Ground talc (micro talc white) whiteness up to 99%

APPLICATIONS OF TALC

Some areas of general application of talc:
• Medicine. Talc is used as a tablet filler, and is included in medicines and dietary supplements that contain magnesium and calcium.
• Cosmetics. Talc is included in creams and lotions for body and face, solid deodorants, massage powder, eyeshadows, face powder, foot cream and dusting powder.
• Food industry. Talc is used as a thickener, and also to give glaze and caramel a glossy shine (food additive E553b).
• Rubber industry. Talc is used as an anti-caking agent that prevents rubber, caoutchouc, polymer and leather products from sticking together.
• Production of polymers, foams, rubbers, ceramics, pencil leads, special types of paper, mastics and primers, enamels. Talc imparts increased strength to them.
• Paint and coating products. In paint and coating products talc performs the role of an agent that holds pigments on its surface; it improves hiding power, water resistance and anticorrosive properties.
• Metallurgy. Talc is used as an anti-adhesive coating.
• Some types of dense talc are used as ornamental and facing stone.

The application of talc in modern industry is constantly expanding. Until relatively recently there was only one standard for ground talc, which provided for only four grades of product.
Now, according to the norms of several standards and numerous technical specifications, several dozen varieties of talc and talc-magnesite are produced. Fundamentally new types of powder have also appeared: micro talc and super micro talc – particle sizes of 5–10 and 2–5 microns, respectively. The main industries where talc is used are the following:
Paper and board production – the most actively growing direction of product use today. Special micro talc is used in the manufacture of quality papers, whose distinctive features are both a particularly finely dispersed composition and high whiteness.
Paint and putty production – various grades of powder are used for these, from a special pigment-filler with a strictly regulated chemical composition to products marketed under the general name "ground talc". This depends on the area of application of the paint itself, its color, and other conditions.
Rubber-technical and plastics industries use grades of talc specifically intended for them. Requirements for these, primarily regarding the presence of impurities, differ depending on how critical the product is. The strictest requirements apply to filler for cable sheathing, somewhat less to ordinary rubber filler, and more lenient ones to products for auxiliary use (for dusting).
The roofing materials industry traditionally uses talc powder both for filling and for sprinkling roll materials.
In medicine, food and perfumery industries talc is used both as dusting powder and as a neutral filler in various products. Here control is provided for many parameters, including regulation, for example, of the absence of poisonous impurities such as arsenic.
Talc is also used in agriculture, the production of building mixes, and in many other branches of industry.