Paint & Coatings

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Barrier

Kaolin is chemically inert and impervious, making it useful for improving barrier properties. KaMin’s ultrafine kaolin will allow for higher loading levels, when compared to coarser minerals, decreasing the permeability of the coating, while maintaining flexibility and impact strength.

Maintain Gloss / Extend Resin

KaMin’s ultrafine clay is the premium extender in gloss and semi-gloss formulas. Particle size and platy morphology are optimized for extending more expensive pigments and binders while maintaining desired gloss levels.

Service

KaMin has spent nine decades exceeding customer expectations in both quality and service. Our technical service team, sales managers and customer service experts challenge themselves each day to find new ways to better serve our customers. They are backed by our research scientists, engineers, operations, and logistics teams, who work tirelessly to improve customer satisfaction.

Efficient TiO2 Extension

Ultrafine kaolin’s optimal particle size and platy morphology allow it to properly space titanium dioxide particles, leading to improved hiding efficiency without a reduction in gloss performance.

Wide Range of Products

KaMin’s products have a wide range of particle sizes that offer various benefits. The geographic diversity of our raw materials and the innovative processes at our manufacturing facilities provide unique and consistent value-added products.

Our products are beneficial to your formulation and your bottom line.

Value From the Ground Up

KaMin LLC has supplied solutions to the paint and coatings market for many

years. KaMin’s proprietary processing technologies and high quality reserves

produce kaolin products useful in a variety of paint and coatings applications,

including industrial, architectural, powder, and specialty coatings.

TiO2 TiO2 Kaolin

Value From the Ground Up

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KaMin 2000c has a pore structure engineered to allow formulators to reduce binder usage, leading to significant cost savings without sacrificing performance.

15,000x magnification.

Scrub Resistance Analysis

Calcined Kaolin

Calcined kaolin clay is produced when hydrous kaolin is heated to over 1000°C. The crystal structure collapses, and

the material becomes amorphous. The rearrangement of the crystal structure of kaolin which comes with a loss of

hydroxyl groups makes calcined clays harder, more abrasive and more porous than their water washed counterparts.

Calcined Kaolin

PVC (%) 62 66

Contrast Ratio 96.2 96.3

Scrub Resistance 209 211

Binder Savings -- 15%

Calcined Clay A KaMin® 2000C Interior Flat paint formulation

KaMin ® 70CKaMin ® 2000C

Titanium Dioxide Extension

Improved Opacity

Low Sheen

Increased Impact Strength

Reduced Surface Tackiness

Easy Touch-Up

Excellent Tint Strength

Easily Dispersible

Benefits

Don’t Compromise.Do more with KaMin calcined kaolin.

KaMin® 2000C

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Narrow Particle Size Distribution

Tightly controlled particle size and particle size distribution allow Polygloss® 90 and KaMin® HG90 to effectively replace a portion of titanium dioxide without sacrificing important properties such as opacity, gloss, or tint strength.

Milled vs. Spray-Dried: Which should I choose?

KaMin’s dry products are available in two physical forms, spray-dried bead and milled powder. Since kaolin is inherently hydrophilic, spray-dried products are only dispersible in waterborne systems with high speed mixing. Milled products are readily dispersible in any system, waterborne or solvent borne. After full dispersion, each spray-dried product will perform identically to its milled counterpart. Talk to a KaMin representative to help you choose the right product for your formulation.

Particle Size(Stokes Equivalent)

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Particle Thickness

Ultrafine Hydrous Kaolin

Ultrafine Hydrous Kaolin

Polygloss® 90 and KaMin® HG90 are ultrafine, high brightness, hydrous kaolin products engineered to optimize your

pigment performance.

Effective spacing of TiO2

Gloss retention

Opacity retention

Block resistance

Binder extension

Benefits

The premium extenders for gloss and semi-gloss coatings

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Substituting TiO2 with kaolin by volume vs. weight

There is a significant specific gravity difference that must be kept in mind when formulating with ultrafine hydrous clay. In order to maintain gloss, Polygloss® 90 and KaMin® HG90 should be substituted for titanium dioxide at equivalent pigment volume concentration. To maintain equivalent volume, one part by weight of TiO2 should be replaced with about 0.65 parts by weight of Polygloss® 90 or KaMin® HG90.

Paint Study

Paint Study

Paints containing Polygloss® 90 or KaMin® HG90 along with reduced levels

of titanium dioxide compare very favorably to paints containing TiO2 alone.

Similarly, when testing other properties, such as stain resistance, block

resistance, reflectance, and viscosity, no significant variances were shown.

Control (No TiO2 Substitution)

KaMin® HG90 (10% TiO2 Substitution)

Polygloss® 90 (10% TiO2 Substitution)

If you’d like to learn more about this study and other paint and coatings studies using KaMin kaolin products, please go to: innovations.kaminllc.com/paint-study or scan the QR code below.

Contrast ratio

Tint strength Viscosity, KU

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Calcined

Fine water washed

KaMin® 70CKaMin 70C is a standard calcined clay used to build opacity in flat, eggshell, and satin paints. KaMin 70C will give better durability properties, including scrub resistance and stain resistance, than higher oil absorption calcined clays. KaMin 70C is well-suited to provide burnish resistance and excellent touchup.

Milled Powder 9161.3 54

KaMin® 2000CKaMin 2000C is a high-brightness calcined clay, and provides high levels of opacity in high-PVC paints and coatings. It is designed to give a good balance of properties, providing good opacity while maintaining scrub resistance.

Milled Powder 9360.6 65

Product Selection GuidePhysical Form Brightness

(TAPPI)pHAverage Stokes Equivalent

Particle Size (µm)Oil Absorption

g/100g

KaMin® 90/90BKaMin 90 is a standard brightness extender recommended for intermediate to high gloss coatings. Its particle size distribution is excellent for dense particle packing, allowing efficient use of resin and good barrier properties.

Milled Powder/Spray-Dried Bead 8870.4 43

KaMin® 80/80BKaMin 80 is an economical extender for satin and semi-gloss paints and coatings. It provides cost effective extension of titanium dioxide and resin.

Milled Powder/Spray-Dried Bead 8770.5 42

KaMin® 611KaMin 611 is an extender designed for systems where low pH or low soluble salt content is desirable. KaMin 611’s low pH and custom dispersant package make it more suitable for use in e-coat systems.

Spray-Dried Bead 8850.4 42

Coarse/delaminated water washed

KaMin® 35/35BKaMin 35 is the coarsest clay product offered by KaMin. The low oil absorption and low binder demand make KaMin 35 effective at extending low gloss paints and primers, as well as stains and other pigmented coatings. Its minimal impact on viscosity is useful in low-VOC coatings. The blocky, large particles provide micro-surface roughness, leading to improved inter-coat adhesion.

Milled Powder/Spray-Dried Bead 8374.0 27

Polyplate® P01/PPolyplate P01 is a standard particle size, delaminated clay suited for use in flat to semi-gloss coatings. It is a useful extender in primers as well as anywhere barrier properties are desired.

8870.8 42

Polyplate® HMTPolyplate HMT is a coarse, delaminated, spray-dried clay product suitable for use in flat and eggshell paints and coatings. The large, platy particles provide good physical coating properties, as well as some light scattering in systems with a low pigment loading level, such as stains.

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Ultrafine water washed

Polygloss® 90Polygloss 90 is the premier extender in satin, semi-gloss, and high gloss coatings. Its high brightness, platy morphology and tightly controlled, ultrafine particle size distribution provide the best titanium dioxide spacing without an impact on color, or a reduction in opacity or gloss. Polygloss 90’s unique processing allows it to be easily dispersed in any coating system, waterborne, solvent-borne, or 100% solids.

Milled Powder 9170.2 42

KaMin® HG90KaMin HG90 has many of the same advantages as Polygloss 90 once dispersed, including the excellent color and extension properties. It is supplied in a spray-dried form, which allows for more efficient shipping, lower dusting, and improved flowability and handling. KaMin HG90 may be dispersed in waterborne systems under high shear.

Spray-Dried Bead 9170.2 42

Milled Powder/Spray-Dried Bead

Spray-Dried Bead

Product Selection Guide

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ArchitecturalINTERIOR/EXTERIOR GLOSS/SEMI-GLOSS

INTERIOR/EXTERIOR PRIMERS

INTERIOR FL ATS

INTERIOR L ATEX SATIN

EXTERIOR L ATEX FL AT/SATIN

CLEAR COATINGS

SEMI-TRANSPARENT OIL STAINS

SOLID HIDE OIL STAINS

SOLID HIDE L ATEX STAINS

L ATEX BLOCK FILLERS

ARCHITECTURAL FLOOR PAINTS

BARN AND ROOF COATINGS

EL ASTOMERIC COATINGS

Powder Coatings

Industrial/OEMINDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE, GLOSS TOPCOATS

GENERAL INDUSTRIAL, GLOSS METAL FINISHES

INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE, PRIMERS

APPLIANCE COATINGS

COIL TOP COAT

AUTOMOTIVE BASE COAT/PRIMERS

AUTOMOTIVE TOP COAT

ELECTRO-COAT

CARRIAGE UNDERCOATING

TRANSPORTATION FINISHES, GLOSS

MARINE COATINGS, GLOSS

MARINE COATINGS, PRIMERS

GENERAL INDUSTRIAL, PRIMERS

WOOD BOARD COATING

HIGH SOLIDS - ANTI-SAG

UV CURE

Traffic Paints

Product Selection Guide

Recommended Suitable Delaminated/coarse water

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Fine water washed

Ultrafinewater washed

Calcined Clay

THIS BROCHURE WAS PRINTED ON HIGH QUALITY COATED PAPER THAT CONTAINS HYDRAGLOSS® 90, THE PREMIER COATING KAOLIN FOR HIGH QUALITY COATINGS.

KaMin®, Hydragloss®, Lithosperse®, Polygloss®, and Polyplate® are registered trademarks of KaMin LLC for kaolin clay.

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