At this year’s American Coatings Show, specialty chemicals group LANXESS presented material protection products as well as organic and inorganic pigments that fulfill the most exacting of requirements.
The Shepherd Color Company, a global leading producer of high-performance complex inorganic color pigments, has a wide range of colors available to the coatings industry.
BASF announced that the company plans to stop making lead-chromate pigments by the end of 2014 and will concentrate on developing and producing alternative products.
The increasing pressure placed on the use of metals through legislation and risk assessment has significantly affected the way in which color targets are achieved.
Heucotech Ltd., a Heubach company, announced the appointment of Superior Materials, Inc., headquartered in Garden City, NY, as sales representative and distributor in the Northeast for all graphic art, specialty ink, coating, and adhesive industries effective January 1, 2012.
Chemists at Oregon State University have discovered that the same crystal structure they identified two years ago to create what may be the world’s best blue pigment can also be used with different elements to create other colors.
A new inorganic black pigment has been developed combining jetness and a neutral colour shade in reductions with an extraordinary IR-reflecting ability bridging the gap between existing products.
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.
