Adhesives and Sealants
Magris talcs – excellent fillers for polyester putties and automotive body fillers
Agriculture
In agriculture, talc-based solutions can provide excellent natural alternatives to chemicals for protecting fruit from the sun’s rays and disease.
Talcs also make effective flow and anti-caking agents for fertilizers. They are ideal solutions for organic farming
Construction
Talc is an excellent process aid for bitumen roofing products and excellent multi-functional fillers for self-leveling and self-smoothing floor mortars.
Paints and Coatings
Talc is an ideal pigment, filler and extender in house and industrial paints and primers, where it improves mechanical and optical properties and production processes. It brings a range of benefits to color concentrates, inks, enamels, varnishes, putties, body fillers, mortars and asphalts.
Paper and Board
Talc is used in the pulp, paper and board industry as a filler and to control pitch and stickies which clog machines impacting runnability. Talc is an effective coating agent in rotogravure and offset papers where it improves runnability and the quality of the finished paper. In certain specialty papers such as colored papers and labels, talc improves quality and productivity.
Putties & Liquid Compounds
Magris Talc offers a range of products which are high-purity, functional additives ideal for putties and liquid compounds. Magris Talc improves dimensional stability and reinforces putties and liquid compounds, giving added protection, against cracking and shrinking.
Rubber
Talc is an excellent reinforcing filler in polypropylene and engineering thermoplastics for automotive parts, domestic appliances and E&E components.
It is used for antiblocking in polyethylene; restores mechanical properties to recycled plastics; and is an ideal nucleating agent in biopolymers and semi-crystalline polymers.