Mining

Antiscalents, Antifoams, Flocculents, Flotation agents

Driven largely by a growing population and rising incomes around the world, agricultural, minerals, sulfide ores and alumina demands are expected to continue rising in order to ensure abundant quantities of food, feed, fiber, energy, jewelries and industrial products where metals are widely used.

To maximize recovery value from a mineral ore CAD Chemical offers advanced additives to precious and base metals operations for solving increasingly difficult problems through a unique range of custom-made additives specifically formulated to provide plants with enhanced kinetics, productivity and throughput.

CAD helps the mining industry meet complex metallurgical, economic, safety and environmental challenges through providing cutting-edge solutions to metal, industrial mineral and alumina processing and help customers wherever they are find new and better approaches to achieve optimum productivity. We are committed to provide technologically advanced chemical additives that brings real value and contributes to the sustainability of the alumina industry.
Fertilizer and mining additives manufactured by CAD Chemical offer the possibility for tailor made product development according to the customer’s specific requirements.

Phosphate Mining & Fertilizers Additives

Throughout last two decades the fertilizer industry has made tremendous progress in developing efficient grades of fertilizers and improved methods of production. The industry has also applied innovative techniques of improving the keeping qualities of fertilizer during long storage as well as coloring the fertilizer to give it a unique identity in the market.

With the advent of new innovative technology which has brought in cost effective, value added, new generation products, it has become imperative that the fertilizer surface coating is done at a comparatively cheaper cost at the same time not compromising on the age old established parameters that go into the formulation of this product. Tira Gulf Arabia is committed to serve fertilizer industries with the latest technology products helping to improve the fertilizer quality with more economical costs which in return will be useful for the agriculture and humanity in general.

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Defoamers: D-Spume® FM Range

In the process of manufacture of Phosphoric Acid, Di & Mono Ammonium Phosphate (DAP/MAP), NP and NPK type of fertilizers there is copious foaming taking place, which needs to be quelled. Foams disturb production sequences in which liquids, particularly water, have an important function as transporting media or solvents, and in the worst cases they can even bring such processes to a standstill. Furthermore, foams can lead to lower production yields and finished products of poorer quality.

Tira Gulf D-Spume® FM product range are specifically designed custom made antifoams of both water and oil base proved to have outstanding performance in different processes including phosphoric acid dihydrate and hemihydrate processes, DAP, NP, NPK and other fertilizers plants.

D-Spume® FM defoamers reduces moisture in the gypsum waste from the filter, facilitating its handling and disposal. The products are fed neat from the tote directly to the second wash where water is added, before the removal of the filter cake.

Extraction recoveries can be further increased by adding D-Spume® FM defoamers to the reactor and second wash.

Using D-Spume® FM defoamers in the digester and/or second wash point reduces P2O5 losses significantly, increasing chemical recovery. The product is added neat by a positive displacement pump. The dose and duration of application varies according to plant and operating conditions.

Anticaking Agents - FertiCot® Range

Poor storage conditions and long storage without conditioning of granular fertilizers result in formation of undesirable lumps and powder sand therefore the benefits of granulation are largely lost by non-uniform application, washing away of powdery fertilizer, and also making mechanical application of fertilizer impossible.

This poor conditioning can lead to a sizable percentage reduction in yields of the farm; all this when a considerable amount of capital is deployed and cost is incurred in NPK/urea plants especially to provide granular product.

Prevention of such caking of fertilizer and making the fertilizer retain its customer values, are achieved by providing a uniform coating of cationic/anionic complex forming chemical formulations, in the final steps of manufacturing process of fertilizer.

CAD FertiCot® anticaking products range help preserve the granular nature of the fertilizer.

The products are specifically designed to suit many applications such as urea, DAP, MAP, NPK, TSP and Nitrate based fertilizers.

Urea Melt Additives - FertiMelt® Range

CAD FertiMelt® urea melt additive is incorporated with active ingredients based on surface activity and ionic activity relating to cohesion and compression of prills with a host of promoters and migrating aids, apart from coupling agents that are required to enable the organic chemicals to effectively interact with the hygroscopic urea fertilizer prills.

Tira Gulf's urea melt additive is system compatible and promotes uniform mixing of the melt thereby enabling prilling with uniform pressure. This in turn gives rise to increase in prill strength as also reducing the fines to the bare minimum.

The minimum and maximum prill strengths and the average prill strength are very close to each other i.e. prill strength is maintained in a close range. Our product is non-toxic in nature, and does not cause any skin toxicity, irritation and micro-organism toxicity related to agricultural use of urea.
FertiMelt® products range is tailor-made based on specific process needs.

Tira Gulf also provides engineering and consultancy services in installation and operation of the dosing systems for controlled and optimized dosage.

Granulating Additives - FertiFix® Range

CAD offers granulation additives under the brand name FertiFix®.

These products are applied to optimize the production process and improve the fertilizer granule quality. They help to increase the bonding and crushing strength of the final product. They also arrest the fines production and practically eliminates dusting in total.

CAD's granulating additives do not in any way interfere with the chemical properties and the end use of fertilizer. Granulating Aid is non-toxic and easily bio-degradable.

Flocculants – N-Floc® Range

CAD has a broad range of flocculants to optimize industrial processes under the name N-Floc®.

The products can improve the filtration rate of a phosphoric acid-gypsum slurry, resulting in lower P2O5-losses. Moreover, they can act as a clarifying agent to separate solid particles from acids more readily.

Alumina

Aluminium is the most abundant mineral, and the third most abundant element on Earth's crust. Alumina is produced by the refining of bauxite, and its primary use is the production of aluminium metal, but is also used in refractories, ceramics, polishing and abrasive applications, and as a fire retardant/smoke suppressant.

Hydrated alumina minerals are a major component of bauxite. These minerals are dissolved, separated from residue, re-precipitated and then converted to alumina. In a separate process, the alumina is smelted to aluminium metal.

CAD provides the alumina industry with value-added, efficiency-enhanced additives during alumina processing. Our W-Floc of flocculants has proven outstanding performance in the solid-liquid separation processes.

The continuing development of our copolymers products range provided significant improvements in refinery economics and red mud disposal. acid flocculants, a quantum leap in flocculent technology for the clarification circuit, providing improved economics, liquor filtration rates and reduced settler scaling.

We also offer a unique range of outstanding performance scale Inhibitors, specifically formulated to eliminate sodalite scale from heat exchangers throughout the Bayer Process.

All of CAD's products are supported by a team of expert field engineers to support our today's solutions and technologies with an eye to future industry needs.

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Sulfide Ores

CAD Chemical is providing a full range of additives for the recovery of sulfide ores (gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, complex sulfides...).

We developed a wide range of specific additives for sulfide ores which are effective over a broad range of flotation conditions and sulfide ore types

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Mineral processing

CAD offers superior additives and approaches for various mining applications including heavy metals management, specific anionic and cationic collectors all mining processes, dewatering aids, anti-scalants and highly selective reagents and modifiers.

CAD continues to provide reliable, creative and specifically designed products to help increase profitability and safety for today's customers through precision targeting of chemistries yields increased recoveries, productivities and safety. Using Tira Gulf products, our customers have been able to attain unequalled benefits and advantages such as optimized reagent performance, maximized recovery of minerals, largely increased yield and improved concentrate grades, all results in significant cost savings.

For mineral flotation we provide expertise services combined with proprietary reagent blends to generate consistent, quantifiable improvements in metallurgical, operational and financial performance.