high silica content glass fibre

[EdCollinson]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a manufacturer of small diameter (ideally 6 micron), high silica content (>90%) glass fibre?

 

[YM]

Production of pure quartz glass is done by
Heraeus:

http://www.heraeus.com

Corning produces fibres:

http://www.corning.com/opticalfiber/products__services/

Or try:

http://www.calphotonics.com/optic1/

If you go to google.com and search for high silica fibres you will get a mountain of results!

 

[EdCollinson]

Thanks for the reply YM. Unfortunately, the application for which I am looking to use high silica fibres cannot possibly support the cost of quartz fibre. The fibres are to be used as a high temperature reinforcement for composites (hence the desired small diameter) so I would be more interested in leached E-glass fibres if anyone can direct me towards a suitable supplier.

 

[QuartzMan]

Contact Saint-Gobain Quartz at mailto:quartz.sales@saint-gobain.com.

We manufacture Quartzel fiber for such applications.

(You can download the Quartzel catalogue from our website at

http://www.quartz.saint-gobain.com

)

George

 

[nbucska]

For Hi T wouldn't carbon better ?


<nbucska@pcperipherals.com>

 

[MikeKinsella]

You could try S-2 glass. The Tg is about 750C.

http://www.agy.com

Weavers like BGF and JPS in the Carolinas supply &quot;Lot Glass&quot; based fabrics for leaching. These are used fro abaltive applications in aerosapce.

http://www.bgf.com

or

http://www.jpsglass.com/

 

[YM]

Another glass producer is Schott glass:

http://www.schott.com/english/index.html

 

[SKH12]

Here is a link to the manufacturer of high silica threads and fabrics:

http://www.polotsk-psv.by

This is exact what you are looking for.