High Quality Building Products Using Carbonates and Talcs
Today’s beautiful homes and attractive commercial and industrial buildings result from the development of high-quality, durable components manufactured by the building products industry.
Limestone, or ground calcium carbonate, is one
of the most commonly used minerals in building products and construction applications, along with a related mineral, dolomite, a calcium magnesium carbonate. As fillers and extenders, these materials provide improved performance and cost benefits
to a broad range of industrial, environmental, and agriculture applications that impact our daily lives. Building product applications include asphalt roofing shingles, vinyl floor tile and sheeting, tape joint compounds, glass, stucco, concrete,
masonry, and swimming pool plasters. Talcs are also used in a variety of paints, plastics and joint compounds. Ultrafine coated Specialty Precipitated Calcium Carbonates are used as rheology modifiers in a range of construction sealants and adhesives.
Combining research and development with Application Technology and support to customer trials, we are well positioned to supply you with high-performance products or to work with you to develop new grades tailored to your building product
application.
Building Products With Minerals
Out products play functional roles in a variety of components used in residential and commercial construction, such as:
- Sealants and Adhesives
- Roofing including Asphalt shingles, TPO and EPDM systems
- Paint & Coatings
- Plastics (PVC, PP, PE, Thermosets)
- Block and Stone
- Stucco
- Flooring
- Joint Compound
- Pool Plaster
Specialty Minerals supplies crushed, screened, ground, and pulverized limestone and dolomite products direct from our quarries in Adams, Massachusetts, Canaan, Connecticut, and Lucerne Valley, California. Talc is mined, ground, and sold by Barretts Minerals Inc. (BMI) in Barretts, Montana. Specialty Precipitated Calcium Carbonate is produced at Adams, MA and Lifford, UK.