Expancel microspheres
Blowing agent and lightweight filler in one
Expancel microspheres
Blowing agent and lightweight filler in one
It is a simple concept – a small thermoplastic microsphere encapsulating a gas. Add heat and the gas expands while the shell softens giving a dramatic increase in volume. This will help you:
Expancel FG for food packaging offers high compressibility, no shrinkage, no moisture absorption and is approved by regulatory authorities.
Expancel WE and Expancel DE for elastomeric cool-roof coatings gives superior reflectance and elasticity and reduces cost and weight.
Expancel DU and Expancel DE are used by the automotive industry to reduce weight, dampen sound and improve sealing.
Featured applications where Expancel is used
Using Expancel Microspheres as a lightweight filler in paint will shorten the drying time, introduce a matting effect and provide good filling on uneven substrates.
Do you want to lower your costs and make your sealants and adhesives lighter? With Expancel Microspheres in the mix this can happen.
In thermoplastic processing, Expancel microspheres' uniform, closed cell structure results in a stable, controlled foaming process and is a phenomenal blowing agent on its own or combined with a chemical blowing agent.
Use of Expancel improves bulk or reduces grammage keeping the caliper of your board and ensures resilient seals for food packaging, without shrinkage or water absorption.
Expancel microspheres are extensively used as sensitizers in industrial explosives in coal, metal and quarry mining operations around the world.
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