonation of limestone by heating it to about 900° C.
The addition of water leads to the formation of hydrated lime.
SACED, using the best methods of the Italian lime sector, has developed the huge opportunities offered to industrial world by this natural product.
SACED guarantees its clients a supply of excellent lime with characteristics which fully satisfy the specific needs of the multitude of the product's application fields.

Lime is known as the material with thousands of applications; it is a raw material to make products, e.g. mortar for construction or chemical compounds. It is also employed as an intermediate with specific functions in the processing of other products, such as steel, paper, sugar, soda, etc. Lime is also important in the ecological sector where it is used as a neutralizing and precipitating additive in the purification of polluting aeriform waste liquids.

Contruction
Lime has been employed in this sector since ancient times; even more so today with calcium hydrate, slaked lime and wet mortar being precious products in buildings.
Lime is a fundamental component to create wall plasters and mortars that guarantee durability, transpiration and perfect finish.

Iron works
Millions of tons of cast iron and steel are produced in Italy every year. Calcium carbonate and various types of lime, both hydrated and quicklime, are fundamental for production.
Calcium carbonate and hydrated lime are employed to produce agglomerated iron ore, used in blast furnaces for the production of cast iron.
Quicklime is employed in various compounds and granulometric forms suitable for the founding and refinement of steel.
Lime-based desulphurizing mixtures are used in refinement treatments outside the furnace to produce high quality steel.

Construction of road infrastructure
Each year the building of roads, railways, airports and canals requires several million cubic meters of inerts, the shortage and high price of which are well known.
Lime offers the possibility to employ different types of soil often believed to be unsuitable.
Silty-clay soil, sand and gravel with a high clay content, pozzolanic sand combined with extremely fine elements, which thanks to the mixture with a small percentage of lime, become excellent material for foundations, embankments and road overstructures.

Agriculture
The excessive acidity which may occur in soil due to various and complex phenomena, significantly affects the development of the main sensitive agricultural cultivation.
Only a few plants prefer acidic soil (lupin, peanut, cork oak and chestnut) while most prefer neutral or slightly alkaline soils.
Lime is the corrective of choice for acidity in soil.
The term “liming” means, in general, administering lime to soil.
This long-standing agronomic practice is fundamental in order to neutralize the acidic reaction of soil by ensuring excellent physical-chemical conditions for correct farming nutrition.

Ecology and the environment
Public awareness of environmental problems is constantly growing.
Lime, a natural product, employed by using the best technology available today, is certainly the most environmentally compatible material in terms of costs and benefits.
Lime is used as a natural reagent for treating waste water, hygienizing biological sludge, purifying fumes from incinerators and thermal power plants.

Quality is a term which summaries various organizational aspects which must be carefully planned, wisely integrated and entirely implemented.
SACED believes that reaching absolute quality is only possible through a philosophy which involves the entire company with special attention also to people, who must feel part of the common aim. To guarantee absolute quality in all products a specific global plan was drawn up:
- People training and motivation;
- State-of-the-art systems;
- Analysis and careful control of raw materials;
- Analysis and continuous control of finished products;
- Organized and systematic procedures of production methods;
- Prompt and punctual deliveries through selected and reliable transporters.
The demonstration of our traditional commitment to supply quality products is witnessed by our clients, some of which are amongst the main players in the Italian and European chemical Industry, petrol refinery and iron industry, who show their satisfaction by renewing long-term supply contracts with SACED.

SACED, with the aim of continuous expansion and adjustment to market needs, has developed a highly diversified product range:
- Burnt lime, granulated, ground quicklime;
- Hydrated lime;
- Hyperventilated fine grained hydrated lime;
- High strength hyperventilated fine grained hydrated lime for special applications;
- Slaked lime for walls and plasters;
- Old lime;
- Stabilized mortars;
- Calcium carbonate in various granulometric sizes.



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