GROW
In horticultural applications, Perlite is used throughout the world as a component of soilless growing mixes where it provides aeration and optimum moisture retention for superior plant growth. For rooting cuttings, 100% Perlite is used. Studies have shown that outstanding yields are achieved with Perlite hydroponics systems.
Other benefits of horticultural Perlite are its neutral pH and the fact it is sterile and weed- free. In addition, its light weight makes it ideal for use in a container growing. Other horticultural applications for Perlite are as a carrier for fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides and for palletizing seed. Horticultural Perlite is as useful to the home gardener as it is to the commercial grower. It is used with equal success in greenhouse growing, landscaping applications and in the home in the house plants.
EXPANDED PERLITE FOR HORTICULTURAL USE
In horticultural applications, Perlite is used throughout the world as a component of soilless growing mixes where it provides aeration and optimum moisture retention for superior plant growth. For rooting cuttings, 100% Perlite is used. Studies have shown that outstanding yields are achieved with Perlite hydroponics systems.
Other benefits of horticultural Perlite are its neutral pH and the fact it is sterile and weed- free. In addition, its light weight makes it ideal for use in a container growing. Other horticultural applications for Perlite are as a carrier for fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides and for palletizing seed. Horticultural Perlite is as useful to the home gardener as it is to the commercial grower. It is used with equal success in greenhouse growing, landscaping applications and in the home in the house plants.
Filtraflo®
Filtraflo® is our range of milled expanded perlite filteraids which are produced in various grades. Perlite is chemically inert, completely sterile, non-toxic, non-flammable, does not impart taste, odour or colour, and does not degrade or alter chemically. These properties make Filtraflo® suitable for use in a wide variety of solid-liquid separation applications that includes wine, fruit juice, beer, pulp & paper manufacturers and the manufacturers of food products such as edible oils, glucose and sugar.
Grade |
Application |
|---|---|
| 411 | Beer & Wine filtration, Defluorination, Filler (non-textured paint), Pitch Scavenger (paper industry). |
| 421 | Filtering electroplating solutions, Beer Industrial Chemicals, Heavy metal solutions, Syrups, Aluminium solutions. |
| 431 | Filtering gold bearing solutions, Beer, Wine, Industrial Chemicals, Aspirin, Yeast, Phosphoric acid. |
| 471 | Filtering beer, Wine, Platinum bearing solutions, Cobalt – Copper – Nickel solutions, Calcium acetate, Calcium propionate, Heavy metal solutions. |
| 4101 | Filtering gold bearing solutions, fruit juices, resins, glycerine, beer, wine, mineral oils, hydrolysed vegetable protein. |
| 4151 | Filtering sulphur, Edible oils, Industrial chemicals, Chrome solutions. |
| 4201 | Filtering glucose, Starches, Wine, Fruit juices, Industrial effluents, Alginates, Latex, Antibiotics, Titanium solutions, Calcium nitrates, Resins, Swimming pool water. |
| 4251 | Filtering wine, fruit juices. |
| 4251SP | Filtering wine, fruit juices. |
Genulite®
Genulite® is the trade name for expanded perlite grades. Genulite® has many varied applications as detailed below:
Grade |
Application |
|---|---|
| M45 | Cryogenic insulation, loose fill insulation, textured paint filler. |
| M75 | Foundries (surface insulation), filler in explosives. |
| M75S | Filler in explosives. |
| M105 | Foundries (surface insulation) refractory castables, light weight plasters. |
| C95 | Refractory castables, textured paint filler, coarse plaster aggregate, loose fill insulation, light weight insulating concrete aggregate. |
| Groperl | Horticulture. |
STOL®
STOL® is the trade name for a naturally occurring siliceous volcanic rock called perlite. The distinguishing feature of STOL® is that when heated above a suitable point in its softening range it expands up to twenty times its original volume. In high temperature applications, such as those encountered in the iron-and-steel and foundry industries, the expansion of STOL® results in particles with large surface areas.
This expansion is also accompanied by a small cooling action. These effects combine to coagulate slag, the unwanted by-product of metal smelting, and thereby form a viscous, toffee-like mass that can be effectively removed from the molten metal interface. An added advantage of perlite in this application is that no objectionable smoke or noxious fumes are produced.
DICALITE
Diatomaceous earth is an amorphous form of silica containing a small amount of microcrystalline material. Filter aids are processed at above 800 °C (1500 °F). Both calcined and flux-calcined diatomite filter aids are free of organic matter and are non-adsorptive. Dicalite diatomite filter aids offer outstanding performance from the finest to the coarsest grades. These materials meet all requirements for good filter aids. This enables them to meet the exacting clarity and flow-rate demands of industrial filtration. Even more important, the user can depend on consistency and uniformity load after load.
Vitiben®
The Vitiben® Bentonite clarifying agent is designed to remove undesirable compounds from wine and juice. These compounds include phenolics, proteins, and tannins, which are present in the fruit and result from natural enzyme reaction during processing and aging. Undesirable compounds cause haze, browning reactions, off-flavours, post-bottling settling, and poor shelf life. Vitiben® absorbs and coagulates these undesirable substances so they can be easily filtered out during fining or clarification.
The processing aids division adds a complete service to our customers in the Food & Beverage industry with the supply of:
- ACTICARB – Activated carbon
- GROBLEND – Soilless Growing Medium
- ANTIOXIDANTS – TBHQ, BHA, BHT and Ascobyl Palmitate
- OTHER – CMC Powder (Carboxy Methyl Cellulose)