Industrial paints and coatings need to offer corrosion resistance and an excellent finish without reducing mechanical performance. On top of this, they often need to conform to stringent environmental regulations or limits on their VOC content.
Imerys understands all these challenges and works to create products that improve the quality and durability of your coatings – without raising costs or environmental impact.
Our additives are formulated from natural minerals like wollastonite, perlite, mica, talc, leucophyllite, diatomaceous earth, calcium carbonate and kaolin. When added to the mix, they impart a range of finely tuned qualities such as increased anti-corrosion properties, gloss control, better rheology, added brightness, abrasion resistance and lightweighting.
The right blends can also deliver cost savings by optimizing the effect of expensive raw materials such as titanium dioxide, or reducing your reliance on harmful VOCs.
High-performance extenders for inks
If you’re working with flexographic, offset or rotogravure inks, our mineral solutions can improve their performance and properties, even while cutting costs.
Used in flexographic printing inks, our calcium carbonates, kaolins and talc products can be used to increase dry hiding on porous substrates, maintain whiteness and opacity, improve color performance and improve ink transfer to ensure you get a clean print. They are also effective extenders for titanium oxide, allowing you to cut costs on raw materials.
In offset printing inks, the right formulation of high performance kaolins and treated calcium carbonates will improve lithotronic behavior, provide good water uptake without washout or bleeding, and provide good pigment efficiency and ink mileage. They can also be used to maintain color strength, reduce ink penetration into paper fibers, improve hold-out and reduce strike-through. Use them at high addition levels to start cutting your costs.
Finally, for rotogravure printing inks, our calcium carbonates, kaolins and talc products can be used to increase dry hiding on porous substrates while maintaining whiteness and opacity. They are also effective TiO2 extenders and improve color performance and ink transfer.
