# Vervaardiging van schelpkalk

In Hasselt, Overijssel, is the only distillery of shell limestone in the Netherlands which is still in operation. At the distillery, shells from the Wadden Sea are processed into shell lime, which is mainly used for the restoration of monuments. SHOTS: construction workers joint brickwork of a house; shell suction dredger dumps sucked up shells into barge on the Wadden Sea; int. and ext. kilns at the shell lime kiln in Hasselt; burning process of shells after which the burnt shells are sprayed with water and disintegrate into lime; dried lime in packaging hall; ext. Dom Church in Utrecht being restored with shell lime mortar.

- Kind: Film
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producent)
- Archive: [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_671310)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/europeana/2051906~data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_671310?play=1)