About Thiele Kaolin Company

Thiele Kaolin Company, founded in 1946 and headquartered in Sandersville, Georgia, USA, is a privately held producer of processed kaolin and functional mineral pigments. With mining and processing operations in North America, Thiele supplies high-quality kaolin clays tailored for coatings, paper, packaging, and construction applications, emphasizing brightness, rheology control, and performance optimization. For the coatings industry, Thiele Kaolin Company provides calcined, delaminated, and hydrous kaolin clays. These act as TiO₂ extenders and functional fillers, improving opacity, gloss, scrub resistance, rheology, brightness, and film properties in architectural, industrial, and waterborne coatings.

SK-T 13

Water washed, delaminated, high brightness, engineered kaolin clay. Acts as a functional filler, TiO<sub>2</sub> extender and an excellent rheology modifier. Have high aspect ratio, high surface area and a platy structure. Helps reduce cracking upon drying. Improves the opacity of the paint system and enamel hold out. Highly recommended for water-based high gloss paints and coatings.

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SK-T 22

Hydrous, medium particle size kaolin clay. Acts as an excellent functional filler and rheology modifier. Exhibits high surface area, neutral pH and low oil absorption for higher filler loading. It has exceptional brightness and provides optimum spacing of pigment particles of titanium oxide. Improves substrate adhesion and provides opacity, good gloss, brightness and whiteness. Provides improved surface appearance upon drying. Designed for water-based paints, coatings and inks. Can be used alone or with other kaolin products and organic pigments in semi-gloss coatings.

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SK-T 15

Water washed, ultra-fine particle size, high brightness kaolin clay. Acts as an excellent functional filler and rheology modifier. Exhibits excellent brightness and provides good tint strength, gloss- and enamel hold out properties. Has high surface area and low oil absorption for higher pigment loading. Helps reduce TiO<sub>2</sub> content and is cost-effective. Provides improved dry and wet opacity. Allows for good pigment coverage and void filling. It has inherent color characteristics which allow for lower loadings of colored pigments in color matching applications. Ideal for use in water-based paints, coatings and inks.

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