Quartzel®

Made from 99.95% silica

Quartzel® family is composed of a wide variety of products made from ultra pure amorphous silica. It mainly consists in yarns, rovings, stitching thread and felts but this is not all. In addition to these common presentations, Saint-Gobain offers products for more specific use such as braided, woven and non-woven products and several others.

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Quartzel® yarns are assemblies of either 9µm, 12.5µm or 14µm filaments gathered into strands (forming package), then processed with varying levels of twist and ply.

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Quartzel® rovings are assemblies of either 9µm or 14µm filaments gathered into strands (forming package) and processed with a very low number of twists.

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Quartzel® sewing thread is made by plying fused quartz yarns (9 microns based continuous filaments). Fiber composition is 99.95% SiO2 exclusive of binder. It is available either uncoated or with PTFE coating.

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Quartzel® Wool is made from pure fused quartz fiber. It is amorphous, continuous, without volatile or binder components and no shots.

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Quartzel® veils are made from Quartzel® yarns which are chopped and then processed into veils through wet-laid process.

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