Applications we support
Our solutions enable performance and help manufacturers meet demanding requirements across diverse applications:
Key benefits
- Enhance opacity with dispersion and rheology control properties
- Improve durability
- High-matting efficiency
- Improve mechanical properties
- Enable lightweighting
- Optimize cost-performance ratios
- Low carbon footprint solutions
Discover our full range of paint and coating solutions using the Omya product catalogue:
FAQ - Solutions for paints and coatings
Mineral fillers are natural or engineered materials added to coatings to improve properties such as opacity, durability, rheology, and cost-efficiency.
Calcium carbonate offers several benefits as a functional mineral and filler. It is a natural and renewable raw material that has a substantially lower carbon footprint than other fillers. Selecting the right Omya calcium carbonate filler can enhance opacity, improve bulk stability and control gloss or sheen. Our range of mineral fillers enables paint manufacturers to adjust formulation performance, reduce carbon footprint and manage costs
Common minerals include calcium carbonate, kaolin, mica, silicates, dolomite, and lightweight fillers like perlite and hollow glass microspheres.
Applications include architectural paints, industrial coatings, automotive finishes, powder coatings, and protective coatings.
They enhance opacity, brightness, mechanical strength, scratch resistance, and film durability while optimizing formulation costs.
Natural mineral solutions help reduce VOC content, improve material efficiency, and extend coating lifespan, contributing to more sustainable formulations.
Calcium carbonate is a naturally occurring mineral and is generally not subject to energy intensive processing steps, giving it a substantially lower carbon footprint than other fillers. Read more about the use of calcium carbonate to improve sustainability
Paint manufacturers can realize significant cost savings and sustainability improvements by adjusting the ratio of titanium dioxide to calcium carbonate in their paints. Whilst titanium dioxide is delivering key optical properties, calcium carbonate can be used as a partial replacement to enhance paint properties, manage formulation costs and reduce the related carbon footprint. Learn more about improving performance of your decorative paints with Omya’s range of fillers
Lightweight fillers will reduce the density of the final paint, leading to a higher coverage rate. This means that less material will be needed to cover the same area, or alternatively yield can be increased from the same amount of material, doing more with less.
Lightweight fillers as hollow glass microspheres Omyasphere, will reduce thermal conductivity and increase solar reflectance. Both will lessen heat build-up leading to energy savings for cooling.
Lightweight fillers reduce density, improve insulation properties, and enable easier application while maintaining performance.
The introduction of lightweight filler as a replacement for mineral fillers will enhance the overall elongation / flexibility based on the sphericity of the lighweight filler.
Omya provides global supply, technical expertise, and formulation support to help customers develop high-performance, compliant, and sustainable coating systems.
