Welcome to The Schundler Company's Website

The Schundler Company is the oldest and largest producer of perlite and vermiculite on the east coast of the United States, and maintains the largest and most comprehensive site about perlite and vermiculite on the internet.

If you want to learn about The Schundler Company, or about perlite and vermiculite, please read on. With over 170 pages and growing, this web site is probably the most comprehensive source of information about the many uses of perlite and vermiculite.

Operating four vermiculite furnaces, three perlite furnaces, and three batching lines, the company produces both regular expanded aggregates and products, and special cementitious mixes for the construction and fire-proofing industries. We hope you will wander through our site and learn more about perlite and vermiculite, and how they are used throughout the world today!

Commercial Greenhouse Production with Perlite and Vermiculite Soil Mixes

In the following eight sections, there are pages of helpful information and links about perlite and vermiculite, and the many usesof perlite and vermiculite. We hope you will contact us if you have any questions:

• Company Profile and Information --includes an Aerial Photograph, Directions to our plant, and Information about our Fuel Surcharges, and News about the recent sale of the The Schundler Company to Normiska, USA.

• Basic Perlite Information and Data --technical Information about Perlite and MSDS Sheets

• Basic Vermiculite Information and Data--technical Information about Vermiculite and MSDS Sheets ,
  
  • and articles and reports like:
  • The Confusion about Vermiculite and Asbestos, or
  • An Overview of Analytical Testing of Vermiculite from Palabora, South Africa

• Horticultural Uses of Perlite and Vermiculite --has over 65 useful PLANT GUIDES and several new Stormwater Management Designs. With a link to Vermiculite.Com ---our site for hobbyists and homeowners who want to purchase small bags of perlite or vermiculite.

• Swimming Pool Construction and Maintenance --with Construction Guides and Coverage Charts

• Industrial Uses of Perlite and Vermiculite--has over 30 SCHUNDLER PRODUCT GUIDES

• Construction Uses of Perlite and Vermiculite --Over 25 pages of Mix Designs, Coverage Charts, and Listings of U-Values & R-Values including Product Guides and Application Information for
  • Schundler Classic 5 LD Fireproofing

• Unusual, Unique and Unexpected Uses of Perlite and Vermiculite -- Fifteen imaginative uses which defy normal classification! (This is a collection of links and uses which don't conform to any of the groups above! So if you know of any that we should add, please let us know!)