Dualite Microspheres | Lightweight Fillers for Efficient Solutions

Microspheres

Lightweight Fillers: Small Size, Big Impact﻿
Dualite microspheres are industry leaders in lightweight material fillers. These highly customizable beads offer substantial weight reduction to a material, while preserving optimal characteristics of the mix. In many case, Dualite microspheres bring further benefits due to their quality insulation.

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Where Microspheres are widely used:

Expanded Microspheres

Unexpanded Microspheres

Master Batch

Automotive & Other Applications

Expanded microspheres are used in applications where there isn’t enough heat in the process to use unexpanded products.
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We blend unexpanded microspheres with calcium carbonate and expand them using a patented process.

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Expanded Microspheres

Density and size are modified to reduce weight, lower overhead, and enhance physical properties

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Unexpanded Microspheres

Polymeric microspheres utilizing heat expansion for optimum functionality

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Masterbatch

Compounded with a resin carrier resulting in a closed cell system for improved dispersion

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What are Microspheres?

Dualite microspheres are microscopic, ultra-lightweight fillers made from flexible polymer shells. Lighter than glass alternatives, polymeric microspheres can be added to plastics, resins, adhesives, and composites. Their inclusion produces a number of benefits depending on the application. This includes, reducing density, lowering material overhead, improving insulation, VOC reduction, and controllable material flow.

Microspheres come in two forms:

Unexpanded

Must have heat in the process or application to expand.

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Expanded

Used in processes that do not tolerate heat.

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Lightweight Filler Breakthrough

Dualite Polymer Microspheres products offer unique solutions to meet the needs of numerous industries and a broad spectrum of end-use applications through a patented process that controls expansion and coating applications

Features and Benefits

Lightweight

Sound Dampening

Density

Price Reduction

Environmental Benefits

Reduced Weight

Use less materials (add 1-3% of Dualite can reduce total weight by 15-20%)

VOCs

Impedes solvent migration during the mixing and manufacturing process

Reduced Costs

Pound for pound, microspheres are far cheaper than the base material. In using microspheres to fill volume, you save on material overhead with no impact to formulation performance

Blowing Agents

For a safe workplace, replace chemical blowing agents with Dualite U

Improved Fuel Efficiency

By making sealants and coatings lighter, vehicle fuel efficiency increases

Sound Dampening

Helps reduce vibration/sound emissions for quieter cabin spaces

Microsphere Cost Savings

Using Dualite® E & Dualite® U can result in significant cost savings for your formula. Because of its extremely low density, Dualite® E volumetrically replaces other more expensive raw materials. The volume replacement ability of Dualite® E means that you must understand the volume costs of your current product.

Dualite® provides cost savings by replacing expensive raw materials, but it can also help reduce shipping expenses and energy consumption. Calculate your values by multiplying lbs/gal by cost/lbs

Using Dualite® E & Dualite® U can result in a considerable weight reduction of your product. Because of its extremely low density, Dualite® volumetrically replaces other more dense raw materials.

Microspheres can be added to plastics, resins, adhesives, and composites

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