RABCO Products: Ceramic Glazes and Sized Color Specs

Our sized color specks offer another design tool to enhance the "flat" look of many ceramic coatings. These materials can introduce complimentary or contrasting colors to the major background color. Indeed, our STAINSPEX colors can actually tint the glaze and provide the visual interest of specks of the same color.

Transparent specks added to flat matte or engobe coatings, pick up and magnify the color of the coating, providing a pleasing contrast of shiny spots of the same color as the non-reflective background.

Combining various colors and sizes can result in the currently popular granite look. Using one color in a disc-applied granite glaze can shift the overall effect in that color direction without a separate glaze application.

Color specks can also be used to add the third dimension of height or depth to your coatings in a controlled manner. Talk with us about "pebbles" and "dents". And, combining a soft glaze in sized color speck form with a harder glaze coating can produce interesting glaze effects especially on vertical surfaces.

RABCO sized color specks can be used to simulate iron spots in brick and quarry tile surfaces and can be used to produce the popular "Enamelware" coating on whiteware bodies. And, we are working with several "reactive" specks which can produce unusual effects depending on the coating composition.

Perhaps you have some other idea on how sized color specks can be used in your products. If so, don't hesitate to contact us. We would be pleased to work with you and supply you with samples of any of the above materials for evaluation in your plant