Background and Customer Requirements

For more than 50 years, Tolsa Group has been extracting, researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing multiple products for domestic and industrial use. Today, the company is focused on providing innovative solutions that help improve the competitiveness of its customers worldwide through products designed to integrate into their value chain.

History

More than half a century has passed since the inauguration of its first mineral processing plant, dedicated to bleaching earths for the clarification of wines and oils.

From that moment onwards, and in support of product development, Tolsa Group acquired significant natural reserves in Europe, Africa and South America, including the largest sepiolite deposit in the world, major attapulgite deposits and high-quality bentonite reserves.

Today, Tolsa Group has gone far beyond simple mineral extraction. In addition to a solid natural resource base exceeding 100 million tonnes of reserves, the company incorporates all types of raw materials in order to provide solutions adapted to the current and future needs of its customers.

Products

Nature

• Attapulgite (Palygorskite).
• Sepiolite.
• Smectite.
• Bentonite.
• Amorphous Precipitated Silica.

Applications

• Environment and filtration (filtration and waste treatment), construction, civil engineering and slurries, industrial absorbents, pharmaceuticals and agriculture.
• Environment and filtration (filtration and waste treatment), construction, civil engineering and slurries, paints and coatings, asphalt and bitumen, industrial absorbents, agriculture and animal feed (E-562).
• Environment and filtration (filtration, water and effluent treatment) and animal feed (E-558).
• Environment and filtration (water and effluent treatment), civil engineering and slurries, paints and coatings and foundry applications.
• Animal feed.

Solutions, Equipment and Installations

The installation consists of the following supplied equipment:

• 1 motorized belt sampler for an 800 mm wide conveyor belt.

The service provided by SOTECMA included project engineering, manufacturing and shipment of the equipment.