Since the early '80s, Chemical Division of Asahi Glass has not only been concerned with the supply of basic materials to our customers, but more importantly, with meeting our customers' ever changing needs! This concern has flowered into a continous supply of new products to the market. Below we provide just a glimpse of recently developed products.

Pictorico is a film coated media (OHP, white film, paper, etc.). Invented and developed by Asahi Glass, Pictorico media provides a superior printing surface for ink-jet printers. The advance coating technology of Pictorico media is also considered the best for digital printing.

Cytop is a very unique type of resin which is transparent and which is possible to make a thin layer coating on many substrates, while retaining the excellent properties of the original fluoropolymer.

Based on many years of experience and development of other various products, utilization our in-house fluorochemical technology, Asahi Glass developed this new generation of advanced functional resins for application within the multimedia industry.

SUNSPHERE and M.S.GEL are micrometer-scale, spherical, porous silica gels, whose particle size, pore structure and surface property are designed for highly technical requirements. SUNSPHERE and M.S. GEL have an enormous niche market potential.

SUNSPHERE has gained strong acceptance in the field of cosmetics and toiletries. M.S. GEL has contributed to analytical and preparatory separations. Also blends, such as a smooth ultraviolet absorbing silica gel with metal oxides and no-porous silica gels, could provide advantages to numerous applications.

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