Lithium Silicates Lithisil® Lithium Silicates are preferred to sodium and potassium silicates for many applications, including concrete surface treatments, specialty paints and coatings, welding rod binders, refractory, ceramics and glazes Lithisil® 25 has a higher concentration of lithium, while Lithisil® 829 is a potassium lithium silicate. Both liquids are available in drums and IBC’s. Custom ProductsCan't find what you're looking for? Our engineers can work with you to customize our products to fit your specific needs!Contact Customer Service Lithium Silicates Description
Highway Marking SpheresA GROWING ROLE IN ENSURING HIGHWAY SAFETY With more drivers traveling on more roads, the need to promote safety - especially at night and during poor weather conditions - has been a continuing concern. In response, Potters Industries has developed both materials and technology to improve visibility while enhancing driver safety.Embedding glass beads into highway safety markings creates reflective lines that shine through darkness, rain, and fog to direct drivers more safely along the road. Customers who rely on our VISIBEAD® family of products - VISIBEAD, VISIBEAD PLUS II, VISIULTRA, VISIMAX, VISILOK, ULTRA 1.9, & ULTRAGUARD - include highway safety authorities, pavement marking material producers, and road marking companies.At the same time, we work with governments around the world to address improvements in highway safety. With our ongoing research into retroreflectivity coupled with our industry leading Technical Service team, our leadership and innovation have set the standards for reflective highway markings.Worldwide acceptance of these safety standards has resulted in global demand for reflective marking materials. Currently, more than two-thirds of our annual worldwide production - the single largest use of our products worldwide - is used for highway delineation and guidance systems.CONTINUING TO EXPAND IN A CHANGING WORLDAs greatly as Potters has grown over the years, we realize that a universe of possibilities remains to be explored. We welcome your inquiries about our current products and about pursuing new opportunities and applications. Custom ProductsCan't find what you're looking for? Our engineers can work with you to customize our products to fit your specific needs!Contact Customer Service
Potassium Silicates PQ Corporation offers the widest variety of potassium silicate products, including liquids, spray-dry hydrous, anhydrous powders, and flake. KASIL® Potassium Silicate liquids are available in various silica/potassium oxide ratios and concentrations. Whether you are manufacturing welding rods, detergents, refractory binders, or specialty coatings, PQ has a potassium silicate to meet your needs. AgSil® potassium silicates serve as fertilizers for use in turf and crop applications as a source of soluble potassium and silicon. Sil-MATRIX® potassium silicate is an EPA-registered and OMRI Organic certified biochemical pesticide for preventative control of powdery mildew and control of mites and aphids on high-value crops such as wine grapes, strawberries, blueberries, and others. ECODRILL® potassium silicates are widely used in Oilfield applications in drilling fluid formulations for cleaning the drilling bit and carrying the rock cuttings to the surface. Other Oilfield applications include well conformance, cementing, treatment/remediation, and enhanced oil recovery. Custom ProductsCan't find what you're looking for? Our engineers can work with you to customize our products to fit your specific needs!Contact Customer Service Potassium Silicates Description
Solid Sodium Silicates PQ Corporation offers sodium silicate powders in various ratios, both anhydrous and hydrated forms. The hydrous products are spray-dried for quicker dissolution and used in industries including refractory cements, construction, coatings, personal care, detergents, and cleaning compounds. BRITESIL® spray-dried products provide unique benefits for the detergent and industrial cleaning industries. These powders show controlled dissolution and provide the benefits of sodium silicate in a dry form. The SS® line of amorphous silicate glass powders is widely used in refractory cements, ceramics, and construction industries.PQ Corporation’s Performance Materials & Chemicals business will increase prices of precipitated silica and silica gel products by 6%, as contracts allow. The price increase will become effective January 1st, 2019 and will include the following brand names; Gasil®, Silcron®, Sorbosil®, Britesorb®, Sorbsil®, Neosyl®, Microcal® and Alusil®. These products are used in a wide range of applications including personal/oral care, coatings, plastics and food and beverage processing. This increase is necessary in order to offset increases in production costs and to allow continuous investment in the business in order to meet customer requirements for high performance specialty products Custom ProductsCan't find what you're looking for? Our engineers can work with you to customize our products to fit your specific needs!Contact Customer Service