Real world use of our industrial minerals for manufacturers

Application

Automotive Parts

Minerals reinforce polymers; MicaFort, a high aspect ratio mineral, provides very efficient warpage reduction and an improved surface finish for automotive parts.

Application

Brake pads

Brake pads can contain up to 20 different ingredients. Our customers use both MicaFort and MagniF to produce this part of the braking systems in cars.

Application

Decorative flooring

Use DekorFlake to provide natural sparkle and glitter in a variety of flooring types such as vinyl flooring, tile flooring, concrete flooring or epoxy flooring.

Application

Detectable Polymers

MagniF is capable, due to its high density and ferri-magnetic properties, of making polymers metal detectable with high-frequency coil.

Application

Flame Retardant Foams

Our customers use either UltraCarb or FireCarb in the manufacture of foams as a flame retardant filler or intumescent additive.

Application

Sound dampening

To block sound transmitting a polymer with significant weight will ensure a reduction in transmission.

Application

Bed Material

We have boiler bed material products available to alleviate problems such as build ups of slag, bed freezing and bed agglomeration.

Application

Concrete weight coating

MagnaDense aggregate in concrete weight coating (CWC) for pipelines increases negative buoyancy and gives mechanical protection against sea motions.

Application

Heavy media separation

The industry uses Magnetite to produce dense medium separation slurry for coal washing, mineral processing and recycling of metals and plastics.

Application

Adhesives and sealants

LKAB Minerals manufactures a range of mineral fillers used in sealants and adhesives for cost reduction, rheology modification and pigment extension.