Paint and Coating Pigments

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

IR pigments allow paint formulators and coatings chemists to develop differentiated and functional coatings.

Blue is everywhere and universally loved. But this hue was apparently invisible for most of human history.

This article highlights Benda-Lutz® COMPAL WS, a new range of nonhazardous, aluminum pigment concentrates designed specifically for long-term stability in waterborne coatings and inks.

ED pigments offer paint manufacturers best-in-class performance in both waterborne and solventborne applications while reducing production time, saving money and decreasing energy consumption.

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.

This article will summarize TiO2 market conditions in China in 2015 as well as some of the results of those conditions.

Given the increased sales volumes so far in 2016, the TiO2 market has begun to feel tighter than it has in years, which is providing confidence to some producers that the worst is behind the industry for the near term.

Results show that the new additive performs on a very high level with a broad range of iron oxide pigments.

More than 550 exhibitors displayed their latest developments in raw materials, laboratory and production equipment, testing and measuring equipment, and services for the coatings industry during the 2016 American Coatings Show.