Other industrial applications
Rheoplus rheology-modifying functional additives and fillers can be used in a wide variety of industrial applications requiring rheological, binding, and adsorption properties, as well as high stability in saline environments and/or across a wide PH range.
Examples Include:
Sepiolite and attapulgite clays are versatile minerals used in friction materials and abrasive emulsions. With fibrous structures and high thermal stability, sepiolite reinforces friction materials, enhancing wear resistance. In abrasive emulsions, sepiolite acts as a thickening agent, aiding particle suspension. Attapulgite's colloidal properties contribute to cohesive friction materials, improving durability. In abrasive emulsions, attapulgite serves as a rheological modifier, preventing particle settling and controlling viscosity.
Sepiolite and attapulgite clays play a crucial role in both traditional brake linings and composite brake pads, serving as versatile substitutes for asbestos. Their fibrous structures and high thermal stability act as reinforcing agents, enhancing wear resistance and durability in friction materials. As substitutes for asbestos, these clays contribute to the development of environmentally friendly brake components, ensuring optimal performance and safety in both traditional and composite brake systems. Their versatile properties make sepiolite and attapulgite valuable components in the evolution of brake technologies.
epiolite and attapulgite clays could be used at gasket sheets and the rubber industry. With their fibrous structures and excellent thermal stability, these clays serve as reinforcing agents, enhancing the mechanical properties and durability of gasket sheets. In the rubber industry, they contribute to improved elasticity, strength, and tear resistance in rubber formulations. Our sepiolite clays, in particular, are widely used as substitutes for asbestos in different gasket rubber formulations. Notably, our extreme-high pure sepiolite clays contain no asbestos, no quartz, and no respirable-free silica, making them safe materials to work with.
Rheoplus sepiolite clays not only excel in suspension control for ceramic glazes and enamel slips but also offer a distinctive advantage with an extremely low iron content. This characteristic ensures that our sepiolite clays are particularly well-suited for applications where minimal iron presence is crucial. With their high shear thinning rheology, these clays serve as optimal setup agents, providing controlled suspension without a significant viscosity increase. Formulations stabilized by Rheoplus sepiolite clays, with their low iron content, are easily pumped and are especially suitable for spray applications onto multifaceted bodies like sanitary ware and tableware.
Our fine powder of high-purity sepiolite serves as an exceptional catalyst support due to its unique properties. Renowned for its binding capacity, hydrocracking activity, metal scavenging ability, resistance to attrition, low bulk density, and precise pore size distribution, our sepiolite clays are instrumental in catalyst formulations. The extreme purity of our sepiolite minerals, devoid of contaminants like carbonates and with minimal metal content that could interfere with catalytic reactions, makes them perfect additives in catalyst production.
Sepiolite clays prove highly beneficial in fiber cement applications, offering a range of advantages. With its thixotropic effect, sepiolite enhances workability, substrate adherence, pumpability, and surface finishing. In the production of fiber cement (FC) using dehydration-pressing techniques like Hatschek, this additive significantly influences the paste's rheology. This modification improves fiber distribution and fine particle retention, particularly in Portland cement (PC) products reinforced with cellulose fibers. It enhances interlaminar adhesion in FC sheets and contributes to an excellent surface finish.
Sepiolite and attapulgite clays serve as exceptional additives in mining slurries and tailings applications, offering unparalleled benefits to the industry. These clays contribute to superior particle suspension, stabilize mixtures, and significantly enhance the workability, flowability, pumpability, and overall performance of high solids formulations. Utilized in a range of applications including Slurry Pipelines, Tailings, Backfill, Mine Seals, and Shotcrete, these clays play a crucial role in building the carrier fluid. This prevents coarse particles from settling at the bottom of the pipeline, enabling increased flow rates and reducing pressure loss.