Glass Beads

Glass Beads are a spherical abrasive manufactured from chemically inert soda lime glass.
Glass Beads are used for cleaning, finishing, light peening, deburring, sanitizing, descaling,
coating removal, polishing and surface blending.
Glass Beads produce a bright satin finish; finer beads produce a smoother non glare finish,
while larger beads produce a deeper textured finish. Blasting with Glass Bead does not
produce any dimension changes to the part base surface.

Chemical Composition:
SiO2 Na2O K2O CaO MgO Al2O3
71-73% 13-15% 0.2-0.6% 8-10% 3-5% 0.5-2%

Physical Properties:
Hardness Specific Bulk Shape Free Free iron Free Iron
Mohs Gravity Density Silica Colour
6-7 2.4-2.6 1.5 Spherical NL ≤1% Clear
g/ cm3 g/ cm3

Grits Available:

Size mesh Size inch Size um %round

25-45 0.0278-0.0139 710-355 65
30-40 0.0234-0.0165 600-425 65
40-60 0.0165-0.0098 425-250 75
40-70 0.0165-.0083 425-212 70
50-70 0.0117-0.0083 300-212 75
50-80 0.0117-0.0070 300-180 70
60-120 0.0098-0.0049 250-125 80
70-140 0.0083-0.0041 212-106 80
100-170 0.0059-0.0035 150-90 85
120-270 0.0049-0.0021 125-53 85
170-325 0.0035-0.0017 90-45 85
Standards:

GB/T24722-2009, BS6088—1981 from UK,

AASHTO M247—1981 from United State,
EN1423—1997,EN1424—1998 from Europe, L2521 from Korea，
JIS R3301 from Japan, etc.

Application:

Glass beads is used for cleaning, surface finishing and sanitizing of metallic parts, especially
effective on stainless steel, food processing equipment, medical instruments.
Shot peening of aircraft engine blades, turbine rotors, gears, bricks, shafts, steam and gas
turbine components.
Glass beads also used for road marking.