Tableware
Addressing tableware manufacturers’ challenges with advanced mineral solutions
Tableware manufacturers across luxury, HoReCa (hotel, retail and catering) and consumer markets, currently face a number of challenges: heightened competition, margin and cost pressures, rising production and energy prices, as well as increasing demands and regulations surrounding sustainability — particularly with regards to CO₂ emissions reductions. To remain competitive, they must continuously optimize both their products and production processes.
Drawing on decades of expertise in ceramics and minerals, Imerys delivers solutions designed to meet your distinct tableware production needs, while simultaneously addressing critical challenges you are facing related to cost, quality, and sustainability.
Premium mineral solutions for luxury, hospitality and consumer tableware
We offer raw materials, prepared bodies, transparent and colored glazes and kiln furniture solutions, including ready-made and tailored solutions, to meet the specific requirements of manufacturers from all tableware segments, including luxury and fine-dining, HoReCa and consumer dinnerware.
Elevating elegance with Imerys’ high-end porcelain solutions
Our premium selection of highly pure kaolins and extra-white porcelain bodies are ideal solutions for satisfying the most exclusive standards demanded by the luxury and fine dining tableware segments where they guarantee exceptional whiteness and translucency. Our unwavering commitment to excellence has earned us the trust of the most prestigious luxury tableware brands worldwide.
High-resistance porcelain, vitreous china and stoneware solutions for the HoReCa and consumer sector
Our high-resistance porcelain, vitreous china and stoneware solutions are benchmarks worldwide with tableware manufacturers serving the hotel, retail and catering (HoReCa) sector and consumer dinnerware markets. Our vitreous china solutions include a range of warm colored bodies, in various translucencies, which demonstrate excellent mechanical resistance and give a modern aesthetic.
Prepared bodies to boost your production yield
Leveraging our extensive mineral portfolio and expertise, we work closely with customers to offer tailored prepared body formulations that match your exact needs — alongside a portfolio of compatible glazes.
This integrated offer provides you with the stability and the consistent quality you need, allowing you to focus on optimizing your production yield — and eliminating the need for expensive investments in slip houses, body preparation and raw material silos, etc.
Ready-to-use transparent and colored glaze formulations
Our specialized glaze formulation facilities in France and Germany provide ceramic glazes in a ready-to-use format that is compatible with both modern and traditional manufacturing methods, including:
- Spray-dried granulates
- Slurry
- Dry powder
We supply both transparent glazes and a diverse selection of coloured glazes, which are detailed in our Tableware colored and transparent glazes brochure.
High-end consistent quality raw material solutions
In addition to prepared bodies, Imerys offers a full range of high-end raw material solutions — including kaolin, ball clay, feldspar and halloysite — distinguished by a high level of consistency and strict quality controls. These materials deliver outstanding mechanical strength and plasticity, while maintaining very low levels of iron oxide and titania, resulting in exceptional whiteness and translucency in your tableware end products.
Consistent quality, technical support and sustainability assessments
To ensure your operations run smoothly, we supply consistent, high-quality minerals and ceramic bodies that guarantee the reliability of your tableware, batch after batch.
Our global team of technical support experts is also ready to assist you in developing custom solutions tailored to your specific tableware needs.
Using advanced analytical tools, we also provide in-depth material and formulation analysis, as well as defect analysis and troubleshooting services to quickly identify and resolve any quality issues you may have.
Our efficient logistics network enables fast, worldwide delivery, so you can count on receiving your materials exactly when and where you need them.
Additionally, we offer comprehensive sustainability evaluations, including carbon footprint calculations and full lifecycle analyses for all our raw materials and ceramic bodies.
