In 1962 the old Danish company Luxol from the Danish city Næstved on Zealand
started the production of calcined flint. The production was based on a patent which
the father of the owner at that time got back in 1936. The patent included mixing of
calcined flint into asphalt in order to achieve light road surfaces and the product
was called Luxovit^®.

In the beginning it was a typically Danish phenomenon to mix a light aggregate into the
asphalt and it was widely praised - also abroad - because everyone could see that it was
both more comfortable and safe to drive on light roads, especially under dark and wet
conditions. The road market was up to the mid-80´s by far the most important market
for the calcined flint with a 50% saving on electricity used for road lightning, and the
fact that the distance from which the driver can see an object on the road was doubled
as the main sales arguments. However, traffic safety costs money and with the
mentioned recession leading to decreasing sales new markets/products had to be found.

We found an opportunity to enter the British market and after a quite slow start we got in
contact with the right people which lead to dramatically increasing sales to the building
industry, the ceramic industry and the decoration field.. After a while we started to supply
the British ceramic industry. At the end of the eighties we started drying the Luxovit^®
and selling it in small bags, big bags and silo lorries.

There is a big market for narrowly sieved white aggregates for the "technical" industry
such as road marking, water filtration, industrial flooring and high impact boards and a lot
of others. At the same time we developed good sales to the building industry in Denmark
and we saw an increasing demand for coloured aggregates. After many tests with a lot of
different methods in the years 1988-1989 we found a ceramic glaze which could give the
white Luxovit^® aggregates all the colours you could ask for.

The new product was called Collux^® and is today sold to at least 10 countries, a couple
of them being situated on the other side of the globe. Through our British connections we
learnt about the British "pebble-dashing" method and we have now introduced this
renovation method in Denmark where we have worked with it for about 10 years and have
renovated several 100 houses.  So after some quite turbulent years we now have a
relatively wide product range and a well spread customer basis, exporting about
85% of our production.