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Bentonite being an eco-friendly carrier of fertilizers and is widely accepted by DAP, NPK and SULPHUR fertilizer manufacturers.It enhance microbial activities and improves the fertility of the soils, provides an envelope to grain thereby reducing loss of product, keeps grain dry, act as an soil activator & has many others characteristics.
It seals lower bed of the soil to reduce percolation of water and decreases water pollution. It acts as a soil activator and turns saline soil into neutral. Helps to increase the dark colour of the leaves, enhancing thereby it’s photosynthesis process which is very important for the growth and good health of the plant. There is an appreciable increase in the yields of the crops due to improved soil health. Being soil like and non toxic is eco-friendly.

Civil Engineering grade bentonite is sodium based processed colloidal bentonite treated with polymers. Grades are customized according to meet rheological property to achieve desired marsh funnel viscosity.
Sodium Bentonite is suitable for Piling, Diaphragm Walling, Trenchless Drilling, HDD, Micro Tunneling & Shield Tunneling. Bentonite is grind to fine powder to form thixotropic gel allowing slurry to penetrating deep into cleavages cracks and clogging the pores. At lower dosages develops good suspensions as soil sealing and friction agent, also stabilizes the excavations

Bentonite is an organophilic clay that is a highly effective rheological additive for oil & synthetic based fluids systems, specially at elevated temperatures. Bentonite is derivative of a hectorite clay that is highly effective rheological additive for solids suspension & hole cleaning in oil & synthetic based drilling fluids.
Bentonite is stable at elevated temp above 1500C & is effective for improving rheological properties and controlling sag. Bentonite also helps to reduce HPHT fluid invasion.

Raw Magnesite is used as a flux in the ceramic batch formula to improve mechanical properties, decrease water absorption and required firing peak temperature.
Another important outlet of Magnesium Carbonate is as a panel engobe ingredient to impart refractoriness and prevent the tiles from sticking on the kiln rollers at high temperatures. Finally, Magnesium Carbonate is used as a glaze ingredient.

Application

• Bentonite is a clay mineral predominantly consisting of the mineral Montmorillonite mixed with some related minerals like Nontronite and Beidellite. These are three-layered Aluminosilicates with molecules of water between layers. For natural Sodium Bentonite, exchangeable sodium cations are predominant, rather than other cations like calcium, magnesium etc. Similarly in Calcium Bentonite, calcium cations are predominant. In fact, in all Bentonites available in the world, the sodium variety has high swelling and gelling properties along with good viscosity and liquid limit.
• The Bentonite found in the Kutch region of India is of an igneous origin. It was formed millions of years ago, possibly from the volcanic ashes falling in stagnant saline water in semi-arid conditions. Due to the natural characteristics of these particular volcanic ashes, the chemical composition of this Bentonite is somewhat different from the Bentonite available in the rest of the world. Most of these deposits are of Natural Sodium Bentonite with higher iron content, which gives them their darker colour. Due to the very fine particle size, this Bentonite shows extra-ordinary swelling capacity and bonding powers.
• These differences makes the Kutch Bentonite most useful in various industries throughout the world.

Foundry ApplicationAll cast iron, steel & malleable iron foundries are almost using Bentonite with cost efficient results. Kutch region is famous for a very good sodium Bentonite for casting industries. For continuous mould making also Kutch Bentonite is used successfully

Due to bentonite’s water absorption capacity and colloidal properties, bentonite is used as binding additives to convert iron ore fines to pallets. Fine powder helps in to develop good strength pallets. Even at lower additions develops excellent green and dry ball strength. Better binding strength is maintained before and after firing of pallets. High absorption capacity enables to build bond of pallets and prevent caking or clumping.

Kaolin serves as a valuable component in ceramics, Porcelain and Tableware. Its color, gloss and hardness are ideal characteristics for such products.
Kaolin is used extensively in the ceramic industry, where its high fusion temperature and white burning characteristics makes it particularly suitable for the manufacture of ceramics, porcelain, tableware and refractories. In the manufacture of white ware the kaolin is usually mixed with other minerals. These components are necessary to obtain the proper properties of plasticity, shrinkage, vitrification, etc., for forming and firing the ware.
Kaolin is generally used alone in the manufacture of refractories.

Kaolin / Chinaclay have an ancient use as a skincare product. Kaolin’s absorbent property allows it to pull oils and dirt out of the skin. It is commonly used in clay masks or as an additive to baths to sooth the skin. Fine Powder allows to absorbs oil and reduce greasiness, depending on as they are formulated. Fine kaolin powder is important ingredients used for composition of sun screen lotion.

Kaolin is also used as an extender and flattening agent in paints. It is mainly used in architectural water-based paints and industrial coatings. The fine particle size distribution, surface charge and platy structure of kaolin enhances the functional properties of paint film like opacity and gloss, It also improves the anti-settling and rheology properties of paint. The regular grade kaolin are used as functional filler in high and medium PVC water based paint.

Kaolin is used for filling rubber to improve its mechanical strength and resistance to abrasion. For this purpose, the clay used must be extremely pure kaolin and exceedingly fine grained.

The primary use of kaolin is in the paper industry as a paper coating which improves appearance by contributing to brightness, smoothness and gloss.  It also improves printability.  Additionally, it is used by the paper industry as an filler reducing cost and the use of tree-based resources.
It is frequently used in adhesives for paper to control the penetration into the paper.