Product Specification

High Reflectivity and Durability The Winning Combination of Reflective Glass Beads for Road Marking

Description:

Glass beads for road marking are small, spherical, and highly reflective elements that are embedded into road marking paint to enhance visibility, especially at night or in low-light conditions. Their primary function is to improve the retroreflectivity of road markings, making them visible to drivers when headlights hit them, thereby improving road safety.

Key Characteristics:

• Shape: Glass beads are typically spherical, which helps maximize the reflection of light back towards the source (i.e., vehicle headlights). This spherical shape provides better optical performance compared to other shapes.
• Size: The diameter of glass beads used in road marking typically ranges from 50 to 150 microns (0.05 to 0.15 mm), with most applications using beads between 60 and 100 microns.
• Refractive Index: Glass beads have a high refractive index, usually between 1.5 and 1.9, which enhances their ability to reflect light back to drivers, even from a distance.
• Transparency: The beads are generally clear or translucent, ensuring they do not alter the color of the road marking paint while still providing high levels of reflectivity.
• Durability: Glass beads are known for their excellent durability and resistance to weathering, wear, and environmental conditions. They maintain their reflective properties for an extended period, even in harsh weather conditions.

Applications of Glass Beads:

1. Road Marking

• Purpose: Glass beads are primarily used in road marking paints to improve visibility and reflectivity, especially at night or in low-light conditions.
• How It Works: The beads are embedded in wet road paint, and their spherical shape helps reflect headlights from vehicles, enhancing road safety by making the markings more visible.
• Applications: Highways, streets, parking lots, pedestrian crossings, and airport runways.

2. Traffic Signage

• Purpose: Glass beads are used to enhance the visibility of road signs, such as warning signs, regulatory signs, and guide signs.
• How It Works: The beads are incorporated into the sign surface or applied as a reflective coating, allowing signs to be visible at night or during poor weather conditions.
• Applications: Regulatory road signs, directional signs, construction zone indicators, and reflective sheeting for traffic signs.

3. Reflective Clothing and Safety Gear

• Purpose: Glass beads are used in the production of reflective fabrics for high-visibility safety clothing and gear.
• How It Works: Glass beads are embedded into the fabric or applied as a coating to enhance visibility for workers or pedestrians in low-light environments.
• Applications: Construction workers, emergency responders, roadside maintenance personnel, cyclists, and outdoor enthusiasts.

4. Pavement Markings for Airports

• Purpose: Glass beads are used for marking runways, taxiways, and aprons at airports.
• How It Works: The beads improve the reflectivity of pavement markings, making them highly visible during night operations and in adverse weather conditions.
• Applications: Airport runways, taxiways, and safety zones.

5. Industrial Applications

• Purpose: Glass beads are used in a variety of industrial applications, such as abrasive blasting and surface cleaning.
• How It Works: The beads are used as a non-destructive abrasive medium to clean or finish metal, plastic, or other surfaces.
• Applications: Metal surface preparation, cleaning, and finishing, particularly in industries like automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing.

6. Cosmetics and Personal Care

• Purpose: Glass beads are sometimes used in personal care products like exfoliating scrubs or as a filler in certain makeup products.
• How It Works: The beads act as a gentle abrasive, helping to exfoliate the skin without causing damage.
• Applications: Facial scrubs, body scrubs, and certain cosmetic formulations.

7. Reflective Paints and Coatings

• Purpose: Glass beads are added to paints and coatings to enhance their reflectivity.
• How It Works: By embedding glass beads in paint or coating materials, the surface becomes more reflective, improving visibility in low-light conditions.
• Applications: Safety coatings, reflective paints for roadways, parking lots, and emergency markings.

8. Agriculture (Frost Protection)

• Purpose: Glass beads can be used in agricultural applications to prevent frost damage to crops.
• How It Works: Reflective glass beads can be spread over crops to reduce the amount of heat lost from the ground at night, offering some protection against frost.
• Applications: Agricultural fields in frost-prone regions.

9. Glass Bead Road Paint (For Decorative Purposes)

• Purpose: Glass beads are also used for decorative road paint and markings, adding sparkle or shine to the surface.
• How It Works: These beads enhance the appearance and texture of road surfaces, providing an aesthetic element.
• Applications: Decorative road designs, sports courts, and playground markings.

10. Mining Industry

• Purpose: Glass beads are used in the mining industry for high-performance blasting.
• How It Works: The beads act as abrasives to clean, etch, or finish materials.
• Applications: Used in abrasive blasting for cleaning metals and other surfaces in the mining process.

OUR SERVICES

Dear customers, as an enterprise that has been producing marking paints in South China for ten years, our company adheres to the principle of serving customers, providing products for customers from the perspective of customers, and providing professional construction guidance and after-sales service.

Our company has a number of road construction teams, and undertakes a number of high-speed and urban road marking construction projects in China. During the construction process, our company continuously improves the whiteness, brightness and retroreflection coefficient of the marking paint, which enjoys a high reputation in the industry.

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