GILSONITE
WASIT GROUP is starting to supply GILSONITE in the market locally and internationally. GILSONITE is usually black in color but sometimes it occurs as a brownish-black color. GILSONITE is a natural, resinous hydrocarbon and often called a Natural Asphalt, Asphaltite, Uintaite, or Asphaltum.
Our GILSONITE product is available in 325 mesh size. It is also available in different grades as per our clients’ requirements.
Applications :
- In paint industry
- In polish industry
- As carbon black wetting agents for black news ink and heat set and gravure ink
- As a binder in wood products industry
- In drilling mud fluids and oil well cementing
- As asphalt modifiers
- As foundry sands and casting sands additives
- In cementing slurries
- To insulate tanks, tubes and even molding
- As a binder and additive in steel desulfurization products
- To make waterproof coatings for water pipes
- Asphalt driveway coat sealer
- Solvent-based and emulsion pavement sealers
- As a performance-enhancing agent for asphalt mixes
- As an organic fuel in fireworks
- For manufacture of high purity carbon electrodes in the nuclear industry
- As a binder in metallurgical additives and refractories
- In manufacture of con-tact and hot melt adhesives, friction products, and pipe coatings
- In roofing materials primarily as an agent to lower the penetration of petroleum asphalt without aging or oxidizing the base Asphalt
- In Bitumen and Asphalt production
ADVANTAGES:
- Readily soluble without heating in aromatic solvents and in most chlorinated solvents
- High Asphaltene content
- High solubility in organic solvents
- High purity and consistent properties
- High molecular weight
- High in resin and Nitrogen content