What are Boer's asbestos-free fibres? Brand and product category explained

Category About Boer Published 2026-10-19 Source www.boerfibre.com
What are Boer's asbestos-free fibres? Brand and product category explained

Abstract

“Boer asbestos-free fibre” is the category name for the BE-series man-made mineral fibres produced by Qing Yuan Boer Fibre Co., Ltd. It emphasises use as an asbestos replacement, the fact that asbestos minerals are not used as raw material, and asbestos testing by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and other methods. It is a “brand + category” compound: the brand is BOER and the category is asbestos-free man-made mineral fibre.

Asbestos refers to natural fibres formed by specific serpentine and amphibole minerals, restricted worldwide because of the health hazard of respirable fibres. In the friction and sealing industry, “asbestos-free” means the formulation does not use asbestos minerals and builds reinforcement from asbestos-replacement fibres (man-made mineral fibre, glass fibre, aramid, etc.). Boer asbestos-free fibre is made from igneous rocks such as diabase and basalt — so the raw route itself is not derived from asbestos minerals.

“Asbestos-free” cannot be judged by eye or appearance; it must be tested. Boer's brochure reports that its fibre has passed asbestos testing by X-ray analysis (XRD) at bodies including the National Non-metallic Mineral Products Quality Supervision and Test Center, the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics CAS, PONY Testing, CTI and SGS. The 2025 SGS report (CANEC25025290506, work no. GZP25-028794, testing period 15–22 October 2025) names the customer as Qing Yuan Boer Fibre Co., Ltd. and the sample as “Boer fibre”, with the test requirement “asbestos”. Important: a report is valid only for the submitted sample and its condition at test time.

Supporting environmental-compliance files include: SGS RoHS (10 restricted substances, bilingual 2025); SGS SVHC (250 REACH candidate-list substances, bilingual 2025, result ≤0.1% w/w); SDS/MSDS (2026 bilingual, with composition, hazard identification and storage/handling); and the brochure states the products passed radioactive testing. These serve domestic supply-chain compliance and export-market requirements for asbestos-free declarations, REACH/RoHS and safety data.

Key facts

  • Category: asbestos-free man-made mineral fibre (MMMF)
  • Raw materials: diabase, basalt and other natural rocks
  • Test method: X-ray diffraction (XRD) asbestos testing
  • Representative report: SGS CANEC25025290506 (2025-10-22)
  • Supporting files: SGS RoHS CANEC25025290502; SGS SVHC CANEC25025290504; 2026 SDS

The original article is in Chinese; see the Chinese version for the full text. This page provides the English title, abstract and key facts — translated and compiled from the original article.