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Sinosteel Maanshan Institute of Mining Research Co., Ltd., established in 1963 and directly subordinate to the former Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, is a large comprehensive research and development institution in China’s metallurgical mine field. We are one of the units approved early by the Academic Degree Awarding Committee of the State Council to have independent right to award the master academic degree and one of the units approved by the State Economic and Foreign Trade Ministry to have the right to import and export products. Our firm developed into a scientific and technological enterprise in 1999 and now belongs to China Sinosteel Group.

Sinosteel Maanshan Institute of Mining Research Co., Ltd. is a National Torch Program High-tech Enterprise. Our firm has outstandingly completed a series of major national scientific and technological projects, including “the Sixth Five-Year Plan” and “the Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, and published over 2,500 academic papers at home and abroad. Our firm has more than 1,700 sets of all kinds of equipment and facilities and over 50 supporting pilot plants. Sinosteel Maanshan Institute of Mining Research Co., Ltd. cooperates with Chinese Academy of Sciences to develop an industrialized technique to produce high-performance hollow glass microspheres, filling a gap at home.

Sinosteel Maanshan Institute of Mining Research Co., Ltd. is located in Maanshan — known as the National Civilized City, the National Sanitary City and the National Garden City. Maanshan is described as “a Branch of Flower along the Yangtze River”. The hollow glass microsphere company (subsidiary of Sinosteel Maanshan Institute of Mining Research Co., Ltd.,) covers an area of 20,000m2, with several large-scale standard plants totally up to 10,000m2 and integrated modern office buildings of 7,000m2. Our company has obtained ISO9001:2000 quality management system certificate. In the fierce market competition, our company holds the business spirit of “quality, honesty, good service” and relies on advanced technology and strong strength to provide customers with better products and services.

Summary:

K37 glass bubbles have a density of 0.37 g/cc and an isostatic crush strength of 3000 psi.

Properties:

Lower viscosity, improved flow

Increased filler loading, reduced cost

VOC reduction

Chemical stability and inertness

Reduced dielectric constant

Thermal conductivity reduction

Temperature resistance

Applications:

Mining

Paints and coatings

Rubber and plastic

Compounding

Transportation

From:3M

Hollow glass microspheres (sometimes termed microballoons, or glass bubbles) have been used as low-density fillers for various kinds of polymeric compounds since the mid-1960s. They are gas-filled, spherical, borosilicate particles with diameters typically between 10 and 100 microns. The spheres are manufactured on an enormous scale by several companies worldwide and, despite their structure, they can have extremely high compressive strength. They are routinely used as fillers in concretes, syntactic foams and other structural components, particularly in the marine and aerospace sectors. The profile of weight saving materials has increased dramatically in recent years due to both rising oil prices and environmental awareness.

Someone has taken low density fillers to the next stage of development. By adding less than 100 nanometers of materials, such as metals and metal oxides to the surface of the hollow glass particles, hybrid materials can be generated which retain the functionality of the coating material itself, but with the benefits of significantly reduced density, better handling/recovery properties and improved particle/matrix interfacial strength. Using its expertise in particle coating, They has developed low density fillers coated with, amongst other materials, titanium dioxide and metallic silver. The aqueous-based processes used to make these materials readily lend themselves to large scale production.

The range of applications in which coated microspheres and microparticles can be used to enhance current composites, or provide new solutions, is extremely diverse and the size, density, surface chemistry and functionality required by end users tend to be application specific. There is significant scope, therefore, for the development of a wide range of new materials to meet these diverse market opportunities.

From: microspheretechnology

Hollow glass microspheres can be used as a continuous medium in low-density cement slurries. With addition of hollow glass microspheres, The slurry is incompressible and all wells are uniform in density. Used in drilling fluid, Sludge cakes formed have good lubrication, reducing the risk of sticking. Hollow glass microspheres have an irreplaceable advantage for it cannot affect the system signal. Hollow glass microspheres have a good rolling performance, and can increase the drilling rate, and significantly improve the drilling efficiency. Cementing with hollow glass microspheres has feature of high temperature resistance, high pressure resistance, stability, durability, and can be recycled. With the increase of pressure layer, low-density slurry cementing with hollow glass microspheres were adopted to consolidate the wells to prevent or reduce leakage, increase the cement top. It will improve single well production, and can be used effectively to obtain underground oil and gas and high temperature geothermal resources.

Hollow Glass Microspheres can be used in paint, rubber, plastics, FRP, artificial stone, putty and other products as filler and weight-reducing agent. It can also be the excellent sensitizer for emulsion explosives; Because of its high compressive properties, it can be used to produce high-strength low-density cement slurry and low density drilling fluid in oil and gas extraction industry.

S38HS glass bubbles have a density of 0.38 g/cc and an isostatic crush strength of 5500 psi. The S Series glass bubbles have smaller particle sizes than the K Series. The S38HS has a higher crush strength than the S38 glass bubble.

Properties

Low thermal conductivity
Virtually insoluble in water or oil
Increased Production Throughput
Lightweighting
Temperature Resistance
Chemical Resistance
Applications

Paints and coatings, Rubber and plastic, Compounding, Insulation and buoyancy, Transportation

From:3M

Glass microspheres are hollow spheres of glass manufactured for a wide variety of uses in consumer goods, medicine, research and numerous industries from Aerospace to Automotive. Hollow glass microspheres from Ceno Technologies, sometimes termed microballoons or glass bubbles, have diameters sized in micrometers (microns).

Glass microspheres from Ceno Technologies are free-flowing, high strength, low density, inert and have a wide variety of uses as a lightweight filler in composite materials, syntactic foams, paints, plastics, putties, mastics, fibreglass, sealants, varnishes, resins and cements.

Ceno Series HGT high performance microspheres are hollow, white in color and manufactured from soda-lime borosilicate glass in a range of sizes from 2 to 110 microns.

The soda-lime borosilicate composition and near perfect spherical shape of these hollow glass microspheres provide high compressive strength.

Hollow Glass Microspheres–Series HGT–Particle Sizes

Benefits include:

Other key properties include low water absorption, low heat conductivity, high chemical resistance and radio transparency.

Hollow Glass Microspheres – Series HGT – T

From：cenotechnologies

Hollow Glass Microspheres. developed in recent years, are a new type of materials which shows a greater use and an outstanding performance. The product, made mainly from borosilicate, is a hollow microspheres whose grain size is 10-250 micron and wall-thickness 1-2 micron.

The products have many advantages substantial weight saving, low heat conductivity, high mechanical strength and fine chemical stability. With treated specially, they have the properties of lipophilicity and hydrophobicity and are very easily dispersed in organic materials such as resin. It is widely used in the composite materials such as FRP(fiber reinforced plastics),man-made marble and man-made agate.

They have the distinct results of decreasing weight, sound insulation and heat preservation, thus the products have the excellent performances of anti-crazing and re-processing. They are widely to be used in a range of fields such as aviation, space, new bullet train, luxurious yacht, heat insulating dope, bowling balls and play a unique role.

From: bariteworld

Engineered additives for a new generation of high performance paints and coatings.

Glass Bubbles are lightweight/high-strength hollow glass spheres, used as alternatives to conventional fillers in a variety of paints  and specialty coatings, including spackling, caulks, adhesives, roof coatings and more.

From:3M

Lightweight Microspheres in the 11-18 micron range, even smaller flecks of Aluminium or Mica and even Nanoparticles can be coated with a variety of metals including silver, gold, iridium and palladium. The resultant finishes have all the properties of solid metals and have a larger surface area but are extremely reflective, very lightweight and very cost effective.

When added to paints, adhesives, sealers, plastic and resin materials at appropriate ratios, these coated cenospheres, microspheres, nanoparticles, aluminium or mica fleck materials can then provide electrical conductivity and shielding of electronic devices against Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI). The low particle density and large surface area facilitates slow phase separation in paints and adhesives compared to heavy metallic and inorganic fillers.

From: Ceno Technologies

High strength, low-density hollow glass microspheres for critical deepwater components.

These additives are used for density reduction, thermal insulation and buoyancy in many

kinds of syntactic foam compositions.

From:3M