While fiber can be produced for a better price than copper wire equivalents, they’re still not easy or cheap to manufacture. Silica fibers require spinning tubes on a lathe, which requires the ...

Each shuttle is covered by more than 24,000 of the six- by six-inch blocks. Most of the tiles are made of silica fibers, which are produced from high-grade sand. Silica is an excellent insulator ...

The SILTEX ® silica fabrics and textiles are composed of high purity, high strength 96% amorphous silica fibers, and are optimal in applications where E-glass fabrics would generally fail.