Carmeuse, headquartered in Belgium, is the second largest limestone company in the world. It has 140 years of experience in the extraction and processing of limestone and dolomitic stone into lime and lime-related products. The main uses of lime are in the production of iron and steel for which there is no substitute; it has applications in soil stabilization for the construction of roads and the building industry in general. More and more applications are being developed in the environmental domain to clean hazardous air pollutants and liquid industrial discharge. Carmeuse is n°2 in Western Europe, n°1 in Central and Eastern Europe and n°1 in North America.
