ECKART America Corporation
Painesville, OH, USA
Phone: 502-365-8033
Fax: 440-954-7612
Email: jonathan.lawniczak@altana.com
Website: www.eckart.net

Silvershine 400 Series Silver Dollar Aluminum Pigment
Attributes/comments: Silvershine 400 series represents the newest development in silver dollar aluminum pigment technology, offering the best combination of brilliance, metallic character and hiding power. The unique properties of Silvershine 400 series result from proprietary milling processes and carefully selected raw materials. These unique properties include: highly brilliant silver colors and impressive flop behavior; fine and medium-fine pigments with little scattering properties; extremely narrow particle size distribution; excellent metallic character when tinted with organic pigments; and very smooth, glossy and structureless metallic effects.

STAPA SDF 7-2141 Silver Dollar Aluminum Pigment
Attributes/comments: STAPA SDF 7-2141 is a new non-leafing silver dollar pigment that provides superior opacity and brilliance. Enabled by proprietary milling processes, these medium-coarse flakes provide high brilliance, superior hiding and excellent flop. Applications include, automotive OEM & refinish, automotive trim, wheel coatings, consumer electronics and general industrial.

Kuncai Americas
Worthington, OH, USA
Phone: 614-547-7484
Website: www.kuncaius.com

Setallic
Attributes/comments: Setallic encompasses the beauty and vitality of the sunrise with pearlescent pigments that exhibit magnificent orange and red hues. The essence of daybreak is captured with intensive color saturation to create unmatched dimensional visual effects. Setallic exceeds automotive standards through dazzling metallic coating and superior weather performance. This product inspires aesthetic imagination and may be utilized for automotive, general industrial and interior decorative paints. The superior synthetic mica substrate pigment has incredibly high purity, and brightness. The Setallic series is made using the latest-environment friendly production process, and is locally stocked in the USA.

XillaMaya
Attributes/comments: XillaMaya is the newest generation of pearlescent pigments from Kuncai. This series offers highly reflective, intense glittering effects with extraordinary color saturation and excellent hiding performance. Kuncai has developed a novel, cost effective and eco-friendly process that gives a breathtaking and unprecedented tridimensional high sparkle effect. Xillamaya features finely controlled particle size distribution along with specialized processed platelets of aluminosilicate that promote high transparency. Creative colors and brilliant shimmer can be achieved with this product. This series is a milestone to the product development of high-end automotive coatings that exceeds industry standards.

Lansco Colors
Pearl River, NY, USA
Phone: 845-507-5950
Fax: 845-735-2787
Email: frank@pigments.com
Website: www.pigments.com

CB 55 SI
Attributes/comments: Lansco Colors is the sole NAFTA distributor of aluminum pigments from Carlfors Bruk, a Swedish manufacturer of high quality pigments for the coatings, plastics and ink industries.  Below are two new developments we are introducing.

CB 55 SI is a new sieved grade (55 micron particle size) within our new series of silica coated products.  The silica coating provides superior spraying characteristics in either Tribo or Corona powder coating systems by providing superior charge and charge separation to help eliminate problems such as picture framing, as well as enhancing the chemical resistance of the metallic appearance.  CB 55 SI is recommended for use in any indoor or outdoor powder coating application.

CBright 200S NL 65
Attributes/comments: CBright 200S NL 65 is a new non-leafing grade. Non-leafing pigments are used where good substrate and intercoat adhesion is required. The CBright Non-leafing grades are cost effective and highly brilliant pigment grades based on a proprietary corn flake technique. The CBright 200S NL 65 is used for coil and can-coating products as well as coatings of automotive products such as steel plates, nuts and screw used on the underbody of the car or in the engine compartment.

Schlenk Metallic Pigments GmbH
Roth, Germany
Phone: 49-9171-808-255
Fax: 49-9171-808-200
Email: Michael.bauer@schlenk.de
Website: www.schlenk.com

Zenexo
Attributes/comments: Zenexo represents a new generation of colored aluminium effect pigments, UTPs (Ultra- Thin Pigments). Our first product, Zenexo GoldenShine 21 YY, is supplied in a powder delivery form, which is safe-to-use, easy to transport, easy to store, easy to formulate and provides outstanding coloristic features, i.e. hiding power, flop and gloss.

MultiFlect
Attributes/comments: MultiFlect effect pigments have been marketed successfully since 2016. With MultiFlect, polychromatic effects can be realized in coatings and plastics. When the object moves or the observer’s point of view changes, a broad spectrum of interference colors are perceived, resulting in eye-catching rainbow appearance under directional lighting.

Sun Chemical Performance Pigments
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Phone: 513-681-5950 or 800-543-2323
Email: Steve.Hamilton@sunchemical.com
Website: www.sunchemical.com

Benda-Lutz Royal liquid ink concentrates
Attributes/comments: Benda-Lutz ROYAL is a family of highly pigmented metallic ink concentrates available in standardized silver and gold color spaces as well as chrome-like silver for premium label and packaging applications.  These concentrates are produced using optimized pigment-to-binder ratios and incorporation methods to maximize their brilliance and metallic effect.  The high pigment content allow formulators to quickly develop fully customized finished inks to meet the precise needs of the individual end-user.  Concentrates are available in traditional solvent and zero-VOC UV-curable chemistries for a variety of substrates including OPP, PET, PE, paper and foil.