A purpose-led company
Calix is a team of dedicated people developing a patented technology to provide industrial solutions that address global sustainability challenges. The core technology is being used to develop environmentally friendly solutions for advanced batteries, crop protection, aquaculture, wastewater, and carbon reduction.
Calix has identified some key global challenges that have emerged in the last decade and are increasingly putting our planet at risk. By aligning innovation and development initiatives with the SDGs, Calix is driven to make an impactful and meaningful contribution to solving global challenges.
Because there’s only one Earth. Mars is for quitters.
Leading edge technology
At the core of Calix’s diverse and versatile innovations is a pioneering technology that re-imagines the calcination process, enabling new applications and materials that solve global challenges.
Nano-active materials produced by the Calix technology are being used in wastewater treatment, lake remediation, aquaculture, crop protection, and advanced batteries. Calix technology also allows for the direct separation of CO2, allowing it to be used for carbon dioxide reduction in traditionally carbon dioxide intensive industries, such as lime and cement production.
Reducing CO2 emissions
Calix’s technology is being used to help reduce CO2 emissions in cement, lime, and hydrogen production.
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Simon Thomsen, Calix Limited, on the economical benefits of the technology
Simon Thomsen, Calix Project Engineer explains how Calix applied its technology to the cement and lime industries, by increasing the temperature, and improving the efficiency, performance and operativity of the process.
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Mark Sceats, on the evolution of the Calix technology
Mark Sceats, Calix Chief Scientist, discusses the evolution of the Calix Technology behind Project LEILAC and the value of a collaborative approach with industry “the involvement of industry is absolutely critical” he says.
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Collaborating for positive impact
Calix works with a global network of research and development collaborators, including governments, research institutes and universities, some of world’s largest companies, and a growing customer base and distributor network for its commercialised products and processes.
Improving the sustainability of water treatment
Calix’s ACTI-Mag is helping make water and wastewater treatment more sustainable, and convertible into renewable energy.
What we have done - customer stories
Improving the Sustainability of Water Treatment \ Municipalities
Solving extreme H2S odor, El Centro 
ACTI-Mag reduces the odor to manageable levels at El Centro, Southern California, United-States.
Improving the Sustainability of Water Treatment \ Municipalities
Magnesium Hydroxide liquid dosing for odour control, Cassowary Coast Regional Council 
Replace lime and alum with Calix’s ACTI-Mag magnesium hydroxide liquid at Cassowary Coast Region, QLD, Australia.
Improving the Sustainability of Water Treatment \
Chrome Precipitation at a tannery, Casino Hide Tanners
ACTI-Mag is a highly reactive, concentrated and stabilised suspension of Magnesium Hydroxide manufactured by hydrating ultra high surface area Magnesium
Improving the Sustainability of Water Treatment \ Wineries
Improving the cellar door experience, Campbell’s Wines
ACTI-Mag reduces H2S and consequently, odours within the cellar door at Campbell’s Wines, Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia.
Feeding the Growing Human Population \ Aquaculture
Yield Improvement in Shrimp & Prawn, IKerpan Farm 
AQUA-Cal improves the quality of water and thereby promoting better and healthy aquatic life at IKerpan Farm, Kerpan, Malaysia.
Creating Renewable Energy \ Agriculture
Anaerobic cogeneration plant at a piggery farm, Berrybank Piggery
ACTI-Mag on an anaerobic cogeneration plant at a piggery farm South West Victoria, Australia.
Improving the Sustainability of Water Treatment \ Municipalities
Freshwater lake remediation, Petaling Jaya Town Council
AQUA-Cal+ a safe and effective method for treating lakes and water bodies at Petaling Jaya Town Council, Selangor, Malaysia.
Making crop protection safer
Calix’s BOOSTER-Mag is being developed as a safe, sustainable and environmentally friendly crop protection solution.
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In Europe, fungicides and pesticides need to be re-registered every 10 years to ensure they comply with stringent safety standards. Many of the products in use currently are unlikely to achieve re-registration, thus creating demand for safer alternatives.
The cost to develop a new crop protection product averages US$250 million and 10 years but farmers need safe, affordable crop protection products now.
Find out how Calix’s BOOSTER-Mag can increase yields and boosts resistance to pests and diseases while making crop protection safer.
Making better batteries
Calix is developing advanced materials for lithium ion batteries.
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With its new BATMn reactor in Victoria (Australia), Calix is developing high performance, affordable, and more recyclable lithium ion hybrid batteries based on nano-active electrode materials.
Find out how the application of the Calix Flash Calciner technology to batteries could be a gamechanger in terms of providing cheaper and more sustainable energy storage across electric transportation, portable electronics, and large kilowatt power systems.
At Calix, we continuously ask the following question to ourselves: with global climate, energy, and sustainability issues set to intensify, how can we use our technology, people and expertise to help solve the challenges that are increasingly putting our planet at risk.
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LATEST NEWS
June 27, 2020 \ Calix Global Challenges
News Issue June 2020
Welcome to Issue Number 35 of the Calix Newsletter. In our second Newsletter for 2020, we feature the commencement of
June 27, 2020 \ Feeding the Growing Human Population
Understanding the global challenges we solve
The world’s population is expected to grow by over a third, or 2.3 billion people, between 2009 and 2050. This
June 27, 2020 \ Improving the Sustainability of Water Treatment
The value of magnesium hydroxide as a substitute for caustic soda and lime
Magnesium hydroxide is the least expensive and most powerful alkaline chemical treatment available on the market for pH control applications.
Technical webinars
Calix has created a series of webinars so you can take advantage of Calix’s know-how without leaving your home or office.
Chemical Dosing Unit Solutions
In this webinar, Calix Business Development Manager Sam Sood and Calix Operations and Sales Engineer Shayne Rettke will discuss how Calix has leveraged a culture of innovation to provide fully customised services such as design expertise, engineering know-how, detailed engineering, installation & commissioning services to provide turnkey systems for chemical dosing.
Boosting Energy from a Cogeneration Anaerobic Digester
Anaerobic digestion is a way of adding value to operations. It consists of converting organic matter present in the wastewater sludge into biogas for energy, while reducing the organic load in the treated water. But biogas production can be tricky. In this webinar, Michael explains how you can use ACTI-Mag to improve wastewater treatment performance and boost biogas generation.
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Maritime transport emits ≈ 1Bt of CO2/year ≈ 2.5% of global CO2 emissions.
Calix is developing the #recast process - using a dry scrubber with zero-emissions lime, targeting the absorption of 85% of the CO2.
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Calix supports WaterAid programs to facilitate access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in the world’s poorest and most marginalised communities.
This partnership with WaterAid aligns perfectly with our purpose and the reason why we exist, “We Solve Global Challenges” and with our core value of “positive impact”.