MAGNESIA
What is Magnesia?

In the Ger­man lan­guage, the term Mag­ne­sia not only stands for the name of our com­pa­ny, but is also syn­ony­mous with mag­ne­sium oxide, which is one of our most impor­tant products.

Accord­ing to our name, we can iden­ti­fy our­selves in many aspects with mag­ne­sium oxide, it is ver­sa­tile in var­i­ous tech­ni­cal appli­ca­tions but also var­i­ous pharmaceuticals.

An impor­tant source is waters with high min­er­al con­tent (includ­ing the Dead Sea), from which mag­ne­sium chlo­ride is extract­ed and processed into mag­ne­sium oxide.

Fur­ther­more, nat­ur­al mag­ne­sium oxide is also obtained by tra­di­tion­al min­ing, where min­er­al rocks are extract­ed, select­ed, sep­a­rat­ed, and crushed to small rocks often described as per­i­clase, which basi­cal­ly means mag­ne­sium min­er­al. In this type of extrac­tion, min­er­al rock is grind­ed to small­er gran­ules or pow­der. Sub­se­quent­ly in fur­ther pro­duc­tion process­es, mag­ne­sium oxides are exposed to high tem­per­a­tures (cal­ci­na­tion) to increase prod­uct purity.

These cal­ci­na­tion process­es of mag­ne­sium oxides are split into tem­per­a­ture-relat­ed cat­e­gories known as caus­tic cal­cined (between 800 °C — 1200 °C), sin­tered mag­ne­sia or dead-burnt mag­ne­sia (between 1400 °C — 1800 °C) and elec­tro-fused mag­ne­sia (between 2000 °C — 3000 °C).

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