Binder

A glaze or body additive designed to strengthen it during the dry stage or to make handling easier. The mechanism of a binder can be as simple as a glue that hardens and bonds particles together. Other binders, especially inorganics, have more complex mechanisms. Body binders can also make it possible to form powders that would not otherwise be plastic enough to hold a shape. Likewise, glaze binders make it possible to use slurries with very low clay contents yet still have a hard enough surface to withstand handling. Binders come at a cost, they slow down drying and often pose issues related to their decompositions during firing. In some industries, like tile, they are either not used or only selected ones are practical (e.g. sodium silicate).

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  Binders for Ceramic Bodies

  An overview of the major types of organic and inorganic binders used in various different ceramic in...

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• Nothing to install (access it using your web browser). It is always the latest version.
• Easy to import your existing data.
• As many side-by-side recipes as you want.
• Many ways to search and classify glaze and body recipes.
• Glaze and body recipes are robust, with units-of-measure, unlimited pictures with individual titles and descriptions.
• Add variations to a recipe; each with its own pictures, descriptions and name/code-number extensions.
• Recipes can link to typecodes, projects and firing schedules (all managed in their own areas).
• Standard reports and mix ticket reports with last-minute-totalling; variations report as if they are a complete recipe.
• Video tutorials, help system, contact form on every page, dedicated messaging and support ticket systems.
• It is an industrial-strength database system (unlimited capacity, fast, reliable, scalable).

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• Glaze recipe formats supported: HyperGlaze, GlazeGhem, GlazeMaster, Matrix, INSIGHT XML recipes (single and multiple), INSIGHT SQLite DB files.
• Assign a batch number to imports, and later search by batch.
• Assign multiple typecodes to imported glaze and body batches (to classify) and search on these later.
• Prepend character sequences to glaze recipe names during import.
• Import the pictures and pair them to their corresponding records automatically.
• One click to automatically export the database to an SQLite DB database file and download it (for use with desktop INSIGHT or just as a backup).
• Export and import individual glaze recipes as text or XML.