ITACA - Fritas, Esmaltes y Colores cerámicos. Aditivos Decoración y piezas complementarias

Atomised materials with agglomerated sizes inferior to 500, 300, 200, 125 and 90 microns are very useful in decorations applied in dry processes over glazed surfaces. They are also highly useful in double pressing techniques.

Structured materials include a variety of products. Included are platelets, agglomerates, etc. They are irregular and come in wide range of sizes useful in double charge pressing methods.

Color stains in the CE series have been specially formulated for the colouration of glazes used in the production of ceramic tile and satisfying the following criteria: ease of use, constancy and homogeneity, minimum reaction with the glaze, intense colouration, wide cromatic range and low cost.

The CP series for body stains is specially designed for the use in the manufacturing of porcelain stoneware, standing out due to its high performance, homogeneity and compatibility in this type of compositions, not altering at all the body firing ranges.

Dry colour mixing was developed in response to the need of porcelain tile manufacturers. This technique enables spray-dried powder to be colored just prior to pressing, thereby increasing the flexibility of the process and fully customizing the shades of the coloured powder chart.

This products family is especially suited to all types of roll printed decorations. These materials have been developed to maintain colour suspensions even under conditions of very low viscosity and for high production rates requiring high printing speeds.

Aseries of more traditional vehicles for the preparation of inks with higher viscosity’s, to be used with both flat and rotary silk-screens made from either nylon or polyester cloth. There is a series classified as “Auto-fixing” requiring no preliminary treatment with laminated material fixers before their use.

Fixers are substances with the function of preparing the raw glaze layer for decoration by means of a thin film of material applied as a wet mist. These materials facilitate silk-screening and prevent sticking and displacement of the decorative layer by the silk-screen itself.

Granito fixers are organic binders that allow a correct fixing of particles, making possible a wide range of application weights and lack of organic residues after firing.

Neutral and coloured silk-screen inks for third-fire applications are formulated materials especially suited to short, low temperature firing cycles (As low as 800 degrees centigrade, and as short as 30 minutes).