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Hollow glass microspheres, also called bubbles, microbubbles, or micro balloons, provide the benefits of low density, high heat and chemical resistance.

These microscopic spheres of soda-lime/borosilicate glass are low-density particles that are used in a wide range of industries. The hollow microspheres are used to reduce warpage and shrinkage, to adjust the rheological properties, to reduce part weight, and to lower cost.

Hollow glass microspheres have been used as low-density fillers for various kinds of polymeric compounds. Hollow Glass Microspheres for the applications of paint & coating, construction & insulation coating. Due to its excellent advantages of lightweight, bulk density, lower thermal conductivity, higher compressive strength, improved dispersion and liquidity.

Our hollow glass microspheres are genuine and cost-effective alternative having similar specification which have a relative density in the range of 0.15 to 0.20g/cc.

Hollow glass microspheres are a ultra-lightweight, inorganic, non-metallic, hollow alternative to conventional fillers and additives. They find applications in many demanding industries such as paints, coatings, adhesives, sealants, cast polyester, compounding and many more. The low-density material is used to reduce weight, lower costs and enhance product properties.

The unique spherical shape of the hollow glass microspheres offer a number of important benefits, including higher filler loading, lower viscosity and reduced shrinkage. It further makes it more adaptable to a variety of production processes including spraying, casting and molding.

The chemically stable soda-lime-borosilicate glass composition provides excellent water resistance to create more stable emulsions. They are non-combustible and non-porous, so they do not absorb resin. The hollow glass microspheres also create stable voids, which result in low thermal conductivity and low dielectric constant.

Hollow glass microspheres are available in a variety of sizes and grades to help you meet your product and processing requirements.

How to Reduce Density of Rubber Vacuum Glass Bead Foaming Agent Special for Rubber Weight Reduction

Why rubber has high density;

The density of the rubber without filler is 0.9g/cm, but the rubber needs to add inorganic filler because of its strength, temperature resistance, shrinkage resistance, cost reduction and other characteristics. The filler density is generally 2.5-3.6, which will greatly increase the weight, leading to the rubber density exceeding the standard.

Inorganic filler powder

Methods for reducing the density of rubber;

The vacuum glass beads are added to the rubber. The density of the vacuum glass beads is 0.23-0.28g/cm, 3-5 times lighter than the rubber. The compressive strength is 35-42MPA. It has high strength and does not crush. It can be filled into rubber and other materials to effectively reduce the weight to meet the density standard.

Vacuum glass beads are often used to replace foaming agents in rubber soles. Because of their high strength, strong weather resistance, high hardness, and strong aging resistance, vacuum glass beads will not collapse for a long time after they are made into soles, delaying their service life.

Real shot of vacuum glass bead

Why vacuum glass beads can reduce weight;

Vacuum glass bead is a kind of bubble type ultra-fine inorganic powder. The microscopic view is closed spherical hollow particles. The glass bead is filled into the resin, plastic and rubber to achieve foaming effect and effectively reduce the product density.

Vacuum glass bead morphology;

Vacuum glass bead is a kind of low density inorganic white solid powder, which is made by chemical method. It presents spherical vacuum powder under a microscope. The density of conventional products is generally 0.15-0.8g/cm, and it is often used for thermal insulation coatings, plastic foaming, rubber weight reduction, etc.

Plastic anti warping glass beads;

The vacuum glass bead can prevent warping, reduce shrinkage, resist high temperature, fire and other characteristics after being added into the plastic. The recommended usage is 7-20%, which is adjusted according to the product characteristics.

Vacuum glass beads are widely used;

It can be used for reflective coatings, silica gel pads, silica gel products, resins, thermal insulation coatings, thermal insulation coatings, thermal insulation layers, thermal insulation paints, thermal insulation intermediate coatings, rubber soles, rubber pads, yoga mats, reflective coatings, thermal insulation coatings, printing coatings, plastic products, plastic plates, wood plastics, man-made boards and other products with wide applications and strong chemical stability.

FAQ;

Q: The role of plastic filled hollow glass beads;

Answer: Hollow glass beads have the effects of low density, insulation, light weight and heat insulation. Adding them to plastics can reduce the weight. Increase liquidity.

Q: The effect of insulating glass beads used in thermal insulation coatings;

Answer: After insulating glass beads are added to the thermal insulation coating, the thermal insulation effect of the coating can be greatly enhanced.

Q: What is added to rubber to reduce density;

Answer: The use of vacuum glass beads can effectively reduce the density, increase the volume and enhance the overall performance of rubber.

Q: What is the thermal conductivity of the vacuum glass bead;

Answer: The special thermal conductivity of nano water-based thermal insulation coating is 0.03, which effectively reduces the performance of 15-25 ℃.

The Global Hollow Glass Microspheres market is anticipated to rise at a considerable rate during the forecast period, between 2022 and 2028. In 2021, the market is growing at a steady rate and with the rising adoption of strategies by key players, the market is expected to rise over the projected horizon.

Hollow glass microspheres are a new type of material developed widely in recent years with excellent performance. The main components of the product are borosilicates, hollow spheres with a particle size of 10-250 μm and a wall thickness of 1-2 μm. This product has the advantages of light weight, low thermal conductivity, high strength and good chemical stability. After special treatment, it has the properties of lipophilic and hydrophobic, and it is very easy to disperse in organic materials such as resins. Hollow glass microspheres are widely used in glass fiber reinforced plastics, artificial marble, artificial agate, and other composite materials, and have obvious weight-reducing effect and sound insulation effect, so that the products have good crack resistance and reworkability. Widely used in aviation, aerospace, new high-speed trains, luxury yachts, thermal insulation coatings, bowling, and other areas, and played a unique good role.

First of all, the increasing demand for hollow glass microspheres drives the market size structural properties such as recyclability, reusability increase demand for efficiency, and modernization of infrastructure. Second, North America dominates the global hollow glass microspheres market, and is experiencing high growth owing to the increased demand for efficiency in many end-user industries. Product innovation in terms of quality and application development is another driving factor for the growth of hollow glass microspheres market in North America. The U.S. and Canada are expected to lead the hollow glass microspheres market in the North American region, the U.S. Asia Pacific is growing at a significant rate as these materials have started gaining prominence in this region. The growth in this region can be attributed to increased consumption of hollow glass microspheres in China.

The Global Hollow Glass Microspheres Market Size was estimated at USD 209.43 million in 2021 and is projected to reach USD 349.72 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 7.60% during the forecast period.

Sinosteel Maanshan Mining Research Institute Co., Ltd. updated the review status of listing application on December 19, and the company’s IPO application has been accepted.

Tongbi Finance and Economics learned that the company’s predecessor, “Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgical Mines of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry”, was founded in 1963 and was a key scientific research institute directly under the former Ministry of Metallurgical Industry. The company has long been engaged in professional services for comprehensive utilization of mineral resources, providing customers with technical services and technical engineering services in mining, mineral processing, rock and soil, mine safety and environmental protection, etc; At the same time, the company pays attention to the technical research and development of new materials such as hollow glass beads, new mining curing materials, carbon aerogel, spherical weighting materials, and realizes the industrial mass production of hollow glass beads.

The State Council and various ministries and commissions have successively issued a series of policies, including the “cornerstone plan”, committed to ensuring the supply security of national strategic mineral resources. With the support of the above national strategies and industrial policies, the industry of comprehensive utilization of mineral resources has broad development space. With the progress of product technology and application technology, hollow glass beads are more widely used in more downstream industries, and the application field will be further expanded in the future. For example, in the field of new energy vehicles, hollow glass beads are used as filling materials to reduce the density and weight of adhesives and interior and exterior trims, achieve lightweight vehicles, improve the physical and chemical properties of adhesives and interior and exterior trims, and improve production efficiency. With the increasing demand of new energy vehicles for lightweight and improving production efficiency, hollow glass bead products are expected to be more widely used in the future. In addition, with the continuous emergence of emerging industries and the continuous development of traditional industries, hollow glass bead products will expand more application fields.

In recent years, the development and utilization intensity of China’s mineral resources has rapidly improved, mining and dressing technology and equipment have made continuous progress, and the comprehensive utilization level has greatly improved. In addition, at present, entrepreneurs all over the country are very optimistic about the development prospects of the sand and gravel industry and the business opportunities for the development and utilization of mineral resources, and have invested in the construction of large and medium-sized sand and gravel production bases. At the same time, major state-owned enterprises and domestic large cement enterprise groups have begun to set foot in and layout the sand and gravel aggregate industry according to the industry development trend. Their involvement has injected new development impetus into the development of the sand and gravel industry and become a new force to promote the high-quality and high-level development of the sand and gravel industry.

Polymer is a very broad term that encompassed a large amount of materials. The world “polymer” refers to materials that are composed of repeating identical molecules.

The type of molecule, the length of the chain, the amount of cross-linking, the presence of various chemical groups – all affect the behavior as well as chemical and physical properties of the material.

Many different polymers can be used as raw materials for hollow glass microspheres. The most common polymer microspheres are made from polyethylene, polystyrene, and poly(methyl methacrylate).

The goal of the study was to find a cost-effective composition of a particle reinforced composite that is light in weight but has sufficient mechanical properties. The matrix of the particulate composite is unsaturated polyester resin that is reinforced with alumina trihydrate particles. Part of the alumina trihydrate proportion was replaced with hollow glass microspheres to reduce weight and save costs.

In order to find out the influence of the light filler on the physical and mechanical properties of composites, materials with different percentages of the light filler were prepared. Test specimens were cut from moulded sheets that were fabricated with vacuum assisted extruder. Tensile strength, indentation hardness measured with a Barcol impressor, and density were determined. Based on the experimental data a multi-criteria optimization problem was formulated and solved to find the optimal design of the material. Artificial neural networks and a hybrid genetic algorithm were used.

The optimal solution is given as a Pareto curve to represent the distinction between the density and selected mechanical properties of the composite material. The composite material filled with 6% hollow glass microspheres showed 3% loss in the tensile strength and 26% loss in the surface hardness compared to the composition without the filler. The weight decreased by 13% compared with the initial composition. The addition of hollow glass microspheres did not lower the net value of the material, it increased 7%.

China Securities Online News (Wang Luo) The IPO of Science and Technology Innovation Board of China Steel Mining Institute was accepted by Shanghai Stock Exchange a few days ago. The company plans to publicly issue no more than 101372242 shares this time, raising 554 million yuan to invest in national R&D platform R&D capability improvement and mineral resources green and efficient new technology R&D projects, 7000 ton/year high-performance hollow glass beads construction projects, 300 ton/year carbon aerogel new material construction projects, 10000 ton/year spherical weighting material projects and supplementary working capital. Recommendation of CITIC Securities.

According to the public information, the predecessor of Sinosteel Mining Institute, the “Institute of Ferrometallurgical Mines of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry”, was founded in 1963 and was a key scientific research institute directly under the former Ministry of Metallurgical Industry. The company has long been engaged in professional services for comprehensive utilization of mineral resources, providing customers with technical services and technical engineering services in mining, mineral processing, rock and soil, mine safety and environmental protection, etc. From 2019 to January June 2022, the Company realized operating revenue of 509 million yuan, 566 million yuan, 737 million yuan and 397 million yuan respectively, and realized parent net profit of 58.2824 million yuan, 81.9592 million yuan, 120 million yuan and 74.6404 million yuan respectively in the same period.

The total investment budget of the national R&D platform R&D capability improvement and the mineral resources green and efficient new technology R&D project is 150164400 yuan. The project construction period starts from November 2020. At present, the upgrading and transformation of the two national R&D platforms “National Metal Mine Solid Waste Treatment and Treatment Engineering Technology Research Center” and “National Key Experiment on Metal Mine Safety and Health” are in progress; The construction of “Safety Emergency Industry Research and Training Center”, “Ecological Restoration and Solid Waste Comprehensive Utilization Test and Demonstration Base” has been basically completed; In the future, it is planned to carry out technology research and development in seven research directions, and the R&D achievements will be accepted and transformed in September 2025.

The total investment of the 7000 t/a high-performance hollow glass bead construction project is 140422200 yuan. The hollow glass bead business is one of the company’s main businesses. The implementation of the 7000 t/a high-performance hollow glass bead construction project is to expand the production capacity through new production lines, improve the scale of production and sales business, and promote the development of new material business under the background of the expansion of downstream market demand. The construction period of the project starts from September 2021. At present, the construction of the project plant has been basically completed, the production and commissioning are under way, and the subsequent completion acceptance will be carried out.

The total investment of the 300 t/a carbon aerogel new material construction project is proposed to be 70.3033 million yuan. Carbon aerogel products belong to the company’s new material business, which is the expansion of the company’s existing new material business. This project is the industrial application of the company’s core technology “carbon aerogel industrial preparation technology”. The construction period of the project starts from September 2021. At present, the construction of the project plant has been basically completed, the production and commissioning are under way, and the subsequent completion acceptance will be carried out.

The 10000 t/a spherical weighting material project is planned to have a total investment of 89.2298 million yuan, mainly to build a 10000 t/a spherical weighting material production line, and the main body of implementation is the new materials of the mining institute. The planned construction period of this project is 24 months. At present, the project has not been started.

In the future, the company said that in the field of comprehensive utilization of mineral resources, it will always take the task of overcoming the frontier, common and key core technical problems in the field of national mineral resources, and will always face the scientific and technological frontier of safe, green, efficient development and comprehensive utilization of national low-grade ore, co associated ore, refractory ore, tailings and other mineral resources to provide customers with mining, mineral processing, rock and soil Technical services and technical engineering services in mine safety and environmental protection. In the field of new materials, we will continue to promote the technology research and development and industrial application of the company’s new material business, continue to promote the company’s hollow glass bead products to be more widely used in more downstream industries, and strive to achieve the industrial mass production of new material products such as new mining curing materials, carbon aerogel, spherical weighting materials as soon as possible.

This study deals with the hydrostatic strength of hollow glass microspheres composites, commonly known as syntactic foams, using model materials made of 0.15 g/cm³ hollow glass microspheres with 3 types of matrix, two epoxies and one paraffin.

More than 100 model material samples are characterized for that work. The hydrostatic strength of these composite materials is determined in a pressure vessel, which can go up to 100 MPa. Two major parameters are studied: stiffness of the matrix and hollow glass microsphere volume content within the composite material.

The results clearly show that the hydrostatic strength of the syntactic foam can be improved by an increase in matrix stiffness or a reduction in hollow glass microspheres content. Based on experimental data an empirical model with two parameters is proposed to describe the hydrostatic strength of syntactic foam. The relevance of the model is discussed.

Hollow glass microspheres offer numerous functional advantages for biopharmaceuticals. These tiny spherical particles can be derived from a growing range of organic and inorganic materials, making them an extremely versatile solution for novel drug delivery systems.

Further research and development (R&D) into new compositions continues to create new opportunities for microsphere technology deployment.

Researchers have generated porous or hollow glass microspheres to enhance their drug-carrying capacity. Such hollow glass microspheres have been used to protect fragile drug compounds in vivo and to extend their bioavailability. There have also been many strides forward with biodegradable polymer hollow glass microspheres for controlled drug delivery.

The growing availability of highly tunable hollow glass microspheres has significant ramifications for treating numerous conditions, including embolisation therapy, lipoatrophy in AIDS patients, stress urinary incontinence (SUI) treatment), and so on. Microsphere technology is also of growing importance in precision medicine and targeted therapies for cancer and cardiovascular disease. The future of microsphere technology is bright.