Our Specialty Vermiculite division is dedicated to making quality vermiculite products for a wide variety of customer needs and applications

Vermiculite is an ideal mineral that’s beneficial in many applications and products. It’s a hydrated magnesium aluminum sheet silicate mineral closely related to mica. When subjected to heat, vermiculite expands. The expanded particles are lightweight, and have thermal-resistant properties that make it ideal in these markets:

• Agriculture
• Automotive
• Construction
• Industrial
• Masonry
• Packaging
• Specialty coatings
• Swimming pools

Benefits of Vermiculite

Our vermiculite is produced in a variety of particle sizes and make an excellent product in many applications. Vermiculite dispersions are used in high temperature coatings or binders for construction materials, gaskets, weld curtains, specialty papers/textiles, oxidation resistant coatings on carbon composites, and as barrier coatings for films. Some of the benefits include:

• Compressible
• Highly absorbent; soaks up to 3x its volume in water
• High cation exchange capacity
• Fireproof
• Lightweight