In response to demand for BASF's effect pigments, which are manufactured and sold under the Colors & Effects® brand, the company announced that by 2020 it will extend its production capacity for Paliocrom® effect pigments.
The Ferro Pigment Division has chosen Terra Firma to represent Ferro's full product line in the Southeast and the acquired Cappelle line of technologies in both the northeastern and southeastern United States.
Smithers Rapra has released a new market report that predicts 191,881 tonnes of high-performance pigments and effect and specialty pigments will be consumed in 2018.
The University of Alicante Research Group in Vision and Color has developed a novel procedure for obtaining natural hybrid nanopigments able to optimize the optical, thermal and mechanical properties of the composite materials they are applied to.