牋牋Potters Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of the PQ Corporation, is the world's leading manufacturer of glass beads for highway safety, industrial and specialty applications. Our corporate mission is linked to customer satisfaction. Our technical capabilities allow us to produce a wide variety of materials efficiently while meeting exacting specifications.

牋牋Potters produces most of its glass beads by utilizing recycled glass as a starting material.

牋牋A major portion of the company's glass bead production is used for highway safety markings, providing the light-reflective lane markings found on highways around the world. Through its research and technology advancements, Potters has developed a product line that includes impact beads for cleaning and strengthening metals, reinforcing additives for plastics, media for grinding and dispersing, metal-coated particles to provide electromagnetic shielding interference of electronic parts, and beads for friction reduction in oil drilling. Potters also produces borosilicate glass and ceramic hollow microspheres used as weight reducing fillers in fabricated plastics, automotive body putties, and as extenders in adhesives and coating formulations. Potters hollow spheres are also used as sensitizers in industrial explosives.

牋牋Potters worldwide manufacturing and distribution network supplies its customers from 23 strategically located production points ?11 in the U.S. and Canada, two each in the United Kingdom and Japan, and one each in Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany, Poland, Australia, Thailand, and China.