Spacer for insulated glass units

A spacer for insulating glass units, wherein the spacer is formed having an inner surface, an outer surface and two lateral surfaces extending at either side of the spacer from the inner surface to the outer surface, and wherein the spacer comprises a profiled body,

• wherein the profiled body comprises two mutually spaced lateral faces running parallel to the a longitudinal direction of the profiled body, and a base body that extends between the lateral faces and has an outer and an inner face, wherein the profiled body is made from a plastics material and comprises at least in one part volume a quantity of particulate desiccant that is embedded in the plastics material,
• wherein the spacer has a coilability about an axis, perpendicularly to the lateral surfaces, such that there is a deflection of the spacer of approximately 1 mm or more, by comparison with an unloaded condition, wherein the deflection is determined at the outer surface of the spacer as the outer surface thereof lies on two supporting bodies at a loading span Ls of 100 mm, as measured in a longitudinal direction of the spacer, and with a force F of 50 N acting in a centre of the loading span Ls, wherein the force F is introduced into the spacer perpendicularly to a support plane defined by the two supporting bodies.