Recycled Glass Powder Plant Completed in Jackson, TN Provides crystalline silica free alternative to traditional mineral fillers & extenders
Atlanta, GA - November 25, 2013
Vitro Minerals announced the completion and startup of a 40 million pound per year recycled glass powder plant in Jackson, TN. The glass powders are designed to provide a 100% recycled, crystalline silica free alternative to traditional mined mineral fillers & extenders such as calcium carbonate, clay, silica, and nepheline syenite.
Glass has a fairly low recycling rate due to collection and processing difficulties. Vitro Minerals has developed a variety of post-consumer and post-industrial glass sources and unique processing schemes to make glass powders with excellent particle size control and brightness standards equal to traditional mineral fillers. The resultant glass powders act as cost effective functional fillers in coatings, plastics, adhesives, sealants, and concrete.
The powders are available in different glass chemistries in particle sizes from 0.5 microns to 500 microns. Mr. Joseph Keating, President, said that “Glass powders, in addition to being free of crystalline silica, offer a lighter weight, corrosion/abrasion resistant filler for polymer systems that have the added advantage of being recycled content.�
About Vitro Minerals  Vitro Minerals is a Georgia Corporation whose principals have extensive experience with traditional mineral fillers, commonly used by the coatings, plastics, sealants, concrete, and paper industries. The company is located in Conyers, GA and can be contacted at 678-729-9333 or by email at TechnicalSales@VitroMinerals.com.
Extensive product and application data can be found at http://www.vitrominerals.com