Dicaperl Perlite Microspheres are manufactured from our own Perlite Mine in Socorro New Mexico USA. Dicaperl is the ONLY manufacturer of Perlite Microspheres that owns, operates, and supplies it's manufacturing plants with our own ore. Owning our own Perlite mines ensures volume, supply and quality control for our microspheres that our competitors cannot match. Silane-modified Dicaperl functional fillers substantially reduce weight, reduce shrinkage, improve impact, nailing, stapling, and sanding properties of molded parts. The finest grades are used in RP/Composites including glass fiber reinforced products formed by both spray-up and hand lay-up production processes, where surface detail is critical. The coarser grades are used in cast or molded parts not requiring ultra-fine surface appearance.

Fine particle size, unmodified grades of Dicaperl are quite effective as thickening and anti-sag additives in specialty coatings. The coarser grades are used to produce texture and acoustical coating mixes, block filler paints, etc.

Dicaperl products are available in a range of densities, degrees of whiteness and strengths to suit most formulating requirements. Two proprietary coating processes are used, resulting in two distinct series of products, the "10 Series" using a proprietary silane based coating, and the "20 Series" using a proprietary siloxane based coating.

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