Expancel® microspheres
Blowing agent and lightweight filler in one
It is a simple concept – a small thermoplastic microsphere encapsulating a gas. Add heat and the gas expands while the shell softens giving a dramatic increase in volume. This will help you:
Expancel® FG for food packaging offers high compressibility, no shrinkage, no moisture absorption and is approved by regulatory authorities.
Expancel® WE and Expancel® DE for elastomeric cool-roof coatings give superior reflectance and elasticity and reduce cost and weight.
Expancel® DU and Expancel® DE are used by the automotive industry to reduce weight, dampen sound and improve sealing.
Featured applications where Expancel® Microspheres is used
Using Expancel® microspheres as a lightweight filler in paint will shorten the drying time, introduce a matting effect and provide good filling on uneven substrates.
Do you want to lower your costs and make your sealants and adhesives lighter? With Expancel® microspheres in the mix, this can happen.
In thermoplastic processing, Expancel® microspheres' uniform, closed cell structure results in a stable, controlled foaming process and is a phenomenal blowing agent on its own or combined with a chemical blowing agent.
Use of Expancel® Microspheres improves bulk or reduces grammage keeping the caliper of your board and ensuring resilient seals for food packaging, without shrinkage or water absorption.
Expancel® microspheres are extensively used as sensitizers in industrial explosives in coal, metal and quarry mining operations around the world.
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Expancel® is a registered trademark of Nouryon in a number of territories worldwide.
