ThyssenKrupp Magazin

TK Magazine | 1 | 2004 |
LiDonit is an example
of DSU’s ability to develop
innovative products.
Demand for this slag is
growing because the
Germans’ favorite hobby,
driving, benefits from it.
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gardening, to be sure, but purely functional beds that are not without
their own strange beauty: the mix of colors can be delightful when the
new slag flows into the black bed and on to already emptied, markedly
cooled slag. The hoppit rolls up and is emptied again and again for
several days in a row, and the resulting mass needs a week to cool
down for crystalline solidification. The quality is shown by the fact that
the surface of LiDonit does not stand out like rough sheets of ice, but
solidifies with total evenness – after a week the bulldozers arrive to
empty the bed.
Skips then take care of the transportation to the breaker, from
where the stabilized slag is taken to the road builder. Mixed with bitumen,
fiber and mineral substances, the resultant material assures
cars of a better grip on the road while protecting the pavement from
heavy loads.
WHY LIDONIT PROTECTS OUR ENVIRONMENT
“Slag management” is the name of the offer provided by Joost and
DSU as a service provider. Even if the production of LiDonit costs
money, Joost detects immense, partly unrecognized potential in this
mineral substance. And “LiDonit protects our environment. The use of
this material safeguards natural resources.”
Is this already known to all those politicians who have committed
themselves to the careful use of natural resources? If LiDonit were not
used, more natural stone would have to be broken out of quarries and
transported to road building projects.
Joost predicts that the times when new slag heaps are being approved
will soon be over, and that the time for LiDonit will really come.
Slag, he says, is far more than just refuse. “Fine chippings” is what
Michael Joost calls DSU’s LiDonit. 7