Orion is a worldwide supplier of carbon black, providing high-performance specialty carbon black to tint, colorize, and enhance the performance of polymers, plastics, paints and coatings, inks and toners, textile fibers, adhesives, and sealants. In powder coatings, carbon black not only provides colorimetric properties but also conductivity or UV stabilization, depending on the types of carbon black used.
Powder coatings are manufactured and applied without the use of water or organic solvents in the form of a free-flowing, dry powder. This leads to zero-VOC coatings, making them very attractive from an ecological point of view. Powder coatings are usually applied electrostatically, followed by heat curing. Resulting coatings provide much tougher surfaces than conventional liquid paints, providing excellent chemical and environmental resistance. It is estimated that the recyclability of coating powder, which does not adhere to the substrate, is up to 98%1.