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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.

The ever-growing importance of waterborne technology has also created exciting innovation opportunities for metallic pigment manufacturers.

Surfactants are both the enabling chemistry as well as valuable formulating tools in aqueous pigment dispersion.

In addition to highly sustainable production, the Ningbo process provides iron oxide red pigments with exceptional coloristic behavior that exceeds any currently available iron oxide pigment in the market.

A sampling of some of the technologies that will be on display at the 2016 American Coatings Show.

As either a coatings manufacturer, appliance company or someone in the market looking for an appliance, how can we better understand color and be on top of the latest color trends in the appliance market?