Product Specification

Enhance Road Safety with Reflective Glass Beads High Reflectivity Durability and Smooth Bonding

Description:

Glass beads for road marking are small, reflective spheres that are applied to road markings to improve visibility, especially at night or in low-light conditions. These beads enhance the reflectivity of road paints by bouncing light back to the driver’s eyes, making road markings more visible and safer. They are typically embedded in the road marking paint while it is still wet and help to ensure long-lasting reflectivity and durability.

 Key Characteristics of Glass Beads:

1. High Reflectivity: Glass beads enhance the visibility of road markings by reflecting light back to the driver, particularly at night or in low-light conditions.

2. Durability: They are resistant to wear and weathering, maintaining their reflective properties over time.

3. Smooth Surface: The smooth surface of glass beads allows them to easily bond with paint or road marking materials, ensuring uniform distribution.

4. Size and Sphericity: Glass beads are typically small and spherical in shape, which helps maximize light reflection and provides optimal optical performance.

5. Transparency: The beads are usually clear or translucent, which helps them blend seamlessly with road markings without affecting the color or appearance.

6. Non-Toxic and Environmentally Safe: Glass beads are made from natural materials and are non-toxic, making them safe for the environment.

7. Cost-Effective: Glass beads are relatively inexpensive, making them a cost-effective choice for improving road safety.

8. Weather Resistance: They maintain their reflective properties even in harsh weather conditions, including rain, snow, and extreme temperatures.

Specifiction:

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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