Silvering solutions

We manufacture a complete range of high-quality silvering solutions. Our patented formulas excel in being both extremely efficient in reducing material waste while effectively providing consistent and uniform silver coatings.

Customer support

Consultation and customer support are provided by our expert personnel and their years of experience in the field of glass silvering.

Research and development

After years of development and testing, we know exactly how our solutions behave in each and every environment and can adapt them to various uses and requirements according to each customer’s needs.

Company

Stainless steel reactors make it possible to mix 15,000 liters of reducing solution in one batch.

EGO 93 is a 100% Czech owned and operated family business founded in 1993 by graduates of the Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, the Czech Republic.
First starting out in waste handling and processing, particularly the recovery of precious metals in wastewater, we moved on to the production of silver salts and solutions used in chemical glass silvering.
Currently we primarily focus on the development and production of highly effective and environmentally friendly chemical solutions used in the production of mirrors, costume jewellery, Christmas decorations and structural glass.
We produce chemical preparations such as sensitizers, activators, silver solutions, reducers, passivators and adhesives- all are manufactured in-house according to our patented formulas. Our new supersensitizing and superactivating solutions are under patent protection in the Czech Republic and are awaiting patent approval in various other countries as well.
Our supersensitizing and superactivating solutions offer groundbreaking efficiency in the reduction of silvering materials required by up to 90% (compared to existing solutions on the market), while ensuring homogenous silver plating in a thin, uniform layer. This offers huge reductions in cost by not only diminishing the amount of waste materials used in the silvering process, but in subsequent wastewater treatment costs as well - silvering materials go farther, produce a higher quality product, and generate significantly less waste, drastically reducing operating expenses.
We have complete control of the quality of the raw materials used in the manufacturing process. We have our own in-house ammonia water production facility, were it is made from distilled ammonia and demineralized water. This ensures that the ammonia water is of particularly high quality, necessary in the production of top-quality silvering solutions and reducing agents.
Our stainless-steel reactors allow us to mix 15,000 liters of reducing agent (component B) with 10,000 liters of silvering solution (component A) in a single batch; two operators can mix and package such an enormous volume and have it ready for shipping within a 48-hour timeframe.
Thanks to years of research, development and testing, we know exactly how our solutions behave in every environment and can adapt them to various applications and requirements according to each customer’s needs. Our years of experience in mirror production, and more specifically in the glass silvering industry, allows us to provide our customers with top-of-the-line support and consultation services.

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Audit Report issued by AGC Flat Glass Czech a.s.

Patent 309565 - Supersensitizing Solution

Patent 309595 - Superactivating Solution

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Products

Our new products that significantly reduce the carbon footprint.

Supersensitizer solution

Used
to sensitize the glass surface in mirror production and in other silvering applications
Product name:
Sensitizing solution
Packaging:
1-Litre Plastic Bottles,
20-Litre Plastic Canisters

Superactivator solution

Used
to activate the glass surface in mirror production and in other silvering applications
Packaging:
1-Litre Plastic Bottles

Supersensitizer solution

Our new chemical preparations have revolutionized mirror production and the glass silvering industry, offering significant environment benefits and economic advantages. In high-quality mirror production, the glass surface is required to be pre-treated. An acidic solution of tin dichloride has been used for this purpose for the past 200 years, but without any major innovations. This obsolete method ends up with a disproportionate amount of tin ions in the wastewater. This is why we came up with our new product – the Supersensitizer: a balanced solution of tin chloride.

This original formula reduces the amount of tin dichloride necessary to form a layer on the glass surface to only 10% of that previously needed with outdated, original tin dichloride solutions. Our concentrate replaces tin dichloride with a concentration of 1200 g SnCl2 . 2 H2O in one litre.
Using the concentrate do not require any changes to the application process nor alterations in dosage while the solution is diluted and applied to the glass. Tin is uniformly deposited in a thin, homogenous, single-atom layer on the glass surface, making the process extremely efficient. This layer is practically defect-free, making for better quality mirror production than when using an original tin dichloride solution.
100 times less tin ends up in the wastewater when using our new Supersensitizer solution, resulting in huge savings in wastewater treatment costs. The carbon footprint left by our product is 10 times smaller than when using standard tin dichloride.
Our new Supersensitizer is the perfect solution for mirror production in the 21st century.
This tinning solution is used during the subsequent passivation stage of mirror production, treating the silver layer before the silanization stage and the final application of cover paint.

Superactivator solution

The most commonly used activating solution in the past was an acidic palladium chloride solution. Palladium was deposited on the glass surface by undergoing disproportionation. Although a thin layer was left on the glass, the majority of the palladium used in the process ended up in the wastewater. Despite ensuring a higher quality of mirror production, this method proved to be not only inefficient, but also costly, due to the high price of palladium.
A far better solution is our Superactivator, an extremely cost-efficient method of depositing platinum metals such as palladium on glass.
Experience the advantages of:
- A lower environmental impact: 30 times less platinum-group metals in the wastewater- a significantly lower carbon footprint.
- A huge saving in costs: our Superactivator is significantly more convenient due to the huge reduction in material necessary for the process. You will start saving money from your first purchase simply from the amount of materials you save, and not having to rely on recovering platinum-group metals from the wastewater.
Better protection of the silver layer enables the use of water-based cover paints, which also offer huge environmental benefits in mirror production.

MS III Solutions Set

Used:
in the production of Christmas ornaments; silvering without sensitization
Product name:
MS III Silvering Concentrate - Part A
Product name:
MS III Alkaline Concentrate - Part B
Packaging:
1-Litre Plastic Bottles

MS IV Solutions Set

Used:
in silvering on a sensitized surface in mirror production
Product name:
MS IV Silvering Concentrate – Part A
Product name:
MS IV Alkaline Concentrate – Part B
Packaging:
20-Litre Plastic Canister; 500-Litre IBC Container, 1,000-Litre IBC Container

EGOSIL Silanizer solution

Used:
as an adhesion promoter between the metal layer and cover paint
Packaging:
1-Litre or 20-Litre Plastic Bottles

Silver nitrate p.a.

Used:
in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries
Packaging:
2.5 kg Plastic Can, 20 kg PE Bag

Contacts

EGO 93, s.r.o.
Resselovo nám. 76, Chrudim 537 01, Czech Republic
Registration no.: 49282093 EU VAT: CZ49282093
The company is registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Regional Court in Hradec Králové, Section C, File 4595

Warning: These products are not intended for retail sale!
A valid business license for handling poisons and corrosive substances is required.

Office

info@ego93.com

Foreign Sales

Filip Zajíček
+420 777 306 177
filip@ego93.com

Foreign Sales

Eva Kovariková
+420 608 448 766

Administration

Ing. Jana Molnárová
+420 603 274 684
molnarova@ego93.com

Retail

Eva Kosinová
+420 603 840 611
kosinova@ego93.com

Production Facility

Městec 84, Chroustovice 538 63
GPS coordinates: 49°57'7.97'’ N; 16°0'55.979'' E;