Articles Tagged with ''Effect Pigments''

Eight golden rules have been compiled to ensure effective color creation.

Merck KGa, Darmstadt, Germany, has named blue-glow purple as its effect color of the year for 2017.

As with all effect pigments, the use of polychromatic pigments requires an intensive examination of illumination and observation geometries, if useful and interesting color creations are to be produced.

Frost & Sullivan recognized Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a science and technology company, with the 2016 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership, based on its recent analysis of the automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) pigments market.

A gold that is elegant and unobtrusive at the same time, and a bold reddish brown with the shine of metal, Firemist® Velvet Gold and Firemist Velvet Russet complete the Firemist Velvet series.

Valspar Corp.’s new Nova color family offers rich, deep hues with an intense sparkle as part of the recently introduced Fluropon^® Effects line of 70 percent PVDF architectural coatings.

Free of APEOs and VOCs, HYDROXAL E is a new generation of aluminum pigments for general industrial coatings.

Sun Chemical will expand its global capacity for the production of Benda-Lutz^® metallic effect pigments designed for autoclaved aerated concrete, printing inks, coatings and plastics by more than 40 percent.

BASF announced it will expand its capacity for the production of Paliocrom^® effect pigments in Ludwigshafen, Germany, by more than 20 percent by 2017.

This article highlights the aesthetic and functional properties of a new range of aluminum pigments designed specifically for architectural powder coatings.