Segment 05
Magnesium oxide for rubber, paper, fuel and drilling systems
Low-iron technical magnesium oxide for rubber compounding, paper systems, heavy fuel oil treatment, and water-based drilling fluids.
In rubber, activity sets scorch time, and a drift between lots is a drift in processing safety on your mill. Our low iron MgVanta CCM 98 holds a specified activity window verified on every lot, so your process chemistry stays where you set it. These four applications look unrelated and want the same thing from us: magnesium oxide that behaves in September exactly as it did in March.
The practical value of US-based lot verification: a specification drift is caught in our warehouse, not on your production line.
Grades for this segment
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Low-iron technical magnesia for rubber, paper, fuel and drilling systems.
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The industrial workhorse: high-reactivity caustic calcined magnesia at volume.
What decides fit
The technical picture
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Rubber compounding
An acid scavenger and cure activator in polychloroprene and halobutyl. Activity sets scorch time, so a drift between lots is a drift in processing safety.
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Paper
An alkalinity and pH control agent in pulping and bleaching. Low iron matters because discolouration in a bright grade is not recoverable downstream.
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Fuel additives
Counters vanadium-induced corrosion and neutralises sulphuric acid in combustion. Raises the ash melting point, keeping deposits off hot metal.
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Drilling fluids
Contributes alkalinity and buffering in water-based muds, stabilising rheology against acid gases. Field handling matters as much as chemistry.
Supply
Stocked in the US, verified in the US, documented by MagVanta.
Every grade listed on this page is held in US inventory, verified lot by lot through independent US laboratory testing, and shipped with a MagVanta certificate of analysis, technical data sheet and safety data sheet. You buy from a US company, under US law, at a delivered US price that holds.
Talk to us about industrial.
Describe the system and the volume. We will recommend a grade, confirm stock, and supply sample quantities with full specification data so you can trial it against your own conditions.