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The Magnesium Business produces specialty magnesium, calcium and strontium metals and alloys. It holds significant market share in several high value-added magnesium market niches, such as state of the art extrusions of high performance alloys for military, electronic and aerospace components, and patented magnesium/calcium alloys for lead batteries. The Corporation also produces and markets specialty calcium and strontium based metal alloys.

The Magnesium Business focuses on manufacturing high-value added magnesium products, which are used in a broad range of specialized applications. Its products are marketed to the water heater, photo engraving, consumer product, sporting goods and container industries amongst others. The Corporation’s extruded and fabricated magnesium products provide superior weight, strength and cost performance in some applications when compared to aluminum and other metal alternatives. [see Magnesium Extruded Products].

It’s high purity magnesium is used in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

About Magnesium
Magnesium is the world’s lightest structural metal with a specific gravity of 1.74 or .063 lb/cu. in. Occurring naturally in the form of various compounds, the principal ores of magnesium are dolomite, magnesite and carnallite. Magnesium also exists in nature as the chloride in seawater, underwater brines and salt deposits.

For engineering applications, magnesium is usually alloyed with one or more elements, including aluminum, manganese, rare earth metals, lithium, zinc and zirconium. The resulting alloys have very high strength-to-weight ratio. While light weight is magnesium’s best known characteristic — aluminum weighs 1.5 times more, iron and steel 4 times more, and copper 5 times more — there are other desirable properties. Magnesium’s excellent machinability makes it economical in parts where weight saving may not be of primary importance, but where much costly machining is required. Such parts, when made of magnesium, can be machined at higher speeds with fewer cuts and with greater economies that are possible with most other metals.

Quality Assurance
All of Timminco’s products are produced under our Quality Assurance Program, which adheres to stringent process and quality controls throughout all steps of production.


MAGNESIUM PRODUCTS \| Product Information Request Form \| Corporate Information Request Form \| Email Contact The Magnesium Business produces specialty magnesium, calcium and strontium metals and alloys. It holds significant market share in several high value-added magnesium market niches, such as state of the art extrusions of high performance alloys for military, electronic and aerospace components, and patented magnesium/calcium alloys for lead batteries. The Corporation also produces and markets specialty calcium and strontium based metal alloys. The Magnesium Business focuses on manufacturing high-value added magnesium products, which are used in a broad range of specialized applications. Its products are marketed to the water heater, photo engraving, consumer product, sporting goods and container industries amongst others. The Corporation’s extruded and fabricated magnesium products provide superior weight, strength and cost performance in some applications when compared to aluminum and other metal alternatives. [see Magnesium Extruded Products]. It’s high purity magnesium is used in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. About Magnesium Magnesium is the world’s lightest structural metal with a specific gravity of 1.74 or .063 lb/cu. in. Occurring naturally in the form of various compounds, the principal ores of magnesium are dolomite, magnesite and carnallite. Magnesium also exists in nature as the chloride in seawater, underwater brines and salt deposits. For engineering applications, magnesium is usually alloyed with one or more elements, including aluminum, manganese, rare earth metals, lithium, zinc and zirconium. The resulting alloys have very high strength-to-weight ratio. While light weight is magnesium’s best known characteristic — aluminum weighs 1.5 times more, iron and steel 4 times more, and copper 5 times more — there are other desirable properties. Magnesium’s excellent machinability makes it economical in parts where weight saving may not be of primary importance, but where much costly machining is required. Such parts, when made of magnesium, can be machined at higher speeds with fewer cuts and with greater economies that are possible with most other metals. Quality Assurance All of Timminco’s products are produced under our Quality Assurance Program, which adheres to stringent process and quality controls throughout all steps of production.