Talc is an excellent lubricant for rubber during processing and for final goods. Talc is able to reduce friction an to separate from tools.

Talc as a platy mineral is able to reinforce plastics, especially polyolefines. In fact, Polypropylene (PP) compounds for automotives, electro-appliances and garden-furniture regularly contain talc as a functional filler. Talc is able to increase stiffness and improves dimensional stability and lowers shrinkage. Besides PP, also Polyamide, PBTP and PC/ABS take advantage of these minerals properties.

MinTalc products are very white and are used for the complete range of anticorrosive, industrial and decorative paints, in water and solvent based systems. In house emulsion paints require high brightness and lamellar talcs, in order to act as extender for TiO2 and to reduce cracking and sagging of the paints into de walls.

Talc filled emulsion paints provide mat surfaces, with a good dry hiding effect.
In anticorrosive and industrial paints, the platy structure of talc provides good coverage and reduces the water penetration to the metal surface. This fact improves corrosion resistance and the paint adhesion.

Talc is used as a anticaking agent (cereals, soya, rice) and as a filler in chewing gum formulations. These application fields require highest purity talc; MinTalc is able to meet these requirements.

High purity talc is used for a wide range of cosmetics and pharmaceutical applications. The softness, the slippery feeling and the chemical inertness are the predominant properties for these applications. MinTalc is wellknown excipient for the preparation of tablets.

The use of talc changed significantly over the last decades. Coarse talc is used as a paperfiller mainly for SC-paper today. LWC-papers for rotogravure printing often contain micronized talc as a coating pigment in combination with clay and carbonates. Micronized talc is also widely used as a pitch control agent, for soft-& hardwood pulp production and recycled fibres, as well as in mechanical papers (e.g. newsprint), and tissue.