Specialty Glass Fibers

Mo-Sci has extensive experience in glass fiber fabrication techniques and in developing glass compositions whose properties are tailor-made to satisfy special applications. We can determine fiber forming conditions such as temperature and flow rate. If you need a glass fiber with particular properties or can benefit from our research capabilities, contact our office and one of our engineers will be happy to discuss our products and services with you.

Whatever You Specify: Custom Compositions Special Diameters Doping Capabilities Tailored Properties Chop Length Flexibility Small Unit Size Special Coatings

Mo-Sci Corporation provides a wide range of custom glass fiber compositions and configurations. Complementary to our glass melting capabilities, we can produce research quantities of fiber in difficult-to-get diameters, lengths, dopings, compositions, and surface treatments.

Examples of products produced include bioabsorbable reinforcement fibers, colored glass fibers with refractive index matched to a transparent polymer matrix, and fibers made from special glass compositions to standard or nonstandard diameters and lengths. Even select glass-ceramic formulations can be produced in fiber form.

Typically, the glass is melted and drawn from a platinum bushing onto a rotating takeup drum. Fiber can be produced sizing-free, or coated with the silane of your choice.

Fiber diameters are available ranging from 10 microns to more than 150 microns.

Examples of glass compositions range from the typical alkali-free borosilicate glasses for reinforcing composites or spacer applications, to the more exotic and harder to produce phosphate glass fibers.

Mo-Sci can produce fibers consistently to within 5% of the target diameter. Production fibers are typically measured with a microprocessor-controlled filar micrometer calibrated to a NIST traceable standard.