Talc — Magris Performance Materials

Magris Talc supplies over 50% of North America’s talc market.

Magris Talc is the leading fully integrated North American Talc producer with a 100+ year operating history. Our products are used globally by leading, blue-chip organizations, to enhance performance in a variety of industrial applications in key markets including polymers, paints & coatings, pharmaceutical, building products and more.

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Adhesives and Sealants

Magris talcs – excellent fillers for polyester putties and automotive body fillers

Agriculture

In agriculture, talc-based solutions can provide excellent natural alternatives to chemicals for protecting fruit from the sun’s rays and disease.

Talcs also make effective flow and anti-caking agents for fertilizers. They are ideal solutions for organic farming

Ceramics

Used in ceramic floor tiles and sanitaryware, talc improves the vitrification process, allowing producers to reduce firing temperatures and shorten firing cycles.

Construction

Talc is an excellent process aid for bitumen roofing products and excellent multi-functional fillers for self-leveling and self-smoothing floor mortars.

Paints and Coatings

Talc is an ideal pigment, filler and extender in house and industrial paints and primers, where it improves mechanical and optical properties and production processes. It brings a range of benefits to color concentrates, inks, enamels, varnishes, putties, body fillers, mortars and asphalts.

Paper and Board

Talc is used in the pulp, paper and board industry as a filler and to control pitch and stickies which clog machines impacting runnability. Talc is an effective coating agent in rotogravure and offset papers where it improves runnability and the quality of the finished paper. In certain specialty papers such as colored papers and labels, talc improves quality and productivity.

Polymers

Talc is an excellent reinforcing filler in polypropylene and engineering thermoplastics for automotive parts, domestic appliances and E&E components.

Putties & Liquid Compounds

Magris Talc offers a range of products which are high-purity, functional additives ideal for putties and liquid compounds. Magris Talc improves dimensional stability and reinforces putties and liquid compounds, giving added protection, against cracking and shrinking.

Rubber

Talc is an excellent reinforcing filler in polypropylene and engineering thermoplastics for automotive parts, domestic appliances and E&E components.

It is used for antiblocking in polyethylene; restores mechanical properties to recycled plastics; and is an ideal nucleating agent in biopolymers and semi-crystalline polymers.

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Magris Talc Highlights

Magris Talc is the leading talc producers in North America, with a 100+ year operating history.

Leading Supplier of Critical Inputs

We are the leading supplier of talc products in North America. Our products increase performance, reduce weight, control emissions and displace harmful chemicals in a variety of industries including automotive, building products, agriculture, pharmaceutical and more.

Continuous Innovation

We understand the complex demands of customers. Our research and development experts help develop solutions by designing new products, technologies and processes. We utilize a stage-gate development process to rapidly assess new ideas and bring the best ones to market as quickly as possible.

Health, Safety & Environmental

Safety is our most important value, and we believe that everyone should go home safe and healthy everyday. At Magris Talc, we utilize best in class safety management programs which help us to target continuous improvement in our safety performance and culture.

Magris Talc Leadership Team

Eric Colby

President & General Manager
Anthony Wilson

Director of Finance
Jeff Price

Global Sales Director

Operations Overview

Penhorwood, Ontario, Canada

• Macro crystalline talc orebody with unique morphological and chemical attributes
• Open pit, concentrator and milling operations
• In continuous operation for 40+ years
• Associated CN serviced rail loadout near Foleyet, ON
Timmins, Ontario, Canada

• Versatile Micronizing mill entirely supplied with concentrate from Penhorwood.
• Raw material feedstock supplied entirely from Penhorwood operation.
Houston Mill, Texas, USA

• Talc ores sourced from China, India, Montana, Australia and Europe.
• Wide spectrum of grinding technology for coarse-, medium- and fine-grind products.
• Compacted and powder grades packaged in bulk, bulk bags and paper sacks.
• Polymers, Pharmaceutical, Food and Coatings product lines.
• GFSI and cGMP for USP (U.S. Pharmacopeia) and FCC (Food & Chemical Codex) requirements .
Yellowstone Mine, Montana, USA

• High purity, micro-crystalline talc orebody with two patented friction sorting processes.
• Largest talc mine in North America; 80 years, 10 million tons shipped.
Three Forks Mill, Montana, USA

• Talc ores supplied from Yellowstone Mine and China. Chlorite ore from China.
• Wide spectrum of grinding technology for coarse-, medium- and fine-grind products.
• Compacted and powder grades packaged in bulk, bulk bags and paper sacks.
• Paints, Coatings, Rubber, Paper, Ceramics and Agricultural product lines.
• Surface-modified products for pharmaceutical rubber, gel coat and other specialty applications
Sappington Mill, Montana, USA

• Ore supplied by Yellowstone Mine
• Compacted and powder grades packaged in bulk and bulk bags.
• Paints, Coatings, Paper and Polymers product lines.
• Longest known micro-crystalline talc product used in high performance polymer applications
Ludlow, Vermont

• Ore supplied entirely from adjacent Argonaut mine.
• Platiest talc extracted economically North America.
• Broad portfolio of specialized products for Agriculture, Paints, Coatings and Polymer applications.
• Serviced by Vermont Railway.