Calcite Powder

Calcite Powder, as it is used for industrial purposes, is extracted by mining or quarrying. The primary type of industrial product is Calcite Powder, as the name implies, involves crushing and processing limestone to create a powdery-like form graded by size and other properties for many different industrial and pharmaceutical applications. As interesting as Calcite Powder may be in nature, its impact and value to our everyday life are truly extraordinary.
Applications

• Paper, Plastics, Paints, and Coatings : Calcite Powder is the most widely used mineral in the paper, plastics, paints and coatings industries both as a filler and due to its special white color w as a coating pigment. In the paper industry it is valued worldwide for its high brigitness and light scattering characteristics, and is used as an inexpensive filler to make bright opaque paper. Filler is used at the wet-end of paper making machines, and Calcite Powder filler allows for the paper to be bright and smooth. As an extender, Calcite Powder can represent as much as 30% by weight in paints. Calcite Powder also is used widely as a filler in adhesives, and sealants.
• Personal Health and Food Production : Calcite Powder is used widely as an effective dietary calcium supplement, antacid, phosphate binder, or base material for medicinal tablets. In products such as baking powder, toothpaste, dry-mix dessert mixes, dough, and . Calcite Powder is the active ingredient in agricultural lime, and is used in animal feed.
• Building Materials and Construction : Calcite Powder is critical to the construction industry, both as a building material in its own right (e.g. marble), and as an ingredient of cement. It contributes to the making of mortar used in bonding bricks, concrete blocks, stones, roofing shingles, rubber compounds, and tiles. Calcite Powder decomposes to form carbon dioxice and lime, an important material in making steel, glass, and paper. Our High end Imported Microniser ensures the highest grade & uniform particle size product for the industries like Plastic & paints.