Offering intense sparkle and powerful luster, Xirallic® effect pigments are especially suited for use in automotive coatings due to their fine particle size and narrow particle size distribution.
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.
A quinacridone magenta pigment, Hostaperm® Pink E2Y has high color strength and excellent light and weather fastness at a wide range of concentrations.
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.
The use of mixture statistics with formulation development is valuable because it provides a clear, concise path to obtain an optimum formula within a practical number of trials.