About Hanaakia
International Trading
Hanaakia, an independent international company operating in trading, wholesale and supply of natural mines in European level, with a special focus on the Turkish, German and Italian market. Hanaakia started its activity in 2016 in the field of supplying high- demand commodities and has happily managed to gain a good reputation in the minds of buyers. Over the years, The Company has experienced continuous growth, acquiring a significant number of commercial transactions around the world.
Today we are very proud to be able to supply considerable amount of Talc to meet the needs of various Industries, major manufacturers and our dear customers around the world.
Hanaakia can leverage both on the well-known experience and the competitive position and its business activities are focused on trading and supply of talc minerals and powder in all major European markets.
Our team has a deep knowledge of structured products and services. Being an independent company gives us the freedom to move with flexibility, ensuring a 24٫7 support system to our counterparties, with the objective of providing only the best of solutions.
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Talc is a common mineral on earth in eruptive and metamorphic rocks, a magnesium silicate whose main properties are immutability, lamellarity and softness. It is white in color with various shades ranging from snowy white to ivory white, from greenish white to gray or brownish. In nature, talc rocks can be characterized by different mineralogical associations that make the individual varieties extracted quite different from each other; for this reason, for industrial uses often speaks of ‘talcs’.
Talc is used in various industrial fields as an anti-sticking agent, being hydrophobic, lipophilic and resistant to acids and bases.
Rubber industry
uses talc to improve abrasion and traction resistance.
Ceramic Industry
Talc is used as a flux. It lowers the melting point of glazes, improving their vitrification properties. If mixed with other materials like feldspar and clay, talc is used as a refractory material as it resist to thermal shocks.
Pharmaceutical grade Talc
Consequently, when applied to the outer surface of capsules and tablets, it provides necessary lubrication and benefits the swallowing process.
Additionally, it prevents stickiness to the mold and among the tablets or capsules themselves. In appropriate concentration, Talc Powder acts as glidant by covering surface irregularities of other substances and reducing the inter-particular friction. The resulting improvement in powder flow is important for tablet compression.
Talc is hydrophobic in nature. Hence, it functions as an anticaking agent by coating other substances and making them water-repellent. Tablets are also coated with hydrophobic Talc to enable optimization of dissolution and desorption rate inside the human body.
In Paper Industry
Talc presence in the pulp reduces tackiness arising from stickies like plant resins. Subsequently, it provides pitch control by preventing agglomeration on production machinery.
Besides detackification capability, Talc is also lamellar (platy and layered) in structure. Hence, it even spread across the surface and reduces spots, defects and holes in the final output of paper.
Talc enhances printability of the finished paper by improving important characteristics such as scuff resistance, ink gloss and optimum ink transfer. Additionally, print mottling is reduced by the used of Talc in. Using micronized Talc contributes to a smoother finish, which improves quality of printed images. Opacity of Talc enhances opacity of the resulting paper. Whiteness of Talc improves whiteness of the resulting paper. Firstly, this boosts the color of printed matter. Secondly, the color of paper (specially craft paper) itself is optimized.
in Plastics Industry
The fine particles of Talc efficiently fill up inter-particular spaces within polymer compounds. This, in turn, increases the stiffness and impact strength of plastics and polymers. Talc has better thermal conductivity in comparison to polymer. This means that heat transmission through the mixture is quicker because of the presence of Talc. As a result, both the processing and cooling of plastic compounds is accelerated because of Talc, leading to faster production rates.
Polymers filled with fine and lamellar (platy & layered) Talc can withstand more strain without deformation as compared to unfilled polymers. Additionally, Talc also achieves the highest creep resistance against any other mineral filler.
Talc's lamellar structure, combined with its fineness, fills up smallest of pores in plastics. Consequently, this prevents water vapor or oxygen transmission through the resulting plastics.
This property is crucial for food and pharmaceuticals packaging industry. Due to its hydrophobicity (water-repellent nature) and chemical inertness, Talc contributes chemical resistance to plastics and polymers.
