Imerys in Japan
The sales and support team in the Tokyo office is made up of three business divisions based on customer applications: Performance Minerals, Solutions for Energy Transition and Refractory, Abrasives & Construction, and provides a wide range of solutions based on an extensive product portfolio to the Japanese and Southeast Asian markets.
Performance Minerals solutions for plastics, rubber, paints, filtration, ceramics, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and more
Imerys' Performance Minerals sales team offers mineral solutions for a variety of industries such as fillers for plastics, rubber, paint, ceramics and diatomaceous earth (DE) for filtration.
Our Performance Minerals solutions include our world-renowned brand names such as:
- Luzenac HAR®, Jetfine® & ImerFlex®: talc for plastics & rubber
- Hydrite®, Glomax™ & Polestar™: kaolin for plastics, paints & rubber
- Suzorite®: phlogopite mica for plastics, paints & friction materials
- Nyad® & Nyglos®: wollastonite for plastics, rubber & paints
- Celite®, Celpure®, Kenite®, DiaFil®: diatomaceous earth (DE) for filtration, paints & rubber
- ImerShield™: flame retardant synergist for plastics
- ImerCare®：variety of natural minerals for cosmetics
We also have some kaolin products for ceramics applications (catalyst, sanitaryware, and so on).
On top of the above-mentioned minerals, we also have the following items in our offer:
- Perlite
- Bentonite
- Ground & Precipitated calcium carbonate
- Muscovite mica
- Ball clay (natural blend of illite, kaolin and montmorillonite)
- Feldspar (albite, potassium feldspar and lithium feldspar)
Graphite and Carbon Black to support the energy transition
Imerys’ Graphite & Carbon sales teams offer a wide selection of high purity conductive additives, featuring a range of products to meet the needs of the booming lithium-ion battery market for electric vehicles.
They also supply a broad array of carbon blacks and synthetic and natural graphites for use in alkaline and lead acid batteries, fuel cells, plastics, rubber, carbon brushes, brake pads and powder metallurgy and many other business fields.
Our graphite and carbon black ranges include our world-renowned brand names such as:
- C-NERGY™: extremely high purity graphites and conductive carbon black powders for use as conductive additives in lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells
Timrex C-Therm®: for superior thermal conductivity in plastic polymers – ideal for lightweighting and miniaturization - Ensaco®: high purity carbon blacks for fuels cells as well as conductive and antistatic plastics and rubber compounds
- Timrex®: natural, synthetic and high aspect ratio graphite materials and water-based graphite dispersions for alkaline and lead-acid batteries
Solutions for Refractory, Abrasives and Construction
Our Refractories, Abrasives and Building Materials sales team supply a wide range of mineral materials as processing aids for applications in extreme work conditions, including high temperatures and loads.
Refractories: Refractory materials are used in furnace linings, kilns and incinerators in the steel, glass and aluminium industries. Imerys’ refractories team provides solutions to the challenges these industries face such as abrasion, thermal shock, alkaline corrosion, reductive atmosphere and contact with liquid metals. In addition, high quality synthetic materials based on zirconia, alumina and silica are widely used in the investment casting and advanced ceramics markets.
Abrasives: We also offer specialty fused alumina products, which are highly valued by bonded and coated abrasive manufacturers and specialized sandblasting plants nationwide.
Building Chemistry: By providing customized fillers, aggregates and other high-performance products, we support the construction industry in improving sustainability, building protection and durability, aesthetics and productivity. We also work with construction companies and engineers on projects to develop low-carbon concrete and recycled industrial waste materials, while adhering to regional standards and striving to balance performance improvement and environmental protection.
Trusted brands include:
- ALODUR®： fused alumina for advanced ceramics, refractories, and abrasives
- SECAR®：alumina cement for monolithic refractories and building materials
- TECO-SIL®：fused silica for advanced ceramics and refractories
- TECO-SPHERE®：spherical silica for sealing materials
- ZIONIC™：stabilized and monoclinic zirconia powders for structural and functional advanced ceramics and refractories
- TERNAL®：Alumina Cement (SL material for building materials, etc.)
- Fondu：Alumina Cement (SL material for building materials, etc.)
- Fondag®：Fire-resistant concrete for infrastructure applications
- Exalt®：Alumina Cement (Paint for building materials)
- SewperCoat®：Alumina Cement (Sewage Coating Materials for Infrastructure Applications)
- IBECO®：Bentonite (Waterproofing Materials for Construction Materials, etc.)
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Abrasives
Whether you are looking to polish, sand, smoothen, grind, or even cut a workpiece, you want to be sure that the material used, its hardness and grain size are right for the job at hand. We are the world leader in fused minerals for abrasives, ready to assist and deliver on all your finishing needs.
