Kaolin Clay For Paper

A leading producer of Georgia kaolin products for the paper industry, KaMin LLC is the only producer in Georgia to operate plants in each of the three distinctly different crude regions of the state. This provides access to coarse platy feedstocks as well as the finest high brightness crudes.

But our expertise is not in what is found in the ground but rather in our innovative spirit that has pioneered new techniques for processing and has consistently delivered new concepts to the industry on how to use kaolin products in paper.

Production of fine glossing, high brightness clays, namely Hydragloss® 90 kaolin continue to see steady growth driven by increased usage of calcium carbonate in coating formulations and the demand placed on runnability from new high speed paper machines.

In order to develop the right products and solutions, KaMin LLC draws on decades of experience and an innovative spirit. Our engineers, scientists and mining and exploration experts ensure our kaolin products match up well with the other components in the coating formulation.

As the use of carbonate-containing coatings increased, KaMin embraced this conversion and responded by making sure that our products could be used readily and would complement this conversion delivering the gloss and printability that was needed. We termed this process The Coating Architecture(SM) Approach and this is still the approach we use today. Thus, KaMin LLC was at the forefront of solving print problems using these new coatings. Since then, we‘ve applied this approach to helping our customers achieve the highest quality at the lowest cost.

KaMin LLC also operates a high speed laboratory coater (CLC). In the 1990’s, KaMin LLC (then known as Huber) was one of three companies and the only kaolin producer to invest in Centre International De Couchage Inc. (CIC), the state-of-the-art pilot coating facility in Quebec, Canada. Nearly 10 years later we continue to leverage these assets to develop solutions for our customers, especially those that involve improving the printed image.