Heavy Duty Glassflake Coatings for Arduous Anti-Corrosion Service.

Glass flakes have been used for a number of years to reduce gas and moisture vapour diffusion through coating and paint films. Advances in glass flake production over more recent years, have allowed thinner and more consistent flake to be produced, and this has led to investigative work into the properties that can be attained by way of using glass flake as a performance improver. This work has investigated many materials both organic and inorganic and in many areas of use – such as tyres and even cosmetics. But, the biggest field of application is in organic resinous materials, not least of which, are those used in the area of corrosion protection for arduos service. Surprisingly, although the very thin flakes (below 2 microns) are better performance improvers in most applications in some applications thick flakes (over 7 microns) are found to give better results.