Description
Ball Clay is a highly plastic, fine kaolinitic clay that gives green strength and workability to a ceramic body before firing, the property that lets a shaped piece hold together through handling and drying without cracking.
What it is
The ground, ready-to-use powder form of Ball Clay. It is graded by plasticity, plastic, semi-plastic, and low plastic, depending on how much workability the body actually needs.
Key applications
- Ceramics and sanitaryware, where it provides plasticity and green strength
- A raw material component in cement
Why it matters
Paired with China Clay in a tile formulation, Ball Clay is usually the plasticity partner, not the whiteness source. The two are frequently sourced together for exactly that reason.
Related products
Need the unground, raw material instead? See Ball Clay (Lumps), supplied earlier in the processing chain for buyers who grind to their own specification.
Often sourced alongside China Clay (Kaolin), Washed China Clay, and China Clay Crude Lumps.
