PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS
PQ’s performance chemicals are crucial ingredients in a diverse set of industrial and consumer products. Our performance chemicals act as cleaning and whitening agents in toothpaste, create a “matted” finish on surface coatings and remove impurities from beer and edible oils.
Solid Sodium Silicates 
BRITESIL®
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...
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PQ 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 cement...
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PQ 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 cement...
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PQ 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 cement...
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PQ 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 cement...
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The SS® line of amorphous silicate glass powders is widely used in refractory cements, ceramics, and construction industries.
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A®
PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
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PQ 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 temp...
Read moreSodium Metasilicates 
METSO BEADS® 2048
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...
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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...
Read morePotassium Silicates 
AgSil®
AgSil® potassium silicates serve as fertilizers for use in turf and crop applications as a source of soluble potassium and silicon.
Read moreECODRILL®
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 appli...
Read moreKASIL®
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 c...
Read moreKASOLV®
KASOLV® is a spray-dried soluble powder for use in numerous industrial applications.
Read moreSil-MATRIX®
Sil-MATRIX™ Fungicide/Miticide/Insecticide is an EPA registered biopesticide and is OMRI Listed for organic use as a pesticide for preventative control of powdery mildew and control of mites and aphid...
Read moreLithium Silicates 
LITHISIL® 25
Lithisil® Lithium Silicates are ideal for many applications, including concrete surface treatments, specialty paints and coatings, welding rod binders, refractory, ceramics and glazes.
Read moreLITHISIL® 829
Lithisil® Lithium Silicates are ideal for many applications, including concrete surface treatments, specialty paints and coatings, welding rod binders, refractory, ceramics and glazes.
Read moreZeolites 
ADVERA®
More recently, PQ introduced a new line of ADVERA® specialty zeolite products designed to meet changing and increasingly sophisticated market demands. ADVERA® specialty zeolites are used in a variety...
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PQ’s detergent grade zeolite, VALFOR® 100, has been successfully serving the detergent market since the early 1980’s. PQ’s VALFOR® 100 zeolite has been the primary builder for phosphate-free detergen...
Read moreZeocros
Zeocros zeolites find use as opacifiers and fillers in paper manufacture and surface coatings. Zeocros specialty zeolites are an important part of the plastics and polymers industry where they act as ...
Read moreDoucil®
Doucil zeolites are engineered to produce the optimum particle structure for today's laundry formulations. In addition to the widely used zeolite 4A, PQ produces DOUCIL MAP a proprietary range of prod...
Read moreSilicas 
BRITESORB®
PQ’s BRITESORB® silica gels are selective adsorbents used in the brewing industry and edible oil industries. In beer they are highly selective adsorbents for haze-forming proteins with no adverse aff...
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GASIL® and SILCRON® silica gels are highly porous materials with tight particle size control, ideally suited to surface coating applications, including paints, lacquers, plastics, and paper products.
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SORBSIL® silica hydrogels combine high adsorption capacity with a strong affinity for polar impurities, making them extremely efficient adsorbents for use in the purification of edible oil or biofuel ...
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SORBOSIL® silicas are used in personal care applications such as toothpastes, in which they provide controlled abrasivity and thickening with optimized optical properties allowing them to be used in a...
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