How are ceramic paint additives used? There are endless applications for ceramics, but primarily it insulates paints and coatings. These ceramics can be used in many, many different applications. Honestly,...
These ceramics can be used in many, many different applications. Honestly, so far it is limited only by the imagination. Its primary use for what we do here, as a company in the products that we produce, is insulating paints and coatings. Coatings that are designed to keep heat in a building in cold climates, keep heat out of a building on hot climates. The ceramics have also been used successfully in plastics, polymers, and thermal resistance to lower thermal conductivity. There is a lot of research going on.
Right now, someone will read about the ceramic microspheres over the internet or in a magazine and will have an idea. They start asking, "Can I insulate a piece of plastic?" For example, there is interest in the packaging industry with using ceramics in paper cups, styrofoam cups, and things like that. We have another company that is working with incorporating the ceramics into inks. This ink would be used on soda cans. The concept behind this is if the ceramics will not allow heat to transfer through them and the soda gets warm when you are holding on to the aluminum can, what if there are ceramics in the ink? We get calls every week from very imaginative people: Architects and engineers with all sorts of very interesting ideas.
Having an insulator in a powdered form is not something that has been available before. When people think of insulation, they think of standard things that are available, and they are very limited in their usage. When you take a microfine powder like a talcum powder that is capable of insulating, that opens up an entire brand new world of possibilities and imaginations.
