The Buffalo Plant mines approximately two millions tons of limestone per year. Adding a new rotary kiln more than doubled lime production. But it also raised the problem of what to do with a greatly increased outputof fines. Linwood realized landfilling waste fines at rates of up to 100 tons/day wouldn’t be a good long-term solution. “the minute we started planning the kiln expansion, we knew we’d get into trouble with the amount of fine output.” Linwood previously considered briquetting the fines for sale, but it wasn’t a viable option because of the relatively small amount left over.

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