Ball clay is vital in the ceramics industry for the manufacturing of sanitaryware, tableware, tiles and slabs, technical ceramics, and electrical porcelains. It is essential for controlling plasticity and casting properties of the ceramic body, improving workability and enhancing green and dry strength. Specially engineered ball clays offer fine particle size, controlled firing colour, rheological stability, low firing shrinkage, and strong binding properties for demanding ceramic applications across all segments.
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Why Ball Clay is the preferred choice for ceramic formulations
Comprehensive range of Ball Clay grades for diverse industrial applications
Refined ball clay for sanitaryware body formulations, offering high plasticity and modulus of rupture (MOR) for precise shaping and excellent performance in slip casting of sanitaryware pieces.
Specially engineered ball clay for sanitaryware, delivering exceptional plasticity, unfired strength, light firing colour, and superior binding properties for consistent sanitaryware body formulation performance.
Essential raw material for tableware ceramic bodies, valued for high whiteness, fine particle size, and excellent plasticity. Enhances workability during casting and pressing, ensuring smooth shaping and uniform structure.
Widely used in tile engobe and glaze compounds for its fine particle size, high plasticity, and excellent binding properties. Improves workability, suspension, and adhesion to tile body for a smooth, uniform coating.
Specialty ball clay with unique properties for various ceramic applications. Its plasticity, unfired strength, light firing colour, and excellent binding properties make it an effective ingredient in engobe and glaze compounds.
Refined ball clay for electrical insulator bodies, valued for high plasticity, fine particle size, and strong binding properties. Contributes to improved green strength, allowing the insulator to maintain its shape during handling and drying.
Common questions about Ball Clay in ceramic applications
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Ball clay is a fine-grained, highly plastic clay mineral essential in ceramics for controlling plasticity, casting properties, and binding performance. It enhances green and dry strength, ensures smooth workability during shaping, and contributes to consistent firing behaviour across sanitaryware, tableware, tiles, and insulators.
Ball clay provides the ideal combination of plasticity and rheological stability in casting slips. It controls the flow rate and consistency of the slip, ensuring uniform mould filling, good casting rate, and easy release, resulting in dimensionally accurate sanitaryware pieces.
Unfired (green) strength is the mechanical strength of the ceramic body before firing. High unfired strength — provided by ball clay — allows the shaped body to be handled, dried, and transported without deformation or cracking, which is critical in automated sanitaryware and tile manufacturing.
Firing colour determines the aesthetic whiteness of the final ceramic product. Our Ceraplas grades are specifically engineered to deliver light to near-white firing colour, ensuring that the ceramic body and glaze achieve the brightness required for premium sanitaryware and tableware.
CERAPLAS F32 is specifically designed for tile engobe and glaze compounds, offering fine particle size, high plasticity, and excellent binding properties that ensure smooth coating, good adhesion to the tile body, and a uniform, defect-free glaze surface.
CERAPLAS EP 1033 is engineered for electrical porcelain, providing exceptional plasticity, controlled residue, low firing shrinkage, and high unfired strength. These properties ensure precise shaping and dimensional stability in high-voltage electrical insulator body formulations.
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