Ceramic arts
For artisan ceramic workshops, small-scale tableware producers and hobbycraft and ceramic art enthusiasts, Imerys supplies an extensive range of superior quality mineral solutions, including ready-to-use ceramic bodies and glazes produced at our French, German and Mexican operations. Our natural minerals enhance your crafting experience, guaranteeing you exceptional results every time.
Why choose Imerys mineral solutions for ceramic arts and hobby?
Our full range of mineral raw materials cater to diverse applications and techniques such as casting, throwing, and handbuilding. They also accommodate low, mid-range, and high-temperature firing curves.
Our mineral solutions offer quality assurance:
- Kaolin: Our coarse-grained kaolins are known for their excellent casting properties and white-fired color. Our intermediate-grained kaolins offer good green strength and white firing.
- Ball clay: Our ball clays offer unmatched plasticity, superior green strength, and a light-fired color for all your ceramic needs.
- Wollastonite: Our wollastonites provide improved strength and shrinkage control while reducing surface defects and shorter drying times.
The benefits of using Imerys mineral solutions
Using our kaolin, ball clay and wollastonite raw material grades for ceramics means:
- Enhanced performance: Our unique materials deliver beneficial performance, such as firing stability and higher impact strength, supporting your creative projects, and reducing your costs.
- Consistent quality: Harnessing advanced processing techniques, we can guarantee consistent particle sizes and chemistry, while reducing finished product variations and ensuring you get great results each time.
Key ceramic art and hobbyware products include:
Ideal for casting applications, focusing on exceptional white fired color while reducing defects.
Specific product grades:
Americas:
- #6 Tile,
- Diamond
- KT Cast
- Grolleg
EMEA:
- Kaolinor 1C
- Kaolin A (PolWhite)
Perfect for achieving plasticity and durability in any formulation.
Specific product grades:
- Tennessee #10
- Tennessee #1-SGP
- Old Mine #4
- Jackson
- KY Stone
Wollastonite provides lower loss-on-ignition (LOI), enabling glaze formation free of defects, improved thermal stability, and fired brightness.
Specific product grades:
- Nyad M200
- Nyad M325
Helps achieve vibrant colors with minimal impurities and excellent fusibility.
Specific product grades:
- G200 EU
- G200 2R
A high white mineral that is an excellent source of calcium for glazes. Offers consistency in particle size for reliable results.
Specific product grade:
- #10 White
Ideal for creating translucent porcelain bodies as well as a zirconium replacement.
Specific product grade:
- NZCC Ultrafine
Why choose Imerys prepared ceramic bodies and glazes
Our porcelain, earthenware and stoneware prepared bodies for craftware made in France, Germany and Mexico, offer superior quality and versatility for small-scale ceramics production, ceramic artists and hobbyists. Our pure white bodies ensure optimal workability and durability, allowing artists to create intricate details and stunning ceramic pieces. We also offer a wide palette of ready-to-use glazes for all the above ceramic types.
Key benefits of using our bodies and glazes
- Our casting bodies allow artists and artisans to create intricate designs with thin walls, making them ideal for non-functional artwork pieces.
- Our jiggering bodies are ideal solutions for producing more uniform, functional items, making them well-suited for small-scale tableware production.
- Our wide range of transparent and colored glazes is perfectly tailored to our earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain bodies.
Craftware bodies are available in earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. They are designed for either casting or plastic making techniques.
- PT298B: Extra-white low temperature porcelain for plastic shaping
- GC304B: Stoneware body for casting
- FT244B: Low temperature earthenware body with excellent adaptability and enamel compatibility
- Ultrakas T
- Minblanc T
- Stoneware
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