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In all ceramic applications (sanitaryware, tableware and rooftiles), mould properties and performance are key to achieving high quality finished items; Formula’s ceramic plasters are highly valued for their technical properties, which include controlled porosity, mechanical strength to ensure mould durability, dimensional accuracy and perfect reproduction of fine details, design flexibility and ease of use compared to other techniques.

Saint-Gobain Formula proposes a range of safe, environmentally-friendly products, for the professional building and distribution industry.

Formula plasters are used to achieve unique architectural renovation and interior design features, for building interiors, including renovation of historic buildings, and commercial interior design projects. Formula’s high quality products are used by museums, professional and hobby artists, in a variety of artistic modelling, casting and sculpting applications.

Saint-Gobain Formula is a specialist supplier of chamottes and plaster-based refractory products for industrial and artistic foundry applications. Formula’s high performance products are used to cast aluminium, copper, brass, enabling the production of complex and intricate components for the aeronautic, electronic, automobile and military industries.

Formula proposes full product ranges for dental, medical and cosmetic applications. The Pro-Dental range of dental plasters, stones and die-stones is used in manufacturing dental prosthetics. Pro-Esthétique thermal beauty masks are used in salon treatments, and Formula’s high quality plasters are used in industrial ‘plaster of Paris’ medical bandage manufacturing.

Formula’s high purity, natural gypsum formulations are safe, environmentally-friendly, cost-effective solutions for soil treatment in agricultural, horticultural, and leisure applications. Formula’s high quality products are also used in amending treated wastewater for agricultural and landscape irrigation, and in fish farming and the maintenance treatment of rivers, lakes and ponds.

Formula proposes a range of gypsum and plaster products for use in a variety of technical applications, each with specific requirements, including food, paper, mining applications.