Glass beads for paint | reflective glass beads for traffic paint

Glass beads for paint

Glass microspheres have a powdery appearance. To enhance the clarity of road markings, especially in dark nighttime conditions outdoors, we incorporate glass microspheres into traffic paint. Glass microspheres inherently possess excellent reflectivity, producing a particularly pronounced retroreflective effect that significantly improves the clarity of road markings.

 What are the Applications of Glass beads for paint ?

Glass beads for paint

How Do You Use Glass Beads in Traffic Paint?
Application Method | Reflective Glass Beads
Applications and Specification
How Do You Use Glass Beads in Traffic Paint?

Currently, there are two primary methods for incorporating glass microspheres into road marking paint: 

Glass beads for paint | Reflective glass beads for traffic paint

1. Pre-mixing the paint with glass microspheres allows the microspheres to blend seamlessly into the paint, simplifying the application process.
2. Manually placing glass microspheres onto wet paint during application ensures they embed into the paint and remain fixed in their respective positions as the paint dries.

As a professional glass microsphere manufacturer and supplier in China, we provide glass microspheres for road markings, which are used in road marking paint and thermoplastics to provide high-intensity reflective effects at night.

Application Method | Reflective Glass Beads

Reflective glass beads for paint

As previously mentioned, larger-sized glass microspheres offer better visibility, especially in rainy conditions.

Reflective glass beads for paint is recommended to evenly distribute and embed the glass microspheres into the paint for optimal reflective performance.

Under specific weather conditions, the use of glass microspheres significantly enhances nighttime visibility and safety on roads, emphasizing the importance of their correct application.

Regular maintenance post-application ensures consistent nighttime visibility, with options including repainting or additional glass bead incorporation. Our reflective glass microspheres are compatible with line striping machines for direct application in paint. For smaller-scale work, containers with perforations suffice for manual operation.

Glass beads for road marking paint can be manually applied by sprinkling them onto wet paint; however, it’s crucial the paint remains wet during application. We recommend using lighter-colored paint coatings, such as white, yellow, or orange.

Our high-reflectivity glass microspheres are suitable for both water-based and solvent-based paint formulations, applicable for roads, airport pedestrian crossings, and curbs. The primary component of reflective glass microspheres is sodium glass.

Excess glass beads can be brushed off once the paint dries, allowing for reuse in subsequent work. Glass microspheres, as the primary reflective material in traffic paint and road markings, are indeed made from recycled glass.

Incorporating them into private paint formulations enhances nighttime driving safety, greatly improving visibility and extending paint lifespan.

Not only are they straightforward to use, compatible with standard highway marking equipment, but glass beads for road paint also reduce drying time and costs.

Applications and Specification

Application of Glass beads for paint : 

Reflective glass beads for paint

 We sincerely welcome you to inquire about our glass microbeads and use them in water-based or solvent based paints.They have a reflective effect in the paint and coating, which has a significant impact on the traffic paint.

 This economically efficient and reusable glass microbead has played an important role in the industrial field, ensuring the safety of the entire society.

We are also willing to provide you with free samples for testing.

Application of glass beads for paint

• Pavement marking
• Road line marking
• Safety markings

Package

• 25kgs PE bag+pallet
• Ton bag+pallet