| Aluchem AluChem is one of the largest specialty Alumina producers in the United States. The company produces a broad range of high quality Hydrated, Calcined, Reactive, Tabular and Activated Aluminas. Hydrated aluminas are used as flame retardant fillers in plastics and rubber compounds. AluChem's hydrated aluminas offer the lowest soluble soda content available providing superior electrical performance. |
American Colloid Company
Sodium and Calcium Bentonite Clays: Granular to very fine (625 mesh) grades, USP grades including USP-NF/CTFA White Bentonite and Magnesium Aluminum Silicates.
BASF - The Chemical Company
Dispersions & Pigments BASF's color pigment product line includes a broad range of classical, medium and high performance organic pigments, complex inorganic pigments, pigment dispersions and universal colorants. These pigments impart color and special effects to automotive finishes, coatings, plastics and inks, enhancing the performance and value of finished goods.
Pearlescent Pigments BASF's pearlescent pigments provide a range of special effects from a soft, satin luster to a sharp, metallic brilliance in coatings, cosmetics, personal care, packaging, plastics and inks. BASF's pearlescent pigment line includes mica flakes coated with titanium dioxide and/or ferric oxide, bismuth oxychloride crystals and natural pearl essence derived from fish scales. Pearlescent pigments enhance the appearance and value of products ranging from automobiles and furniture to cosmetics and roofing panels.
Specialty Minerals BASF's specialty minerals-based product line of performance additives made from kaolin, attapulgite and mica are used to improve the performance, appearance and value of coatings, plastics, rubber, adhesives, inks, concrete and cosmetics. These specialty minerals serve a range of functions, such as: reinforcement in plastics and rubber, extension of more expensive materials such as TiO2 and color pigments, thickening and suspension in coatings and many more. |
| Delta Colours, Inc. Iron Oxide Pigments, Ultramarine Blue and Zinc Ferrite. |
Dow Corning Corporation
Silicone antifoams, fluids, resins and paint additives. Silicon-based technology from Dow Corning brings a wide range of unique advantages to the coatings industry. Additives from Dow Corning improve the performance of paints, inks, coatings and adhesives. Dow Corning binders impart outstanding heat and UV resistance to maintenance and other coatings.
With a long list of products approved for use by numerous regulatory agencies. Dow Corning silicon-based technology is helping customers improve food processes, products and packaging operations around the world. From controlling foam in aqueous baths to the production of materials for food-contact packaging, Dow Corning has the experience and the know-how to help customers meet many of their most difficult food and beverage processing needs.
Please click on the Dow Corning hot link to learn more about these products. |
DuPont Titanium Technologies - Rutile Titanium Dioxide. Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) is the most important white pigment used in the plastics and coatings industries. It is widely used because it efficiently scatters visible light, thereby imparting whiteness, brightness and opacity when incorporated in coatings or plastic products. Grades are differentiated by their purity (TiO2 %), the amount of surface treatment and the type of surface treatment. The different surface treatments provide improvements in performance properties such as: dispersability, hiding power, weatherability and discoloration resistance. R-706 was developed as a general purpose coatings grade and R-103 was developed as a general purpose plastics grade. Please check the hotlink to DuPont for more specific information. |
| Excalibar Excalilbar is a quality processor and supplier of industrial minerals. Their services include sourcing, processing, packaging and distributing high quality minerals used as fillers/extenders in paint, plastics, ceramics and oil service end products. Excalibar Minerals' White High Purity Barytes products are manufactured from the highest quality natural barium sulfate ore. Barytes grades are differentiated by particle size and brightness. Median particle sizes range from 2 to 15 microns. |
Hampshire Chemical
Daxad Polyelectrolyte dispersing agents.
Hexion Specialty Chemical
Epon® Resins, Epi-Rez® Waterborne Resins, Eponol® Resins, Heloxy® Modifiers, and Epi-Cure® Curing Agents. A complete line of epoxy resins and curing agents for coatings, flooring, adhesives, composites and other civil engineering applications. Curing Agents include: Amido Amines, Polyamides, Aliphatic Amines, Modified Cycloaliphatic Amines, and Aromatic Amines. |
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Malvern Minerals
Novacite® is a quartz silica unique in the extender/filler market. Graded by micron size, the individual, unagglomerated particles tend toward a platey structure, which promotes superior leveling, meshing and wear-resistance in many performance applications. Novacite® has the lowest published oil and water adsorbtion of any silica on the market today, this, and its basic absence of sub-1 micron particles enable the formulator to achieve higher solid loading without higher viscosity.
Specialty Minerals, Inc.
Specialty Minerals Inc. (SMI) manufactures precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), ground calcium carbonate (GCC) and ground limestone, talc and barytes in more than 60 locations around the world. Having more than 55 precipitated calcium carbonate plants, SMI is the world's largest manufacturer of PCC, with output of more than 4 million tons each year. Many of these plants are PCC satellite plants located at the site of the paper mill that they serve.
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Tokoyama Soda, Inc.
Fumed Silica (fumed silicon dioxide) and surface treated Hydrophobic fumed silica; efficient thickening and thixiotropic agents for most systems, free flow and anti-caking agents for resins, foods, etc. |
U. S. Gypsum
Hydrous, anhydrous and dihydrate forms of calcium sulfate. Snow White and Terra Alba are commonly used as fillers or diluents in products requiring an inert of good white color, uniformity and comparative softness (2-2.5 on MOHS scale). These products are used in: pharmaceuticals, pigments, paint, wood fillers, leather, plastics, adhesives and textiles. |
| U. S. Zinc US Zinc is the second largest producer of zinc oxide in the world. The company has had tremendous growth through acquisition during the 1990's. In 1992 the company acquired Pasco, in 1994 they acquired ASARCO and in 1999 they acquired North American Oxide. These acquisitions demonstrate their commitment to the business, as well as, assure their customers with a reliable non-interrupted supply of zinc oxide. They are the only North American producer with multiple plants. Please click on this hotlink for more information about US Zinc. |
World Minerals, Inc.
Celite diatomite - diatomaceous earth. Natural, calcined and flux calcined grades for numerous filler applications and low cost extender pigments and flatting agents for paint. Synthetic, hydrous calcium silicate with high liquid absorption for dry liquid concentrates, conditioning and carrier applications. |
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