Steel plays one of the crucial roles in Automotive Industries, Constructions and country’s economy and security. In steel manufacture Quick Lime acts as a flux in purifying steel. Lime is also used in metallurgical plants and refractory’s thus making it integral to metal manufacturing.

Lime is a primary raw material for paper and pulp industry. Both Quick Lime and Hydrated Lime are essentially required for the manufacturing of pulp and paper in order to enhance the quality of paper by maximizing its opacity.

Lime contributes to a great deal in the chemical industries. Sigma’s premium products pride and pearl have found application in manufacturing of fine chemicals.

Lime is used in stabilizing the inplace- soils or aggregate used in road building. Hydrated Lime helps in forming an impermeable base thereby reducing the chances of seepage of rainwater.

Since time immemorial lime has been used for dehairing and plumping hides preparatory to leather tanning. A cleaning agent in the leather manufacture process, lime is used to remove raw skin and thus obtain clean leather.

Lime is the key agent in the elimination of pollutants from fuel-gas streams of coal-fired power plants, incinerators and industrial facilities. It is used for treatment of flue gases before it is released to atmosphere.

Hydrated Lime and Quick Lime are essential to the production of sugar from both sugar cane and sugar beet. It is used for removal of dirt, puma and pH correction.

Lime is one of the alkalis employed to neutralize the acidity in the cream before pasteurization. Addition of lime in the fermented skimmed milk forms calcium lactate, which is marketed as a medicine or further acidified to manufacture lactic acid.

All precipitated calcium carbonate, widely employed as a paint pigment, is derived from lime. It is also used in manufacturing of cement paints and is used as filler as well.

Lime is popularly used to increase the soil pH level and increase the crop yield. It is also used to improve the physical structure of the soil by reducing surface crusting. It is also used for soil liming, compost, disposal of animal products, fertilizers etc.

Used during Plastic extrusion as a lubricant in petroleum refining and also lubricating grease manufacturing process.

Limestone and lime are the fluxing materials for glass. There is no substitute for liming materials in glass when color is important.

As a building material lime is one of the oldest- probably only antedated by stone and mud. Lime has long been used in the construction industry to make mortar and plaster, serving as a binder in these substances. During the hardening process, the lime combines with carbon dioxide from the air to form rocklike calcium carbonate, while water is released by evaporation. Hydraulic lime is used to make a special kind of mortar that hardens under water. Besides this, Quick Lime Powder is also used immensely for manufacturing AAC Blocks ( Autoclaved Aerated Concrete).

Lime is extensively used to treat municipal waste waters and industrial liquid wastes. In wastewater treatment plants (both urban or industrial) Hydrated Lime and Quick Lime are widely used for correcting the pH balance of acidic water, for precipitating heavy metals and phosphates, and for its flocculating action. Lime is widely used for stabilizing industrial residual sludge or dredging sludge and for treating urban biosolids before agricultural re-use or incineration. In addition, lime is used to treat soils polluted with hydrocarbons.

Lime is widely used in the manufacturing of most calcium- based pharmaceuticals.