The origin of Imerys in ceramics can be found dating back to our humble beginnings in Europe beginning in 1782 with UK Kaolins and 1786 with Marcognac deposits in France. Since then Imerys has expanded worldwide to become the world’s leading supplier of high-performance mineral solutions and kiln furniture for the ceramics industry.

We mine and process minerals to offer an extensive portfolio of superior quality minerals such as unique ball clays, extra white kaolins and halloysites, chamottes, feldspars, quartz, talcs and wollastonites.

These make ideal raw materials for bodies, frits, glazes and engobes for ceramics applications like sanitaryware, tableware, tiles or large surfaces. 

But we also offer an extended portfolio of mineral solutions for technical ceramics including kaolins and talcs, alumina, steatite and cordierite bodies.

In addition, we manufacture a large range of ready-made solutions for tableware and sanitaryware customers, including bodies (suitable for most common production processes) as well as glazes available in spray-dried granulates, slurry or powder form.