Products
Basic Information
HTIW products are:
- Made of synthetic vitreous and polycrystalline mineral wools
- Defined by a classification temperature above 1000 °C
- Typically used at temperatures above 600 °C
- Necessary for many high-tech products owing to their versatile characteristics
- Essential for minimizing energy consumption and correlated greenhouse gas emissions
HTIWs are produced synthetically from mineral raw materials. There are some important differences between natural fibres and man-made mineral fibres. Beside the differences in the chemical composition, MMMF have parallel edges.
However, as their name suggests, HTIWs are used at much higher temperatures (typically from 600 °C to 1800 °C) than most other glass and rock wools.
Common characteristics of HTIW
- high temperature resistance
- low thermal conductivity
- excellent thermal shock resistance
- chemically neutral
- great flexibility
- low thermal mass
- light weight
HTIW is NOT Asbestos
High Temperature Insulation Wool is often compared to Asbestos. THIS IS WRONG!
