
Blasting Glass Beads Abrasives Applications
Glass beads are ideal where a balance between cleaning, finishing, and surface integrity is required. For heavy rust or thick coatings, alternatives like aluminum oxide or steel grit may be more suitable.
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Glass beads are ideal where a balance between cleaning, finishing, and surface integrity is required. For heavy rust or thick coatings, alternatives like aluminum oxide or steel grit may be more suitable.

Glass beads used as abrasives are small, spherical beads made from soda-lime or other types of glass. They are commonly used in abrasive blasting (also known as bead blasting) for surface finishing, cleaning, and peening applications. Here’s an overview of their characteristics, uses, and benefits: Characteristics of Glass Bead Abrasives: Shape: Perfectly spherical, ensuring smooth, uniform

Glass bead is a commonly used abrasive media in blast cleaning. Depending on the size used and when used correctly, it can create an aesthetic, smooth finish, be used for NDT Blast

8mm 9mm 10mm 11mm solid Soda lime glass balls Shape Solid Ball Color Colorless Transparent Mohs Hardness 7 HRC hardness 46 Real Density 2.5g/cm3 Bulk Density 1.5g/cm3 Si02 70.2% Na20 12.5% Ca0 9.0% Mg0 3.6% Al203 3.8% Fe203 0.1% K2O 0.4% Packing 25kg per bag Size: 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 100 120 140 150

Glass beads are made of broken glass, flat glass and other raw materials by high temperature melting bead processing. Low thermal conductivity, high strength, good chemical stability, and the texture of glass beads themselves, glass beads instead of plastic raw materials are widely used in filling, such as gravity blanket filling, compression filling, medical filling,

9mm 10mm 11mm glass beads for industrial spray paint cans Shape Solid Ball Color Colorless Transparent Mohs Hardness 7 HRC hardness 46 Real Density 2.5g/cm3 Bulk Density 1.5g/cm3 Si02 70.2% Na20 12.5% Ca0 9.0% Mg0 3.6% Al203 3.8% Fe203 0.1% K2O 0.4% Packing 25kg per bag Size: 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 100 120 140