Imerys opens new R&D laboratory

On 16 November 2011, Imerys Ceramics unveiled Imerys Ceramics Technologies UK, a 400 sq.m research and development laboratory based at its main UK ball clay production site at Teigngrace in Devon. Equipped with a quality control laboratory and a brand new ceramics technologies laboratory dedicated to innovation in ceramic applications, the centre will boost the company’s skills and enable it to support its customers and develop new products suited to the specific needs of tableware, sanitaryware, tiles and advanced ceramic producers.

Imerys takes its social and environmental responsibilities very seriously, and the new laboratory fits well with that ethos, meeting modern environmental requirements and reducing its carbon footprint. Imerys Ceramics is a world leading supplier of industrial mineral solutions with a comprehensive offering for the ceramic industry consisting of raw materials, prepared bodies, glazes and engobes.