The change in labour availability situations, arrival of too many foreign ceramic manufacturing companies in India, the growing pollution awareness among all classes of people, and the quality & price war among all the ceramic manufacturers places tremondous pressure on the ceramic manufacturers. It is highly imperative for them to change their methodology of operations […]

In India there is a steep rise in land prices and the land value is going up day by day to unimaginable levels. This has placed tremondous pressure on both Clay mine owners and Ceramic manufacturing industries. Unless there is good value addition for Clay, it is not viable for the clay mine […]

All the global changes happening recently has brought tremendous changes in Ceramic manufacturing in India. Due to exorbitant labour cost and pollution problems, most of the European manufacturers are shifting their Ceramic manufacturing plants to India. Moreover, there is a huge continuous growing market in India for Ceramic products like Tiles, Sanitaryware, Crockeries etc.
Since […]

Unfortunately, the concept of blending followed in other developed countries is not yet adopted by Clay Mine/Benefeciation plant owners in India. But now its high time for those in the Clay business to adopt these concepts.
As of today most of the Ceramic Industries in India buy Ball Clay of different varieties from different sources and […]

In India most of the mines are open cast type and the clay excavated after removing the over burden is directly sent to different end users.
In some parts of India the excavated clay is blunged with water, passed through sieves and the clay is stored in separate settling tanks. The clear water is removed and […]

In the WET PROCESS method, Clay from storage bins is shifted through a belt conveyor. During movement in the conveyor, unwanted materials are sorted out from the clay by manual inspection.
The clay from the conveyor is then shifted to high speed blungers connected with VFD motors. Here the clay is dispersed in water medium by […]

In the DRY PROCESS method, Clay from the stock yard is shifted through belt conveyors. During movement in the conveyors, unwanted impurities are removed manually by visual inspection. The Clay from the conveyor is loaded into disintegrators/pulverizers where the clay gets reduced into smaller size granules and the crushed material is shifted to silos where […]

Unlike China clay, Ball clay undergoes natural processing by natural agents like rivers, streams and wind. However during natural processing, Ball clay is contaminated with other impurities and hence separating the unwanted impurities from the Clay becomes one of the prime important techniques in the Processing of Ball clay.
Since the clay undergoes continuous changes (due […]

Different techniques are used for separating clay from its impurities. These can be classified into Mechanical and Chemical Separation techniques.Mechanical techniques are based on particle size and other physical properties. Chemical techniques are based on chemical composition.
These days even small scale industries use Classifiers like hydro cyclone equipments. In this process, in every step the […]

In India, most of the washing plants follow a very simple process of beneficiation: The mined clay boulders are first crushed into small lumps and mixed with water and sodium silicate in a high speed blunger. The blunged slurry is then passed through a series of sieve (filter) systems starting from coarse to fine […]