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Retro Raw Materials Trading LLC Glass Beads

Retro Raw Materials Trading LLC as a commercial and Procurement company is one of the important suppliers of high-quality Micro Glass Beads, which provides the material mostly from UAE, and China.

Glass Beads

One of Retro’s main products are reflective glass beads for road marking, industrial glass beads for shot blasting and abrasives, glass beads as a filler, and color glass beads for decoration. Reflective glass beads for road marking are one of the most popular products.

One of the main uses of glass beads is to use in combination with “road marking” to increase night vision power.  Reflective glass beads can improve the retro-reflection property of the road marking line. To ensure the safety of the roads, road marking should be visible even at night. In the hours when the air is clear, the road marking is visible due to the contrast of the marking color (white or yellow) with road darkness, but at night the factor that causes the marking to be seen is the presence of glass beads so without these beads at night, it’s almost invisible.

Fitted for your purpose

  • Intermix beads: glass beads can be combined into the road marking material.
  • Injection beads: can be added when the road marking is applied.
  • Drop-on beads: can be applied to the surface of newly applied road markings before they have set.

These micro-spherical particles act like small mirrors, they are used in all types of traffic paints such as “cold paint” and “thermoplastic road marking” as the drop on glass beads and as premix glass beads (Intermix glass beads).

In addition to helping the driver’s vision during the day and night in different weather conditions, these products help to withstand the wear, durability, and longevity of various types of traffic paints.

The Art ofGlass Beads

In production, raw material is clean and clear scrap glass, size about 10 to 100mm; after crushing, initial sieving, and furnace heating, it forms as rounded beads; after sieving, mixing, demagnetizing, and coating process, final product is glass beads.

Some application of glass beads are as follows:

  • Reflective glass beads, which mainly used for road marking
  • Cleaning metal or blasting
  • As a filler in various component
  • Firefighting (dry method)
  • Better dispersion
  • Cosmetics
  • Decorative coatings
  • Various color making
  • Filtration
  • Radioactive ink & printer ink
  • Antiskid surface
  • Clarification of surface groove
  • Oil drilling in mud system
  • GlassPhalt
  • Artificial stones
  • Decorative stones

Retro Raw Materials has exported annually 45,000 MT glass beads to Europe, South America, India subcontinent, Africa, and GCC countries.

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With diverse capabilities and extensive supplying experience, you can rely on Retro as a critical part of your supply chain.