business that goes back centuries in the gifu city of toki, known as the center of mino-yaki, the traditional pottery technique. as takasago president and ceo tatsuya suzuki explains, the firm got started years ago making large-scale tunnel kilns. the kilns were not very popular with original mino-yaki ceramic...
tiles, cookware and tableware are made possible by zinc oxide. zno is also used in paints as a pigment and improves the lightfastness and hardness of the coating. it also imparts corrosion protection properties to the paint, acts as an anti-fouling agent and also has good anti-microbial properties....