Ceramic arts & hobbycraft
Hobbycraft and ceramic art enthusiasts take a look at minerals with our extensive range of superior quality mineral solutions designed for the hobby craft and artware communities. Our natural minerals enhance your crafting experience, ensuring exceptional results in your project.
Why choose our mineral solutions for Imerys ceramic arts and hobby?
- Our products cater to diverse applications and techniques such as casting, throwing, and handbuilding. They also accommodate low, mid-range, and high-temperature firing curves.
- Superior quality assurance:
- Kaolin: Our coarse-grained kaolins are known for their excellent casting properties and white-fired color. Our iIntermediate-grained kaolins offer good green strength and are white firing.
- Ball clay: Our ball clays offer unmatched plasticity, superior green strength, and light-fired color for all your ceramic needs.
- Wollastonite: Improved strength and shrinkage control while reducing surface defects with shorter drying times.
The benefits of our minerals
- Enhanced performance: Our unique materials deliver beneficial performance, such as firing stability and higher impact strength, supporting creative endeavors, and at the same time reducing expenses.
- Consistent quality: Our advanced extraction techniques provide consistent particle sizes and chemistry while reducing finished product variations and ensuring 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:
- #6 Tile,
- Diamond
- KT Cast
- Grolleg
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
Find all product grades available for Ceramic arts & hobbycraft in our Document finder
The Imerys Americas team is proud to work with Hammil & Gillespie as our exclusive Ceramic Arts Distributor.
Kaolin
Kaolin is a rock from which the clay mineral kaolinite is derived. This one has been used for millennia as the principal ingredient in porcelain tableware. Today Imerys kaolins bring critical properties to a host of end applications ranging from paper to paints, fiberglass to cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
