Lightweighting with 3M™ Glass Bubbles helps improve fuel economy, contributing to sustainability.
3M offers high strength hollow glass microspheres that can withstand the requirements of the injection-molding process, despite their low density. They can be incorporated into a wide variety of plastics to drive down weight while maintaining desirable physical properties.
3M glass bubbles reduce the density of standard SMCs/BMCs to below 1.0 g/cc enabling weight reductions of as much as 40%.
3M glass bubbles can reduce the weight of underbody coating and seam sealer by up to 50% - contributing to lower overall vehicle weight.