Products of Iron Ore Processing
Why is iron ore processing important to our economy? About 98% of iron ore goes through iron ore processing and is used to make steel - one of the greatest inventions and most useful materials ever created. While the other uses for iron ore processing and iron are only a very small amount of the consumption, they provide excellent examples of the ingenuity and the multitude of uses that man can create from our natural resources. Custom Processing Services, a contract manufacturer offering toll manufacturing services and toll processing, or tolling, provides a range of drying, sizing, and mixing services.
Iron ore processing is a process that provides a range of coarse sizing which can produce material in 24-inch to .0017-inch particle sizes. Methods used to achieve custom iron ore processing results include jaw crushing, impact crushing, roll crushing, and pulverizing.
The reason iron ore processing is important to our economy is that once processed iron ore can be manufactured into many products. For example:
- Powdered iron is used in metallurgy products, magnets, high-frequency cores, auto parts, catalyst.
- Radioactive iron (iron 59) is used in medicine, tracer element in biochemical and metallurgical research. Iron blue is used in paints, printing inks, plastics, cosmetics (eye shadow), artist colors, laundry blue, paper dyeing, fertilizer ingredient, baked enamel finishes for autos and appliances, industrial finishes.
- Black iron oxide is used as pigment, in polishing compounds, metallurgy, medicine, magnetic inks, in ferrites for electronics industry.
Iron ore processing methods have become so refined that many products can be manufactured with materials that have gone through these custom processing services. Custom Processing Services is a contract manufacturer (toll processor) offering micronizing, ultra-fine grinding, blending, surface treating, heat treating and packaging for materials such as chemicals, pharmaceutical excipients, waxes and minerals just to name a few.