Company Profile:
Shiraishi Calcium Indonesia is a manufacturing company.
Shiraishi Calcium Indonesia is a subsidiary of Shiraishi Kogyo Kaisha, Ltd., a prominent Japanese manufacturer of calcium carbonate. Located in Indonesia, the company specializes in the production of high quality calcium carbonate, including both precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) and ground calcium carbonate (GCC). These products serve as essential raw materials for a wide range of industries, such as paper, plastics, paints, coatings, rubber, adhesives, and sealants. The company focuses on providing advanced calcium carbonate solutions tailored to meet the specific requirements of its industrial customers, emphasizing product quality, consistency, and continuous technological innovation in its manufacturing processes. Its primary operations involve the processing and refinement of calcium raw materials into various grades of calcium carbonate.
Enterprise Products
Shiraishi Calcium Indonesia produces and sells calcium carbonate products. Their primary product is fine precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), offered in various grades and particle sizes tailored for diverse industrial applications.
Specific product categories include:
Calcium Carbonate for Plastics: Used as a filler and reinforcing agent in PVC, polypropylene, polyethylene, and other plastic resins to improve properties like stiffness, impact resistance, and surface finish, while also reducing costs.
Calcium Carbonate for Rubber: Incorporated into rubber compounds to enhance mechanical properties such as tensile strength, abrasion resistance, and tear strength, and to improve processability.
Calcium Carbonate for Paints and Coatings: Utilized as an extender pigment to improve opacity, brightness, scrub resistance, and rheology of paints and coatings, contributing to cost-effectiveness and performance.
Calcium Carbonate for Adhesives and Sealants: Added to improve rheology, reduce shrinkage, and enhance the mechanical properties of various adhesive and sealant formulations.
Calcium Carbonate for Paper: Used as a filler and coating pigment in the paper industry to improve brightness, opacity, printability, and smoothness of paper products.
Calcium Carbonate for Other Industries: Their calcium carbonate products are also used in industries such as pharmaceuticals, food (as a calcium supplement or anti-caking agent), cosmetics, and agriculture.
Shiraishi Calcium Indonesia also offers specialized grades with surface treatments to enhance compatibility with specific polymer matrices or improve dispersibility.