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Ceramics

Ceramics
Product Category:Ceramics

Vanderbilt Minerals, LLC has been serving the ceramics and refractories industry since the early 1920's when our South Carolina clays pioneered the replacement of imported kaolin. Today, Vanderbilt Minerals markets minerals and chemicals that are used globally in the manufacture of quality refractory and ceramic products. Vanderbilt Minerals offers a variety of minerals for the ceramics industry including PEERLESS® Kaolin Clay, PYRAX® Pyrophyllite, VANSIL® Wollastonite, and VEEGUM® Magnesium Aluminum Silicate. DARVAN® Dispersing Agents are highly effective dispersing agents used to lower the viscosity of mineral slurries and to inhibit the settling of particulate solids.

Whiteware

Vanderbilt Minerals, LLC has been serving the ceramics industry since the early 1920's when our South Carolina clays pioneered the replacement of imported kaolin. Today, Vanderbilt Minerals supplies PEERLESS® Clay and DIXIE CLAY® Clay kaolin clays along with VANSIL® Wollasonite and PYRAX® Pyrophyllite to the ceramics industry. Vanderbilt Minerals also offers DARVAN® Dispersing Agents which are highly effective dispersants used to lower the viscosity of particulate slurries and to inhibit the settling of particulate solids.

Refractories

Vanderbilt Minerals, LLC has been serving the refractories industry since the early 1920's when our South Carolina clays pioneered the replacement of imported kaolin. Today, Vanderbilt Minerals supplies a variety of minerals and dispersing agents for refractories applications, including PYRAX® RG Pyrophyllite which is used to make refractories with superior hot load bearing ability, resistance to thermal shock and low coefficient of thermal expansion.