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.
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At Calix we believe it’s not so much about what we do, it’s why we do it. We’re driven to use our unique skills to repair, preserve and prevent future harm to our planet.
Because there is 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.
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Our history timeline
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Foundation of Calix
2005Calix is founded.
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Pilot
2007First pilot calciner facility is built to test what was possible.
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First Plant
2011First continuous calciner plant CFC 850 at Bacchus Marsh.
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Acquisition
2012Acquisition of Myrtle Springs mining tenements.
Awarded UK Government’s DECC grant to develop the Endex technology. -
World's First
2013World’s first 30kTpa commercial CFC demonstrator.
First plant in South East Asia established. -
Awards
2014First Magnesium Hydroxide Liquid (MHL) manufacturing facilities established in both VIC and QLD.
Awarded a Commercialisation Australia grant helps accelerating the roll-out of our proprietary MHL slurrying technology via transportable batching plants.
Establishment of a JV and MHL facility in the Philippines.
Calix wins the Water Category Awards at the 2014 Australian Technologies Competition. -
More Wins
2015ABA100 Winner for Best Technology Product in The Australian Business Awards 2015.
Calix wins Agritech Award and is nominated Australia’s best emerging tech company of the year at the annual Australian Technologies Competition. -
Major Funding
2016Awarded an Accelerating Commercialisation Australia grant to support BOOSTER-Mag commercialisation for agriculture.
LEILAC consortium secures €12 Million EU Horizon 2020 Funding to demonstrate our CFC technology to reduce carbon emissions from cement and lime industries. -
Advanced Battery Project Wins
2017Calix part of EU H2020 SOCRATCES Project – winning 5m Euros for solar thermo chemical storage pilot project.
Calix wins $0.8m in Advanced Manufacturing Growth Fund for advanced battery materials project. -
IPO
2018On 20 July 2018, Calix successfully completed its initial public offering (IPO) and its shares commenced trading on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Calix lists on the ASX, raising A$8m to accelerate growth.
Calix LEILAC Project begins construction at HeidelbergCement factory in Lixhe, Belgium. -
Significant Turning Point
2019Calix enters 10-year distribution agreement with Afepasa to supply bioactive magnesium hydroxide for agriculture.
Calix acquires Inland Environmental Resources, a Magnesium Hydroxide Liquid (MHL) company based in the US.
Awarded EUR16m by the European Commission for LEILAC 2, a commercial scale up of Calix CO2 capture technology.
Calix joins Future Battery Industries FBI-CRC, the largest and most ambitious battery development program in Australia. -
New Milestone for LEILAC
2020Final project agreements executed for LEILAC-2 CO2 capture facility
At Calix, our vision is to become a leading global innovator of industrial solutions for the environment. Driven by our purpose of solving global challenges, we focus on four overlapping pillars of sustainability.
Read our Sustainability Series.
Meet Tom Dufty, Mechanical Project Engineer
“We are in a position with global warming, where we can’t go back in time or undo what have already done… but we can try to evolve technologies to move forward and make a better future for us all.”
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Meet Anna Tran, Safety Health Environment and Quality (SHEQ) Manager
“You can’t continue improving things if we are not learning together and improving together. […] Safety isn’t just safety, everybody contributes to safety and to quality as a team.”
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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.
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.
OUR VALUES
Staying true to our core values helps us create a company we're proud to work for. Our core values form a criterion for how we act and the choices that we make from the markets we pursue to the people we hire.
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 to why we exist “We Solve Global Challenges” and with our core value of “positive impact”.
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