Potters Industries, LLC is the world’s leading manufacturer of glass microspheres offered in a wide range of different chemis ... tries, sizes, and surface coatings, allowing for use across a variety of applications and end-uses. Our glass microspheres provide the necessary retroreflectivity in traffic safety markings; clean, peen and strengthen metals; provide light weighting, dimensional strengthening, and reduction of thermal conductivity in plastics and polymers; reduce thermal expansion and improve flow in paints and coatings; reduce friction and weight in oil drilling; and improve special conductivity applications in electronics. For more than one hundred years, we have listened to the needs of our customers, developed new materials, refined technology, helped establish new standards and introduced them globally. Our manufacturing, sales and distribution network serves every part of the world, and we continue to expand and grow through safe and responsible innovation. Diversification by geography is important in serving our customers as well as expanding our product applications. We have established a pattern for growth, using export sales to develop a market, then adding local manufacturing capabilities as the market matures. The successful implementation of this growth strategy has resulted in a global market infrastructure with unparalleled close customer contact and service response time. We are focused on cultivating markets and developing new products and applications, working closely with customers to improve performance and service. With this commitment, our employees forge strong relationships with our customers, help them define their needs and prove the value of Potters as a trusted partner. read more