Performance Minerals for the Ceramics Industry YOUR TRUSTED MINERAL SUPPLIER As the world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industrial applications, Imerys transforms a unique range of minerals to deliver performance enhancements that are essential to our customers’ products and manufacturing processes. IMERYS, THE WORLD LEADER IN SPECIALITY MINERALS Imerys delivers high value-added, functional solutions to a diversified Empowering our people: We ensure that health and safety come set of industrial sectors, from processing industries to consumer first by developing and continually improving our health and safety goods. The Group draws on its knowledge of applications, culture and systems to strive for an injury-free workplace. technological expertise and its material science know-how to deliver Developing our human capital by respecting internationally solutions based on the benefits of its mineral resources and recognized human rights and labor practices reflect in our Code of formulations. This contributes essential properties for Business Conduct and Ethics; investing in the talent and skills of our high-performance mineral solutions in the ceramic industry for employees; engaging in constructive social dialogue, and fostering a products such as tableware, sanitaryware, floor tiles, fiberglass, culture of workplace diversity and inclusion based on mutual respect. electrical porcelain or technical ceramics. Caring for our planet: Acting as responsible environmental stewards by assessing environmental risks and continually improving control YOUR CHALLENGE, measures to reduce adverse environmental impacts; maximizing the efficient use of natural resources, and preserving biodiversity. OUR EXPERTISE Building for the future: Ensuring exemplary Business Conduct by From bone-china dinner plates, large-format tiles, decorative vases maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance; or stylish bathroom shower trays, the design and quality of ceramics respecting and implementing fair operating practices and ensuring touch many areas of our daily lives. We are the world's leading a responsible supply-chain with all our partners; engaging with local supplier of premium minerals for ceramics, prepared bodies and communities to create shared value through education and glazes as well as kiln furniture for ceramic producers. Our offering skills development. to ceramics manufacturers include high-quality products, formulation services from our dedicated ceramics laboratories, Ensuring that our products are safe for people and the environment state-of-the-art technical laboratories for testing and and developing sustainable solutions that make positive innovation development. contributions to society from both life cycle assessment as well as a long term sustainability perspective. INTEGRATING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ALL WE DO At Imerys, we respect the world in which we operate. Sustainable development is an essential component of the Group’s long term strategy to support growth. We’ve adopted a sustainable approach to our extracting and processing activities, while maintaining a focus on ethical, environmental and social demands. VALUE ADDED SOLUTIONS The origin of Imerys ceramics can be found dating back to our humble beginnings in Europe beginning in 1782 with UK Kaolins and 1786 with Marcognac deposits in France. Since then Imerys ceramics has expanded worldwide to become a leader in mineral solutions and kiln furniture for the ceramics industry. Our range of mineral solutions are produced on our sites in more than 20 countries around the world which include wollastonite, kaolin, ball clay, feldspar and halloysite. Imerys’ unique product range is based on: ⭘ High-quality reserves of minerals available globally ⭘ Strong processing skills and application know-how, supported by a network of competitive industrial facilities ⭘ Innovation and technical support based on a global network of R&D centers and regional laboratories ⭘ Key brands with worldwide recognition in the industry for their product quality and production processes Product characterization Understanding raw materials characteristics is a prerequisite for final ceramic product qualities that’s why we make available our laboratories, equipped with cutting edge technology. Our R&D experts can characterize in detail your products’ samples and help you get the most out of your product. Products for SANITARYWARE Imerys the world leader in industrial mineral solutions and is your trusted partner for efficient sanitaryware production. We offer the largest product portfolio on the market for ceramic body and glaze solutions. Our strategy is to deliver improved performance and greater productivity with the goal of helping our customers achieve ever higher yields and creative design possibilities. From your first installation to the optimization of existing lines, we are uniquely positioned with downstream expertise and solutions on blending, blunging and all the raw materials in between making us a partner of choice to meet your technical and business challenges. Jackson PRODUCTWOLLASTONITEUltrafibe®Nyad® M20 M200BALL CLAYOld Mine Todd#4 LightOld Mine #4/SB L-1 KTS ClassicMartin #5/L-1KAOLIN KT-Cast OptiKast FELDSPARMinspar 200Minspar 170 TYPICAL PROPERTIES CHEMICAL ANALYSIS (%) SiO 52.9 52.9 59.7 58.4 61.7 56.5 63.6 61.9 62.6 45.1 45.2 68.1 67.9 2 Al2O3 0.30 0.30 26.3 27.6 25.2 28.2 22.1 24.0 24.1 38.8 38.7 19.0 19.1 Fe2O3 0.28 0.28 1.3 1.8 1.6 1.3 1.1 1.1 1.0 0.4 0.5 0.07 0.07 TiO2 0.05 0.05 2.0 1.5 1.5 2.2 1.2 1.4 1.4 1.6 1.6 Trace Trace CaO 44.9 44.9 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 2.0 2.0 MgO 0.75 0.75 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.1 Trace Trace Trace K2O 0.23 0.23 1.1 1.3 1.2 0.5 1.1 1.2 1.6 0.1 0.1 3.1 3.4 Na2O 0.07 0.07 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 7.9 7.7 L.O.I (1000oC) 0.50 0.50 9.3 10.6 9.3 10.7 8.8 9.0 8.1 13.6 13.6 0.2 0.2 Carbon - - 0.5 0.9 0.6 0.5 1.6 1.2 0.9 0.03 0.03 Trace Trace PARTICLE SIZE Median Particle Size (μm) 24 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 5μm (% less than) - - 83 92 83 87 64 70 65 75 74 19.8 17.5 2μm (% less than) - - 68 73 57 76 45 51 45 60 55 6.9 5.5 MESH SCREEN DATA 325 Mesh (% retained) - - 3.0 2.1 1.5 3.5 3.0 3.2 4.0 5.0 6.0 3.9 10.9 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES Specific Surface Area (m2/g) 0.8 1.1 23.1 27.7 23.9 23.3 16.5 18.0 14.4 12.0 11.0 1.2 1.0 M.B.I. (Meq/100g) - - 9.2 12.8 11.1 7.6 6.9 7.2 5.9 2.5 2.4 - - Soluble Sulfate SO4 (ppm) - - Low Low Med. Low Med. Med. Med. Low Low - - pH 9.9 9.9 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.2 4.4 4.4 4.5 5.5 5.7 8.7 9.0 OUR RAW MATERIALS PROVIDE: ⭘ Consistency of production ⭘ Prepared bodies expertise ⭘ Solutions for conventional and pressure casting ⭘ Solutions for fine fireclay The properties stated are typical properties and do not constitute a specification. Products for SANITARYWARE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION WOLLASTONITE Ultrafibe® M20 is a high purity, high aspect ratio wollastonite KTS Classic is a medium grained ball clay with a good overall plasticity recommended for traditional ceramic formulations to replace calcium and green strength. It is specifically designed to meet specific casting tar- carbonate and/or silica. It will increase the green and fired impact strength, gets. reduce shrinkage, reduce drying time, and reduce vitrification temperature. Martin #5/L-1 is a coarse-grained, fast casting ball clay used exclusively in Nyad® M200 is a high purity, coarse wollastonite recommended for casting bodies. ceramic bodies and glazes. The high purity combined with low loss on ignition enables glaze formation with reduced defects, improved thermal KAOLIN stability and lower coefficient of thermal expansion while maintaining high KT-Cast is a coarse-grained, white firing kaolin that is used primarily in fired brightness. casting bodies based on its fast casting and exceptional deflocculation characteristics. OptiKast is a coarse-grained kaolin used in ceramic applications. It has fast BALL CLAY cast and exceptional deflocculation characteristics. Old Mine #4 is a fine-grained ball clay with excellent plasticity and strength that is very popular in both casting and plastic formed bodies. It FELDSPAR is also widely used as a suspension aid in glazes. Minspar 200 is a flotation grade mixed feldspar used in glazed and Todd Light is a fine-grained ball clay providing excellent strength clay bodies. and plasticity. Minspar 170 is a high quality mixed feldspar milled to 170 mesh Old Mine #4/SB is a fine grained ball clay that is an specifications which provides a slightly coarser option to maximize exceptional casting product with high plasticity and green strength cast rate. characteristics. Jackson is a fine-grained, high alumina ball clay known for its excellent fired color, strength and plasticity used in both casting and plastic formed bodies. L-1 is a coarse-grained, fast casting ball clay used exclusively in casting bodies. Products for TABLEWARE Imerys supplies a unique range of high-quality wollastonite, ball clay, kaolin, feldspar, and halloysite for the tableware manufacturer industry. Derived from high quality deposits, our raw material minerals are benchmarks for tableware, whiteware and hotelware that provide outstanding mechanical properties, translucency and whiteness.