Zeeospheres™ Ceramic Microspheres Paints and Coatings Applications Profile

Eight ways to help you reduce costs while enhancing Zeeospheres™ Ceramic Microspheres are high-strength, inert fine particles with intrinsic hardness. Zeeospheres microspheres are engineered to help you reduce costs, increase solids, enhance properties, and improve processability.

1 Lower viscosity and improved flow
Unlike many irregularly shaped fillers, Zeeospheres ceramic microspheres roll easily over one another, similar to ball bearings. This contributes to lower viscosity, better flow, and improved sprayability.

2 Higher filler loading to reduce costs
With the lowest surface area to volume ratio of any shape,Zeeospheres ceramic microspheres reduce resin demand and increase volume loading capacity. Smaller spheres may fill voids between larger ones to enhance packing for higher solids/lower VOCs, and reduced costs.

3 Burnish resistance and hardness
Mohs 7 hardness and spherical shape contribute to increased burnish resistance and hardness of the
finished surface. Surfaces stay new looking longer to save the time and cost of touch-ups or repainting.
With ordinary fillers, soft or jagged particles on the surface often break or wear away.

4 Gloss control
Many gloss control materials can increase viscosity. But increasingly higher levels of Zeeospheres ceramic microspheres can help incrementally lower gloss without significantly increasing viscosity
in many applications.

5 Barrier effect
Tight particle packing, combined with hardness and inertness, creates a durable, low-permeation film barrier against weather, corrosion and chemicals.

6 Inert and free of crystalline silica
Because of their inert composition, Zeeospheres™ Ceramic Microspheres are resistant to a variety of chemicals. Solid ceramic microspheres are also free of crystalline silica (hollow microspheres are not).

APPLICATION BENEFITS AT A GLANCE

Architectural coatings
• Durability • Improved burnish resistance
• Scrub-ability • Uniformity of sheen
• Higher PVC

Powder coatings
• Improved flow • Gloss control
• Hardness • Cost reduction

Maintenance coatings
• Corrosion resistance • Cost reduction
• Durability • High loading
• Lower film permeability

Coil coatings
• Flexibility • Hardness
• Gloss control • Cost reduction
• Higher solids

High solids industrial coatings
• High loading with low viscosity • Cost reduction
• Reduced VOC • Spray-ability
• Improved hardness • Gloss control

Primers
• Improved salt spray, humidity resistance
• Higher volume solids
• Cost reduction

Water-reducible industrial finishes
• Increased volume solids • Durability
• Reduced film permeability/ • Gloss control
improved corrosion resistance • Inertness
• Hardness

UV-cured coatings
• High loading with low viscosity • Burnish resistance
• Cost reduction • Scrubability
• Sprayability

Mastics, grouts
• Improved rheology • Reduced shrinkage
• Higher loading • Durability

Zeeospheres Microspheres Product Descriptions