Ball Clay
High-Plasticity Clay Engineered for Precision Ceramics
India's largest ball clay supplier. Premium high-plasticity ball clay for tiles, sanitaryware, tableware. 50+ custom varieties, global export to 25+ countries.
What is Ball Clay?
Ball clay is a highly plastic, fine-grained natural clay primarily composed of a complex mix of kaolinite, illite, montmorillonite, and other layered silicate minerals. It often contains quartz, feldspathic material, and varying levels of organic matter, which together give it excellent formability, strength, and fired performance.
Ball clay is essential to ceramic body formulations due to its ability to enhance plasticity for shaping, improve green and dry strength, contribute to dimensional accuracy during firing, and balance shrinkage and vitrification.
- Enhance plasticity for shaping
- Improve green and dry strength
- Contribute to dimensional accuracy during firing
- Balance shrinkage and vitrification
Technical profile
- Plasticity index: 15-25 (optimized for shaping)
- Particle size distribution: Fine to ultra-fine
- Fired shrinkage: 6-8% (controlled)
- Alumina content: 20-25%
- Silica content: 50-60%
- Iron oxide: <2% (whiteness)