Polyester pearls for bodywork paint

The 90% polyester flakes are made in China and make up the types of flakes for car paint, which are used in the field of decoration, bodywork and fairings.

Have you ever wondered how these sequins are made ? Well, it's just a roll of plastic polyester film made by a 100m long machine. These modern machines create an extremely smooth and shiny film based on polyester and with a metallized thickness of the order of a micron. This film is then passed through a second machine, which goes like a pastry mould, cut into shapes as desired, for example most often cutting out hexagonal shapes. There is thus very logically a lot of lost material and this gives life to waste which is sold as secondary quality.

It is for this reason that we can find both high quality sequins called hexagonal, which have a perfect shape (used in bodywork) and on the other side very economical sequins (used in decoration ), composed of irregularly shaped fragments. In most cases, users are not very particular about the shapes at first because it is not visible, given the size of a few fractions of millimeters.

Polyester car paint flakes

There are sequins of all colors, often bright and shimmering colors, which are created by oxidation and surface metallization treatment by an electrical process. The operation is now well mastered and the yields are very economical, which means that polyester sequins are inexpensive materials, the price of which per kilo in Asia ranges from 5 to 20 euros.

Several hundred tons are consumed each year around the world, in various fields of industry, mainly decoration. Knowing how to play with light and create colors from nothing, but simply just a reflection of light and the most successful trick of polyester sequins: they are able to catch the eye and the colored reflections have a hypnotic power that transports us into the imagination.

For this reason, it is most often found in Christmas decorations and shop windows. If you are looking for polyester sequins, discover our color card which includes more than 170 different types of colors, shapes, sizes, sold wholesale, in 25 kg barrels at the most interesting price on the market in Europe.

How to use glitter ?

Whether it's wood, plastic, fabric, or metal, it's always possible to cover with glitter if you have the right projection technique. Most often, this is by gluing them to the surface using simple glue.
Often the glitter, to be evenly distributed, is thrown with air onto the surface where the glue is. It then creates a shiny colored surface, very economical, in an easy and fast way for industrialists.

Fields of use and performance of polyester sequins

We also find them in the windows of clothing, objects, and even luxury, with the world of fashion perfume. The consumption of flakes is around 100 g per square meter, when the surface is filled : counting a price of 20 to 30 euros per kilo, the yield is therefore a maximum of three euros per square meter, which is all quite economical for this quality of finish. You should know that the smaller these sequins are, the more these sequins are expensive, because the cutting work becomes more complicated.

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