3. White goods

White goods" cover the sanitaryware and tableware sectors. The pieces are made of porcelain, i.e. using a white clay, kaolin, in varying proportions in the raw materials.

In fact, while tableware porcelain always contains a majority of kaolin, the same cannot be said of sanitaryware ceramics, which are most often composed of vitréous (ceramics with a high vitreous phase content) or stoneware with added kaolin, so that the term "sanitaryware porcelain" can really be considered an abuse of language.

Another point in common between the two white goods sectors is the shaping process, which is carried out by casting, very generally for sanitaryware, and also for certain tableware items (cf. § 2.1.5 of [N4811] ).

The white goods sector is...