KRNTNER MONTANINDUSTRIE

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KÄRNTNER MONTANINDUSTRIE

• Company and products for ceramics applications

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Company profile
-Headquarter in Austria / Europe Castle Wolfsberg
Worldwide Exports-Export rate of more than
95. -More than 80 countries
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History

• 1st century B.C. first traces of mining
• 1352 first documents about Waldenstein as a steel
  mill
• 1851 bought by Counts of Henckel of Donnersmarck
• 1876 closing of mine and steel mill
• 1906 reopening of mine and installation of
  processing plant for the production of
  anticorrosive pigments (based on an English
  development)

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Mining and Processing

• underground mining
• dry processing plant

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Quality

• Quality Management ISO 90012000 since 2001

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MIOX - Micaceous Iron OxideBasic Properties

• Particle shape platy
• Mineralogy Hematite
• Chem. formula Fe2O3 (iron-III-oxide)
• Color dark grey to reddish brown, metallic
• Density 4,8 g/cm³
• Hardness 6,06,5 Mohs

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Lamellar structure of MIOX
40 µm
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MIOX - Important quality criteria

• Content of lamellar particles
• Fe2O3 - Content
• Colour grey with metallic sheen
• PSD exact topcut (spraying!)

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MIOX - International Standards

• EN ISO 10601 - 2007
• ASTM D 5532 - 94

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MIOX - Lamellar Particles
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MIOX - Lamellar / Spherical
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MIOX - Lamellar vs. Spherical
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Product Range of MIOX
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MIOX ME - series
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MIOX AS / SG / DB - series
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MIOX MICRO - series
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MIOX SUBMICRO - series
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Overview
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Ceramic MIOX ME series

• Thermal stability
• High melting point 1,500C
• Excellent abrasion resistance
• Interesting optical effects (natural stone
  imitation, metallic effects

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Ceramic MIOX ME series
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Ceramic MIOX ME series