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January 11, 2021
By: Kerry Pianoforte
Editor, Coatings World
BASF Colors and Effects GmbH Ludwigshafen, Germany Phone: +49 (0)621 60-0 colors-effects@basf.com www.colors-effects.basf.com Types of pigments: Blacks (Carbon Black, complex inorganic black, pigment black); Blues (complex inorganic blue, idanthrone blue, phthalocyanine blue); Greens (phthalocyanine, complex inorganic green); Iron oxide (yellow iron oxide, red/brown iron oxide); Metallic (aluminum pastes and powders, gold bronze powders, zinc dust and flakes); Reds; Specialty (pearlescent mica); Yellow and Oranges Product name: Pacific Orange EH 3963 (L 2828) Attributes/comments: Lead free and highly chromatic orange for demanding powder coatings. Merges the beneficial properties of organic and inorganic components. Outstanding weather resistance, good opacity, high temperature and superior chemical resistance. Product name: Lumina Royal Exterior Blue Russet EH3173 (S6903D) Attributes/comments: Bluish russet, semi-transparent effect pigment with intense color, exceptional chromaticity and brilliancy for automotive coatings. Strong sparkle provides attractive eye-catching appearance. Exterior grade targets applications with demanding weathering requirements Brilliant Group, Inc. Richmond, CA, USA Phone: 415-771-4757 info@fluorescentcolor.com www.fluorescentcolor.com Type of pigments: Fluorescent Burgess Pigment Co. Sandersville, GA, USA Phone: 478-552-2544 info@burgesspigment.com www.burgesspigment.com Type of pigments: Extender (kaolin, aluminum silicate) Product name: OPTIWHITE UF Attributes/comments: OPTIWHITE UF is a high brightness, flash calcined kaolin clay to maximize wet and dry hide, extend TiO2 or opaque polymer while improving touch up, scrub and sheen. Cabot Corporation Billerica, MA, USA Phone: 800-462-2313 performance.na@cabotcorp.com www.cabotcorp.com/solutions/products-plus/specialty-carbon-blacks/high-color Type of pigments: Blacks (carbon black) Product name: EMPEROR 1800 Attributes/comments: Designed for water-based systems, the EMPEROR 1800 carbon black allows coatings manufacturers to achieve deep, jet black color while minimizing dispersants and dispersing time, resulting in lower overall formulation costs. Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. Charlotte, NC, USA Phone: 312-843-5332 Om_pi@clariant.com www.pigments.clariant.com Types of pigments: Blacks (carbon black), Blues (phthalocyanine), Corrosion (Hostatint A-100); Extender (dispersions); Greens (phthalocyanine), Reds; Yellow and oranges; whites Product name: Hostatint SI Attributes/comments: A new range of pigment dispersions for solvent based industrial coatings, engineered for unparalleled compatibility across coatings bases and consistent color matching of industry standard shades (RAL, Federal Standards, others). Product name: Hostaperm Yellow H3G 02 Attributes/comments: A “Next Generation Pigment” Yellow 154, with a lower cost of use and a higher color strength in both waterborne and solvent borne coatings than other available grades. Crenovo International Limited Wuxi, China Phone: +86 510 82203206 colorant@crenovo.com www.crenovo.com Product name: Novoprime Violet RLS (PV23) Attributes/comments: Combining fiery red and calm blue, violet grants noble and mystery feelings to your products, i.e. a gorgeous new car… or you are still worrying about durability and viscosity? Extraordinary Novoprime Violet RLS, deliver high chroma as well as excellent weather and solvent resistance to your car. Product name: Novoprime Pink E (PR122) Attributes/comments: Novoprime Pink E is a quinacridone red pigments, highly recommended for those applications that require long durability, high heat resistance, good transparency and excellent dispersibility, like automotive coatings, decorative coatings, gravure printing inks, textiles and high performance plastics. Day-Glo Color Corp. Cleveland, OH, USA Phone: 800-432-9456 dayglo.com Types of pigments: Specialty (Fluorescent pigments and dispersions), blacks, blues, extenders, greens, iron oxide, metallic, reds, yellow and orange, whites Product Name: EFL-17 Lightfast Fluorescent Yellow Pigment Attributes/comments: A solid state fluorescent yellow pigment with excellent lightfastness properties. Recommended for outdoor use in coating applications such as Special Effect Paints, Traffic Paints, Safety Paints and Automotive Refinish. Product Name: ECO Formaldehyde Free Fluorescent Pigments Attributes/comments: ECO pigments are based on an entirely new polymer technology that is free of formaldehyde and have the added benefit of being produced with recycled plastic materials in the USA. DCL Corporation Toronto, Canada Phone: 416-791-4200 Fax: 416-497-6024 www.pigments.com Types of pigments: Blacks (carbon black), Blues (basic dye pigments, phthalocyanine, indanthrone, milori, ultramarine); Greens (phthalocyanine, chromium oxide); Iron oxide (synthetic, micronized, transparent, zinc ferrite); Metallic (aluminum); Reds (toluidine, naphthol, DPP, metal salt azo reds, anthraquinone, quinacridone, perylene, rhodamine); Specialty (pearlescent); Yellows and Oranges (benzimidazolone, diarylide, bismuth vanadate, hansa, dianisidine, DNA, isoindolinone, isoindoline, quinophthalone); Whites (titanium dioxide) Product name: 7854 Benzimidazolone Yellow, PY.154 Attributes/comments: Yellow 7854 is a high performance green-shade yellow for use in high-end industrial coatings applications. Its superb weatherfastness and chemical resistance make it well suited for high-quality Indistrial and automotive applications including OEM, Refinish and Fleet. Product name: Yellow 3GMXA, 2GTAA & RMXA, Bismuth Vanadate, PY.184 Attributes/comments: Yellow 3GMXA, 2GTAA & RMXA represent our new Super Alkali fast Bismuth Vanadate Range for architectural coatings. These pigments allow formulators to develop high PVC coatings based on Bismuth Vanadate pigments with high colour strength, bright chromatic shades, excellent hiding power and durability. These products are suitable for architectural, industrial, coil, and powder coatings. Decorative Color & Chemical Inc. Doylestown, PA, USA Phone: 215-345-8427 info@deccolor.com www.deccolor.com Types of pigments: Blacks (carbon black); Blues (phtalo blue 15:6, ultramarine); Greens (phthalo); Reds; Specialty (high-performance); Yellows & Oranges Product name: DecoKat cationic pigments (liquid) Attributes/comments: Available in process colors for use in paints, inks and coatings. ECKART America Corporation Louisville, KY, USA Phone: 502-775-4241 info.eckart.america.ky@altana.com www.eckart.net Product name: STAPA NDF 3090 Attributes/comments: Fine grade, silver dollar Aluminum pigment provides sparkle and brilliance for automotive coatings. This 9-micron flake enables a fine and bright look with excellent flop and the shear resistance associated with the ECKART NDF family of products. Product name: STAPA SDF 6-900 Attributes/comments: Fine non- leafing Aluminum cornflake combines superior hiding with a brightness that rivals coarser pigments. Hiding/brightness combination enables a lower pigment loading for more formulating flexibility. Enhanced value-in-use makes STAPA SDF 6-900 an excellent Aluminum filler pigment. Ferro Corporation Cleveland, OH, USA Phone: +34 933435750 orders-nubiola.usa@ferro.com www.ferro.com Types of pigments: Complex inorganic blacks; Blues (Complex Inorganic Blue, Phthalocyanine Blue, Ultramarine Blue); Corrosion inhibiting; Greens (Complex Inorganic Green, Chrome Green, Phthalocyanine Green); Iron oxide (EBlack Iron Oxides, red/brown iron oxides – natural & synthetic, Yellow Iron Oxides); Reds (Bon Red, Naphthol Red, Quinacridone Red, Quinacridone Violet, Red Lakes, Rhodamine, Toluidine Red); Specialty (Bismuth Vanadates); Yellow and oranges (Chrome yellow, complex inorganic, diarylide orange toner, diarylide yellow toner, Hansa yellow, inorganic Bismuth Vanadate, Molybdate orange) Product name: ECO-LYSOPAC HYBRID PIGMENTS Attributes/comments: Ferro’s Eco-Lysopac hybrid pigments are specially formulated to provide a one-product solution for lead chromate pigment replacement. Our hybrid pigments are also a one-pigment solution for a specified shade and can bridge the gap between price and performance without neglecting environmental consideration. Product name: Eco-lysopac Yellow 9926C Attributes/comments: Eco-lysopac Yellow 9926C: a yellow shade mono-pigment solution for use in liquid road marking General Carbon Company Los Angeles, CA, USA Phone: 800-581-2414 customerservice@generalcarboncompany.com www.generalcarboncompany.com Type of pigments: blacks (lampblack, superfine) Product name: Lampblack Superfine No. 6, No.3, No. 30 Attributes/comments: Lampblack dry black pigment, CAS 1333-86-4, SIC 2816 inorganic pigments, ASTM INT D-209 Kowa American Corp. New York, NY, USA Phone: 212-303-7800 chemical@kowa.com www.kowa.com Types of pigments: Metallic (aluminum pastes, leafing and non-leafing); Whites (Barium sulfate, surface treated and microfine grades). Product name: Barifine BF and Bariclear Series Attributes/comments: Barifine microfine barium sulfate are used to enhance pigment orientation of aluminum flake and pearlescent pigments. These microparticles disperse the pigments during application to cure flattened or parallel pigment coatings. LANXESS Corp., Inorganic Pigments Group Pittsburgh, PA, USA Phone: 800-LANXESS www.bayferrox.us Types of pigments: Blacks (iron oxide), Iron oxide (red, yellow, black), Reds (iron oxide), Specialty (chrome oxide green, mixed metal oxides, zinc ferrite), Yellows (iron oxide) PentaCarbon GmbH Haltern am See, Germany Phone: +49 2364 899 79 70 contact@pentacarbon.de www.pentacarbon.de Type of pigments: Blacks (lamp blacks) Product name: Low PAH carbon black PFE Product name: Super conductive carbon black Schlenk Metallic Pigments GmbH Ashland, MA, USA Phone: 508-881-9147 customerservice@schlenkusa.com www.schlenk.com Type of pigments: Metallic (aluminum, gold bronze) Product name: Zenexo Goldenshine WB21YY, Goldenwhite 21 YS Attributes/comments: Unique colored aluminum pigments based on ultrathin pigment technology offering outstanding durable gold effects with tremendous hiding. Available as dry safe powder for use in many applications including powder coatings. Product name: Alustar UTM series Attributes/comments: These new pigments make reflecting, almost mirror-like effects possible and have outstanding coverage. These extremely thin aluminum pigments are based on a technology demanding manufacturing process. The Shepherd Color Company Cincinnati, OH, USA Phone: 513-874-0714 salesusa@shepherdcolor.com www.shepherdcolor.com Types of pigments: Blacks (Arctic IR Black, Inorganic Black, FDA Black); Blues (Cobalt Blue, YInMn Blue); Greens (Cobalt green, Chromium oxide); Specialty (Starlight silver-coated glass flakes); Yellow and oranges (NTP Yellow and RTZ Orange, Titanate yellows) Product name: Black 10P925 Attributes/comments: Black 10P925, a cost-effective IR Black colorant for packaging that can reflect IR wavelengths in recycling sorting facilities, so these plastics may be recycled. Non-magnetic with a jet masstone color. Product name: Green 10G655 Attributes/comments: Green 10G655, a standard PG50 specially formulated and produced to meet EU labelling requirements, while maintaining a bright, chromatic green shade, and is more chromatic than other inorganic green pigments. Silberline Manufacturing Company, Inc. Tamaqua, PA, USA Phone: 800-348-4824 technology@silberline.com www.silberline.com Product name: SILBERCOTE AQ-G ALUMINUM PIGMENT Attributes/comments: Use in automotive & industrial waterborne coatings markets. Inhibited granules using silica-encapsulation technology. Zero VOC, excellent gassing stability, high metal content, easy dispersion, economical vs. standard silica pastes. Sudarshan North America Wood-Ridge, NJ, USA Phone: 201-300-2770 usa@sudarshan.com www.sudarshan.com Types of pigments: Blues (CPC), reds (QA, Azo, Naphtol, DPP); specialty (mica); yellows and oranges (Azo, mono Azo, Benizimidazolone, Diazo, Isoindoline, Isoindolinone) Product name: Sudaperm Yellow 2926C and Sudaperm Yellow 2929C/PY 110 Attributes/comments: Sudaperm Yellow 2926C is a semitransparent Isoindolinone red shade high-performance pigment with outstanding light and weather fastness. Most suitable for automotive metallic finishes as well as shading component for high-performance coatings. Sudaperm Yellow 2929C is a very transparent Isoindolinone green shade high-performance pigment with outstanding light and weather fastness. It is targeted towards automotive and high-performance coatings. Product name: Sumica Regal Blue 41431NXR 10-50 µm Attributes/comments: Sumica Regal Blue 41431NXR is chrome-free and very opaque mica in the 10-50 µm range. It provides a smoky, yet deep blue color and is targeted to the automotive OEM market, although there is a lot of excitement for this mica outside the traditional auto spectrum. Sun Chemical Performance Pigments Cincinnati, OH, USA Phone: 513-681-5950 or 800-543-2323 Steve.Hamilton@sunchemical.com www.sunchemical.com Types of pigments: Blacks (carbon black); Blues (indanthrone blue, phthalocyanine blue, PMA/PTA Toners/Lake); Corrision inhibiting (zinc flake, zinc paste); Greens (phthalocyanine green); Iron oxide pigments (black iron oxide), Metallic pigments (aluminum paste, aluminum powders, gold bronze powders); Reds (bon red/maroon, lithol rubine, naphthol red, arylide red and maroon, perylene maroon, red, scarlet and violet, quinacridone maroon, red and violet, toluidine red); Specialty pigments (color shifting, color variable); Yellows and Orange (diarylide, mono-azo, quinophtalone, isoindolinone, Ni-azo, benzimidazolone, bismuth vanadate, pyrazolone, pyrazolo-quinazolone) Product name: Benda Lutz COMPAL PC Attributes/comments: A highly concentrated aluminum pellet for TGIC and TGIC-free polyester powder coatings for bonding and dry blending, COMPAL PC is dust-free and not classified as hazardous for shipping and storage. Trust Chem USA Palm Coast, FL, USA Phone: 386-302-5925 support@trustchemusa.com www.trustchemusa.com Types of pigments: Blacks; blues (Idanthrone Blue, Iron Blue; Phthalocyanine Blue, PMA/PTA Toners/Lack); iron oxide; reds (BON Red/Maroon, Lithol Red, Metallized Azo Red, Naphthol Red, Perylene Red, Quiracridone Maroon, Quiracridone Red, Quiracridone Violet, Red Lake C, Rhodamine, Sodium Lithol, Toluidine Red); yellows and oranges (Diarylide Orange Toner, Diarylide Yellow Toner, Hansa Yellow, Orthonitraniline Orange). Product name: TCR17702 Attributes/comments: TCR17702 is primarily used in industrial paints, in spin dyeing, and in polyolefin and PVC coloration. TCR17702 exhibits great lightfastness and weatherfastness properties and can be used in automotive O.E.M. finishes and refinishes. Product name: TCR20205 Attributes/comments: TCR20205 offers the benefits of uniform crystal distribution, small particle size, easy dispersion and good resistance. TCR20205 meets the requirements of various laws and regulations and have been widely used in numerous different plastic spinning fields.
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