Mineral wool is any fibrous material formed by spinning or drawing molten mineral or rock materials such as slag and ceramics. Mineral wool is also known as mineral fiber, mineral cotton, mineral fibre, man-made mineral fibre (MMMF), and man-made vitreous fiber (MMVF). “Man-made mineral fibre (MMMF) is a generic name used to describe an inorganic fibrous material manufactured primarily from glass, rock, minerals, slag and processed inorganic.Specific mineral wool products are stone wool and slag wool.
Stone wool is a furnace product of molten rock at a temperature of about 1600 °C. Our rock wool fiber HB21 is made of basalt, diabase and dolomite and made into inorganic silicate fiber by blowing or centrifugation at high temperature. Original color of pure rock wool is gery-green. In order to make it better combined with other friction materials, we will add some liquid phenolic resins in the curing furnac, then it turned to yellow-green. After length fixing and slag removal(non-fibrous particle called “shot”in the fiber), the final product is a mass of fine, intertwined fibres with a typical diameter of 2 to 6 micrometers.