Glass Beads Potters

Potters® Engineered Glass Materials (EGM) business works closely with customers to provide value-added performance additives that uniquely improve customer formulations by lowering cost and increasing performance.

Our microspheres serve as functional additives in industrial applications such as weight-reducing fillers in plastics, polymers, and automotive body putties, as extenders in adhesives and paints/coating formulations, sensitizers in industrial explosives, electromagnetic shielding for electronic parts, and abrasive applications for cleaning and peening metal surfaces.

Remember SPHERES:

• Safe – Amorphous, no crystalline silica
• Particle – tight particle size doesn’t affect finish
• Hard – 6 on the Mohs scale, makes coatings tough
• Engineered – Designed particle size distribution, lot-to-lot consistency
• Round – True spheres, “ball bearing” effect
• Environmental – Glass is GRAS and inert
• Smooth – Low surface area per unit volume, not a resin “hog”