Industries are increasingly calling for materials with improved properties. This is particularly evident in materials with high aspect ratios such as kaolin and wollastonites. Manufacturers of fine paper finishes want to retain the "platelet nature" of kaolin for high gloss and high value. Wollastonite's "needle-like" structures are important reinforcing agents in many products. Conventional grinding processes tend to destroy these materials across their weak axes.

As well as improving the performance of existing end products such as paper and polymers, these high value delaminated products will continue to find new applications in the future, leading to a high growth in demand for rheology controlled products.