Imerys Sanitaryware is the world leading supplier of raw materials with the largest range of minerals for sanitaryware. Our product line includes ball clay, chamotte, kaolin and feldspar. We are also number one in the production of fully prepared bodies. With a strategic presence in Asia, Europe and the Americas, we have the resources to serve customers anywhere in the world.

Imerys Sanitaryware supplies raw materials with exceptional product homogeneity that meet the international quality control standard ISO 9001:2000. We offer a specialised range of products for all types of sanitaryware applications: vitreous china, fine fireclay (FFC), conventional casting and pressure casting. For instance, for customers using pressure casting techniques, we have products such as our Hycast Rapide ball clay and our Maxicast kaolin which have been specially developed to optimise performance in automated processes. As for FFC production, we offer an unrivalled package which includes Hycast FFC, a FFC-specific ball clay; renowned chamotte from AGS; and Spica, our prepared body plant specialised in FFC.

We make product recommendations according to the specific needs of individual customers. A wide variety of factors can affect performance such as the plant's capacity to work different production slips simultaneously or the restrictions on the number of ball clay and kaolin products that they can store. Equally important are production conditions: slip temperature, density, human handling and so on. In order to strike the best balance between all these variables and to make the most meaningful recommendations we invite you to contact us for a discussion with one of our technical sales managers.

A sanitaryware plant's yield is the ratio between the number of pieces put in for production and the good pieces actually produced. Imerys Sanitaryware's research and experience with customers show that this is one of the most important drivers of profitability in a sanitaryware plant. For this reason, our goal is to achieve optimal yield and productivity for our customers using a tailored approach which helps them to improve performance; to reduce costs; and to develop their processes for higher efficiency.

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