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 Products Can'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
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 Products Can'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
Sodium Metasilicates Sodium metasilicates, METSO BEADS® 2048 and METSO PENTABEAD®20, offer the convenience of sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) in an easy to handle, free-flowing bead. Available in both anhydrous and pentahydrate, sodium metasilicates are the workhorse ingredients in detergents and cleaning products. The metal cleaning, industrial and institutional cleaners, textile and food processing industries all utilize metasilicates for the superior physical and chemical properties. They are also used to manufacture specialty cements used in the drilling industry. Custom Products Can'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
Sodium Silicate Liquids PQ Corporation is the world’s leading producer of sodium silicate. Sodium silicate, also known as waterglass, is a versatile inorganic chemical made by combining sand and soda ash (sodium carbonate) at high temperature. Adjusting the ratio of sand to soda ash yields a variety of products with unique functionality used in many industrial and consumer product applications. PQ sodium silicate is available in solid (lump glass, cullet), liquid, and powder (hydrous and anhydrous) forms. We offer the largest variety of high quality products shipped from the most extensive sodium silicate manufacturing network in the world. PQ technical expertise in support of our customers’ applications, old and new, is second to none. Contact us for technical support and product recommendations. Custom Products Can'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
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 Products Can'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