Fillers for papermaking: A review of their properties, usage …
Talc is best known to papermakers as a detackifier, and it is widely used in efforts to combat the effects of pitch and sticky materials in papermaking processes (Valero and Holton 1995; Trivedi 1997). However, talc is also widely used as a filler, especially in Finland, Japan, China, and France, where high-quality deposits are located (Biza 1999).