CTP

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Centre International de la terre et de la pierre

The Centre Terre et Pierre is a Belgian centre of technological development and excellence at an university level. It is supported by the European Community and the Walloon Region of Belgium.

The total number of employees of the CTP is around 40. This team is constituted of 25 multidisciplinary engineers and scientists coming from both industry and university. They are supported by a technical and administrative staff.

The CTP works in the field of optimal treatment, recovery and concentration of solids :

• ores (base and precious metals, industrial minerals, ...),
• secondary materials (glass, plastics, scraps, sludge, ...),
• others (chemical industries, environmental impact, ...).
  

In Europe as well all over the world, CTP's activities encompass applied research, services and consulting for private companies, public corporations, research centres and administrative bodies.

The major part of its activities is:

• characterisation (chemical, mineralogical and particle size analysis, ...),
• development of new technologies and new processes,
• dressing of materials according to given customer's specifications,
• checking of processes at pilot scale (in CTP or at customer's facilities),
• optimisation of mineral processing plants (modelling and computer simulation),
  participation in start-up of new plants,
• consulting (advises, specifications, marketing studies, environmental and impact studies, ...),
• training courses (universities, companies, continuing education programs).

The CTP co-operates with Belgian and foreign Universities and with many research centersuch as:

• BCRC (a research centre in Belgium)
• Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and Polytechnic Faculty of Mons (Belgium)
• University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis ( France)
• University of Science and Technology of Lille (France)
• National College of Mining Industries of Rabat (Morocco)
• Escuela Politecnica Nacional of Quito (Equator)
• SRBII (Belgium),
• ISSeP ( a research centre in Belgium),
• Société de l'Industrie Minéral (France)

The CTP possesses important facilities for conducting a scientific research:

• technical library,
• material dressing and analysis laboratories,
• characterisation and solid separation laboratories,
• hydrometallurgical laboratory,
• semi-industrial testing plant of 3400 m²,
• specialised software tools