The producing and selling of "silicate of soda" (sodium silicate) started in 1861 to replace resin in soap formulations. When the American Civil War cut off supplies of resin from the pine forests in the southern states to soap-makers in the North, silicate sales grew rapidly.

Sodium silicate was made then as now by fusing sand and sodium carbonate in a high-temperature furnace. Markets for sodium silicate soon expanded beyond soap making to silicate adhesives for corrugated paperboard and many other applications.

In the twentieth century, the industry has grown by development of a lot of new products. Through advanced research and development efforts, it has been intro-duced novel products, including silica gels, silica catalysts, hollow micro-spheres, synthetic zeolites, zeolites catalysts, and other complex silica derivatives.

The silicates have many useful properties and meets a wide range of characteris-tics to various applications needs. These characteristics are expressed as several basic properties, principally SiO2:K2O / SiO2: Na2O ratio, with different percent of solutions, solids, density, and viscosity.

Together with expertise, experience and advice from leading Norwegian universi-ties and PQ Norge Silicates AS, Maynor AS has gained very high quality proven products.

With this high level of innovation, we can guarantee that our products are of con-sistently high quality. All raw materials are of Norwegian origin, made from well-tested components and purchased from well-reputed ISO-approved suppliers.