Sunrise® mica performence minerals

Applications: - cosmetics - plastics - coatings

Mica is world-renowned for its high-temperature, electrical, mechanical and optical properties. No other mineral has this combination of properties.
Geotech offers 3 types of mica:

Sunrise® mica 325 mesh
Sunrise® mica 970 mesh
Sunrise® mica SVA

Cosmetics

Due to it's natural sheen, Sunrise® mica is the perfect choice for cosmetics. Sunrise® mica offers high UV stability, low abrasiveness, excellent lubricity, good skin adhesion and good resistance to heat, weather and chemicals. Furthermore Sunrise® mica has the ability to block UV radiation. Sunrise® mica is more transparent than talc and creates buildable coverage without completely covering the skin. It gives balance and consistency to pressed powders and lipsticks.

Sunrise® SVA mica is an organic surface treated cosmetic grade mica that provides exceptionally smooth texture, soft feel and good skin adhesion.

Sunrise® mica compies to the cosmetic regulations.

Plastics

Sunrise® mica combined with plastic resins makes a plastic composite that compares favorably to widely used engineered plastics. The mica, as reinforcement fillers, can replace glass fibers and are used in various grades of nylon and polyester resins.

A polypropylene-mica composite has many advantages over metal such as corrosion resistance, low weight and easily molded complicated shapes. The mica reinforced polypropylene composites are meeting the growing demand of larger, thinner and stronger parts with reduced weight and better surface appearance. The requirement for high performance plastic together with enhancement surface treatments and additives play a major role in the increasing use of mica reinforced composites. The market affected by these compounds is automotive, contruction and appliances.

Coatings & inks

Sunrise® mica provides durability and helps coatings to resist cracking and checking. It promotes wet adhesion, provides UV resistance and reduces moisture vapor transmission (MVT). Sunrise mica used in coatings will ensure a higher brilliance without interfering with the optical properties of other pigments.

Sunrise® mica is a so called 'wet-ground' mica, produced from high purity flake mica concentrates by a slow, frictional delamination process. This process is designed to effectively delaminate the mica flakes preserving it's platy structure, providing products with optimized aspect ratio, sheen and slip.

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