Sun Chemical Performance Pigments has opened a new manufacturing facility for pigment dispersions and on-site technical service labs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gulf Coast Chemical Corp., Tampa, FL, has entered into a sales distribution agreement with Chromaflo Technologies Corp., Ashtabula, OH, for pigment dispersions and related additives used in the production of thermoset plastics and coatings.
Emerald has focused on developing new technology for the coatings industry to meet the need for more environmentally friendly and high-performance materials.
The use of mixture statistics with formulation development is valuable because it provides a clear, concise path to obtain an optimum formula within a practical number of trials.
This article presents three separate types of polymeric dispersants that enable the formulator to create dispersions that utilize the properties of pigments to their upper limit.
