.st0{fill:#1A4780;} Products Expancel microspheres Find Product categories Applications Featured products Case stories Downloads Contact Expancel is a lightweight filler and blowing agent all in one. Its high performance opens a world of possibilities It is a simple concept – a small thermoplastic microsphere encapsulating a gas. Add heat and the gas expands while the shell softens giving a dramatic increase in volume. This will help you: cut manufacturing costs, reduce weight, improve yields, minimize the use of resin, create attractive textures and more. Expancel FG for food packaging offers high compressibility, no shrinkage, no moisture absorption and is approved by regulatory authorities. Expancel WE and Expancel DE for elastomeric cool-roof coatings gives superior reflectance and elasticity and reduces cost and weight. Expancel DU and Expancel DE are used by the automotive industry to reduce weight, dampen sound and improve sealing. To see the video, please accept the media and social cookie. Cookie settings Product categories and services Lightweight fillers Expancel expanded thermoplastic microspheres are lightweight fillers with extremely low density. Blowing agents Expancel unexpanded microspheres are blowing agents, expanding up to 60 times in volume. Online safety training Interactive online education for your employees on how to safely use our dry microspheres. Featured applications where Expancel is used Paint, coatings and inks Using Expancel Microspheres as a lightweight filler in paint will shorten the drying time, introduce a matting effect and provide good filling on uneven substrates. Building and construction Do you want to lower your costs and make your sealants and adhesives lighter? With Expancel Microspheres in the mix this can happen. Polymer processing In thermoplastic processing, Expancel microspheres' uniform, closed cell structure results in a stable, controlled foaming process and is a phenomenal blowing agent on its own or combined with a chemical blowing agent. Packaging material Use of Expancel improves bulk or reduces grammage keeping the caliper of your board and ensures resilient seals for food packaging, without shrinkage or water absorption. Mining Expancel microspheres are extensively used as sensitizers in industrial explosives in coal, metal and quarry mining operations around the world. Featured products Expancel microspheres Expancel 921 WE 40 d24 Wet, expanded thermoplastic microspheres used as a lightweight filler in coatings, leather and similar applications. It has a particle size of around 40 µm. Read more Expancel microspheres Expancel 909 DU 80 Dry powder of unexpanded thermoplastic microspheres used as a blowing agent in silicone rubber and different coatings applications. It expands at a temperature range of 120-190°C and the particle size is around 80 µm in its expanded form. Read more Expancel microspheres Expancel FG92 DU 120 Dry powder of unexpanded thermoplastic microspheres used as a blowing agent in food contact applications. It expands at a temperature range of 122-206°C and the particle size is around 120 µm in its expanded form. Read more Show all Expancel products Explore customer case stories Diam - wine corks By offering designed wine cork solutions wines are kept safe year after year Inca - cool roof coatings Enforced long-lasting waterproofing and cool roof capabilities Lantor - nonwoven solutions Cost-effective increases in stiffness, weight reduction and flexibility Downloads Expancel overview brochure Get more insight into the solutions Expancel can offer PDF (6.2 MB) Expancel DE - product specification Specification for our Expancel DE products PDF (452.3 KB) Expancel WU - product specification Specification for our Expancel WU products PDF (503.9 KB) All downloads New Expancel line for specialty thin coatings applications The new Expancel Extra Small Microsphere (XSMS) line brings additional benefits to specialty thin coatings applications Read media release To see the video, please accept the media and social cookie. Cookie settings News and events New Expancel line for specialty thin coatings applications 3 Nov 2020 - News Strengthening US Expancel position with new Midwest production facility 12 Aug 2020 - News Launching elastomeric cool roof coatings solution 6 May 2020 - News All news Get in touch! For more information about our Expancel solutions, please contact our experts. We look forward to hearing from you. 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