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Competitive Positioning

Calcined Products Competitive Advantage

Calix’s Catalytic Flash Calcining (CFC) technology is able to control the calcination process to a much more precise level than is available using traditional calcination technology. This precision allows for the creation of products that would otherwise be very difficult to create and consistently deliver.

Traditional calciners are selective in material composition of carbonate feedstock – they are unable to process feedstocks with a high percentage of calcium and magnesium in the feedstock.

Tests in the CFC850 indicate that Calix’s CFC technology can be programed to selectively calcine the carbonate feedstock with a high percentage content. This provides the opportunity to add significant value to currently low value feedstock, and the resultant products offer similar or superior properties to existing products on the market.

Calix is therefore able to offer superior products at a consistent quality, to selected sectors of the marketplace. Variations in the composition of mineral feedstock can be quickly and easily compensated for in the CFC control systems.

Endex Reactor Competitive Advantage

There are a large number of laboratory research and commercial research projects being undertaken around the world to develop CO₂capture technology. There is currently no clear leading solution that meets the energy efficiencies, percentage of CO₂ capture and environmental management issues required. There is also limited research funding available to meet the overall technology goals.

A large percentage of research is working on capturing post-combustion CO₂ – that is, the CO₂ present in flue gases following combustion of carbon fuels in Industrial processes, for example the flue gas from a coal fired power station. The issues relating to the implementation of CO₂ capture systems from such a large volume of exhaust flue gases has been a challenge to researchers and engineers, and the capital and operating costs relating to such implementations present a further obstacle.

Although Calix has some reasonably competitive solutions for the post-combustion marketplace, Calix considers that its best opportunities exist in focussing on the pre-combustion market – an area which will allow the company to work towards technology leadership, as this significantly reduces the overall footprint of the reactor and the cost of installing the reactor.