Calix has executed a $44.9 million grant agreement with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to build a green iron demonstration plant using its Zero Emissions Steel Technology, according to an announcement on Thursday. The demonstration plant will have a targeted capacity to produce 30,000 tonnes per annum of hydrogen direct reduced iron or hot briquetted…
Australian environmental technology company Calix announced on Tuesday that its water treatment products sold in the United States will be exempt from recently imposed Trump administration tariffs. The ASX-listed company imports magnesium oxide from Canada as a feedstock for its US Magnesia business. These imports are protected under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which excludes…
Low emissions industrial technology developer Calix is raising $25 million from investors to speed the commercialisation of its technologies to decarbonise the production of cement and lime, iron and steel and lithium. The company has completed a $20 million institutional placement and announced a share purchase plan for existing investors to raise a further $5…
Industrial process technology company Calix has been recognised at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, winning the Net-Zero Industries Award for Outstanding Project with its zero-emissions steel technology. Calix’s Zero Emission Steel Technology (ZESTY) was celebrated for its “success and potential as a lowest-cost solution to green iron and steel production”,…
Industrial technology company Calix and Pilbara Minerals have deferred any construction works not under contract at their $105 million Mid-Stream Demonstration Plant at Pilbara’s Pilgangoora Project in Western Australia. The project, supported by $20 million through the federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative, is 60 percent complete but will be paused until lithium markets return to…
Low emission industrial technology developer Calix has been awarded a $15 million grant from the Australian Government’s Carbon Capture Technologies Program. The grant will support the construction of a world-first, renewably powered carbon capture and use (CCU) demonstration plant in South Australia. The plant will produce near-zero emissions lime and supply captured industrial CO2 emissions…
Industrial technology developer Calix has announced that its licensee, US company Heirloom, will utilise the company’s decarbonisation technologies in the construction of two direct air carbon capture facilities. Heirloom has announced they will build co-located direct air capture (DAC) facilities in Shreveport, Louisiana capable of removing 320,000 tons of CO2 per year. Heirloom has licensed…
Industrial technology company Calix’s subsidiary, Leilac Limited and German cement manufacturer Heidelberg Materials have formed a JV to build and operate the Leilac-2 low emission cement demonstration plant (pictured) at Heidelberg’ Ennigerloh facility in Germany. Construction of the Leilac-2 plant, which utilises Calix’s externally heated kiln is expected to commence in 2025 with commissioning expected…
Industrial technology company Calix has announced a new site for its Leilac-2 cement plant, which is commercialising new kiln technology enabling the capture of CO2 in process gases in the manufacture of cement and lime. The plant, supported by the EU, was forced to relocate from its original planned site at a HidelbergCement’s operational plant…
Low emission industrial technologies developer Calix has completed a front end engineering and design (FEED) study which found the company’s near zero emission ZESTY process was cost competitive with traditional high emissions iron making. Calix told investors that the study for a 30,000 tonne per annum Zero Emission Steel Technology (ZESTY) Hydrogen Direct Reduced Iron…