Bondyram Tie Layers, concentrated grades characterized by high-level grafted maleic anhydride
Blanc fixe is a white, soluble, heavy compound obtained either from the natural mineral barytes, or by chemical treatment of barium and sulfuric acid. It is highly transparent, improves printability. It is also used to form the pigment lithopone, which is also known as “blanc fixe”.
BLANC FIXE Fine Grade is a functional extender for paints and coatings with maximum gloss and brilliance standards. Despite its extremely fine particle size, BLANC FIXE fine grade can be dispersed relatively easy. BLANC FIXE fine grade is totally inert under normal conditions, and possesses high resistance to outdoor exposure and to chemicals. Thanks to its synthesis from high purity solutions, BLANC FIXE is itself extremely pure. This is apparent in its extremely high brightness and the total absence of catalytically active trace elements.
BLANC FIXE has only an extremely low grit content, since its crystals are obtained from solutions and are not produced by means of grinding processes. This also results in the complete avoidance of extremely fine particles, which would otherwise cause viscosity difficulties. Problematical agglomerates are virtually completely eliminated by means of micronization during this product‘s final processing stage.
BLANC FIXE micro generally improves coating properties:
It acts as a spacer for TiO2, coloured pigments and carbon blacks
It has an extremely fine particle size of around 0.7µm
It exhibits an extremely low binder demand
It is chemically inert
It is resistant to outdoor exposure
It has an extremely narrow particle size distribution
It has no grit contents
Applications:
Automotive coatings
Decorative coatings
Industrial Paints
High Solids
Pigment Pastes
Powder coating systems
Inks
Plastics
Cosmetics
Bismuth Vanadate is a lead and chrome-free Inorganic Pigment which provides a Greenish Yellow shade. It is classified as a non-hazardous Inorganic Pigment. The Greenish Yellow colour has been classified as Pigment Yellow 184/C.I. 771740 by the Colour Index System. Its basic chemical composition is BiVO4. Bismuth Vanadate’s have been widely used in the Plastics and Coatings industries because of their outstanding weather and light fastness and good acid and alkali resistance. The pigments have outstanding fastness to migration in plastics and are readily dispersible.
In addition to that, their general features are:
High gloss and brightness
Opaque
Excellent light and weather fastness
Very easy to disperse
Excellent acid and solvent fastness
Good alkali fastness
Cadmium Pigments are pigments based on cadmium sulfide and zinc sulfo-selenide and cadmium, which offer a wide shade of colours ranging from greenish yellow through the oranges, reds and maroon. Although cadmium is classified as a heavy metal, these cadmium pigments are cadmium salts with soluble cadmium content extremely low and controlled, allowing use in several applications and complying with a number of global regulations.
Cadmium Pigments have the following main characteristics:
Clean and bright colours
Easy dispersion
High tinting strength
Excellent thermal resistance (600 ° C)
Excellent weather and light resistance
Insoluble in water and organic solvents
Does not bleed
Does not migrate
Excellent stability, non-warping
Good resistance to alkalis and detergents
Compatible with other pigments
Applications: Recommended for use in plastics, architectural & industrial coatings, road marking, powder coatings, and other specialty markets.
Plastics
Cadmium pigments have excellent resistance to high temperatures due to it their manufacturing process and can therefore be routinely used in polymers that are processed above 300°C, such as polycarbonate, polyamides and PTFE.
Road marking Paints
Cadmium pigments are used in thermoplastic paints production processes applied on urban roads, highways, bike paths, airports, parking lots, special signs. Great alternative to replace chromates and molybdates.
Product Range: Our differentiated quality control, allows us to monitor colour aspects and application, reproducing the system used by the customer. Our lots are tailor made per customer requirement, and produced following predefined pattern, giving batch to batch repeatability.
Please enquire with your sales representative on products available.
Cadmium Pigments are pigments based on cadmium sulfide and zinc sulfo-selenide and cadmium, which offer a wide shade of colours ranging from greenish yellow through the oranges, reds and maroon. Although cadmium is classified as a heavy metal, these cadmium pigments are cadmium salts with soluble cadmium content extremely low and controlled, allowing use in several applications and complying with a number of global regulations.
Cadmium Pigments have the following main characteristics:
Clean and bright colours
Easy dispersion
High tinting strength
Excellent thermal resistance (600 ° C)
Excellent weather and light resistance
Insoluble in water and organic solvents
Does not bleed
Does not migrate
Excellent stability, non-warping
Good resistance to alkalis and detergents
Compatible with other pigments
Applications: Recommended for use in plastics, architectural & industrial coatings, road marking, powder coatings, and other specialty markets.
Plastics
Cadmium pigments have excellent resistance to high temperatures due to it their manufacturing process and can therefore be routinely used in polymers that are processed above 300°C, such as polycarbonate, polyamides and PTFE.
Road marking Paints
Cadmium pigments are used in thermoplastic paints production processes applied on urban roads, highways, bike paths, airports, parking lots, special signs. Great alternative to replace chromates and molybdates.
Product Range: Our differentiated quality control, allows us to monitor colour aspects and application, reproducing the system used by the customer. Our lots are tailor made per customer requirement, and produced following predefined pattern, giving batch to batch repeatability.
Please enquire with your sales representative on products available.
Cadmium Pigments are pigments based on cadmium sulfide and zinc sulfo-selenide and cadmium, which offer a wide shade of colours ranging from greenish yellow through the oranges, reds and maroon. Although cadmium is classified as a heavy metal, these cadmium pigments are cadmium salts with soluble cadmium content extremely low and controlled, allowing use in several applications and complying with a number of global regulations.
Cadmium Pigments have the following main characteristics:
Clean and bright colours
Easy dispersion
High tinting strength
Excellent thermal resistance (600 ° C)
Excellent weather and light resistance
Insoluble in water and organic solvents
Does not bleed
Does not migrate
Excellent stability, non-warping
Good resistance to alkalis and detergents
Compatible with other pigments
Applications: Recommended for use in plastics, architectural & industrial coatings, road marking, powder coatings, and other specialty markets.
Plastics
Cadmium pigments have excellent resistance to high temperatures due to it their manufacturing process and can therefore be routinely used in polymers that are processed above 300°C, such as polycarbonate, polyamides and PTFE.
Road marking Paints
Cadmium pigments are used in thermoplastic paints production processes applied on urban roads, highways, bike paths, airports, parking lots, special signs. Great alternative to replace chromates and molybdates.
Product Range: Our differentiated quality control, allows us to monitor colour aspects and application, reproducing the system used by the customer. Our lots are tailor made per customer requirement, and produced following predefined pattern, giving batch to batch repeatability.
Please enquire with your sales representative on products available.
Calcium stearates, which are recognized as physiologically safe, have become increasingly important in the last few years. They are insoluble in most solvents. They dissolve only slightly when heated in aromatic compounds, chlorinated hydrocarbons or vegetable and mineral oils and waxes. Calcium stearates are mainly used as lubricants, mold release agents and acid scavengers by the plastics industry. The pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry uses calcium stearate as an anti-caking additive for powders and granules and as an excipient for pressing tablets. The building industry uses it as hydrophobic agent for inhibiting moisture absorption and preservation of building materials and construction.
Calcium Stearate is used by the rubber and plastic industries as an effective elastomer processing aid and release agent. The low chloride content of Calcium Stearate allows for complete product dispersion in elastomers. Calcium Stearate reduces extruder pressure build-up of rigid PVC compounds when used as a processing aid during the manufacture of pipe, siding and injection molded fittings. The low chloride content of Calcium Stearate meets the quality and processing demands of polyolefin, polystyrene and polyester manufacture.
Carbon black pigment suitable for use in plastics or rubber.
Chrome Oxide Green is an inorganic pigment whose olive-green colour has been classified as Pigment Green 17/C.I. 77288 (Chrome Oxide Green) by the Colour Index System. Its basic chemical composition is Cr2O3.
Chrome Oxide Greens are used in a wide variety of applications because of its excellent opacity, outdoor durability and heat fastness. Its hardness is also highly valued for surface finishing, where Chrome Oxide Greens are used as abrasive components. They are also used as a base oxide to produce several other metal oxide based pigments.
Chrome Yellows are inorganic pigments which provide Primrose, Lemon and Middle Yellow shades.
The Primrose & Lemon colour have been classified as Pigment Yellow 34/C.I. 77603 (Chrome Yellow) by the Colour Index System. Their basic chemical composition is PbCrO4.PbSO4.
The Middle Chrome colour has been classified as Pigment Yellow 34/C.I. 77600 (Chrome Yellow) by the Colour Index System. Its basic chemical composition is PbCrO4. PbSO4.
Chrome Yellows have been widely used in the Plastics and Coatings industry because of their bright yellow colour and high hiding power.
Product Range:
Encapsulated series – The most heat-resistant (300ºC, 5 min) series
Heat-resistant series (220ºC-260ºC, 5 min) and enhanced acid and weather fastness series
The standard series
PB28 cobalt aluminate blue spinel pigments offer reddish blue to turquoise blue shades. They are opaque to visible light with moderate NIR reflectance and properties including ease of dispersion and excellent dimensional stability resulting in no warping or shrinkage.
PB36 cobalt chromite blue green spinel pigments offer greenish blue to turquoise blue shades. They are opaque to visible light with moderate NIR reflectance and properties including ease of dispersion and excellent dimensional stability resulting in no warping or shrinkage.
Products:
22-4400
PG50 cobalt titanate green spinel pigments offer a bright green shade. They are opaque to visible light with moderate NIR reflectance (“cool” pigment). Properties include ease of dispersion with excellent dimensional stability resulting in no warping or shrinkage. Ni-free grades are available.
A versatile light stabilizer with outstanding extraction resistance, low gas fading, and low pigment interaction
Applications: Plastics
HITOX (high grade titanium dioxide) is a high quality, cost-effective, beige and gray coloured rutile titanium dioxide pigments produced by TOR Minerals. Most titanium dioxide is pure white, but HITOX demonstrates that whiteness is not a pre-requisite for effectiveness in colour formulations.
In products which require opacity and colour i.e. non-white paints, Hitox pigments can reduce the amount of expensive organic & inorganic pigments as well as white TiO2. Depending on the finished colour desired, HITOX can replace from 15-100% of white TiO2, and may also allow the reduction of coloured organic and inorganic pigments, achieving considerable savings.
Applications: Hitox STD (Beige) – Can be used in a broad range of Paint and Coatings applications, including Architectural, Coil Backers, Powder, Container, Wood, Traffic, Primers, Adhesive & Sealants and Roof Coatings – basically all non-white applications where colour is required.
Hitox Gray (Grey) – Well suited for use in gray primers, powder coatings and other decorative and industrial paints. In addition to cost savings, HITOX gray can eliminate or reduce the use of black pigments which are typically difficult to incorporate due to floatation problems.
Product Range: Hitox® Buff – Beige
Hitox® Gray – Grey
The IR Reflective range decreases the undesirable absorption in the IR region. The pigments reflect the infrared light to a big extent, while still appearing as intensely coloured as comparable conventional pigments.
Features:
Coloured parts are less subject to thermal expansion and contraction
Increased service life
Less product degradation
Improved comfort levels for building occupants
Lower air conditioning costs
Recommended for use in plastics and niche coatings applications, e.g. powder coatings, coil coatings, stoving paints or any other coating requiring high heat fastness.
Description: Yellow Iron Oxides are not heat resistant and can only be used below 180ºC-190ºC. At such temperature, the goethite structure of the Yellow Iron Oxides turns into the hematite structure characteristic of the Red Iron Oxides. Therefore, a colour change from yellow to red is clearly observed.
The way to prevent such colour fading is to protect the yellow iron oxide structure with an encapsulation to withstand high temperatures (260ºC, 5min), allowing it to be used in niche markets requiring high temperatures. Moreover, Encapsulated Yellow Iron Oxide, shows all the excellent attributes which are characteristic of such range of pigments.
In addition, it can be used as a replacement for Pigment Brown 24 (PBr24) and red organic pigments both in Plastics and high temperature cured Coatings. This substitution allows formulating beige, green, red and brown colour shades at reduced cost keeping the same chemical and physical properties.
Black Iron Oxide is recommended for use in the coatings, ink and construction industry.
Description: Iron Oxides cover the colour space known as earthy colours (red, yellow, black and browns), similar to those colours found in nature. The use of these pigments in the construction and coatings market, makes the resulting construction fully integrated in the landscape.
Black Iron oxide provide the following advantages:
Excellent durability and stability
Easy incorporation
Colour consistency batch-batch
Good performance to cost ratio benefit
Competitive pricing
Brown Iron Oxide is recommended for use in the coatings and construction industry.
Description: Iron Oxides cover the colour space known as earthy colours (red, yellow, black and browns), similar to those colours found in nature. The use of these pigments in the construction and coatings market, makes the resulting construction fully integrated in the landscape.
Iron Oxide Brown provide the following advantages:
Excellent durability and stability
Easy incorporation
Colour consistency batch-batch
Good performance to cost ratio benefit
Competitive pricing
Green Iron Oxide is recommended for use in the paints, coatings and construction industry.
Description: Compound pigment comprised of iron oxide yellow, organic pigment and additives. It has good opacity, high tinting strength with good light fastness. It is resistant to acid, lime and alkaline and is widely used as colorant for paints and coatings. It may be used for full shaded products, or reduced by tinting with titanium dioxide (TiO2).
Green Iron Oxide provide the following advantages:
Good durability and stability
Bright colour
High tinting strength
Easy incorporation
Colour consistency batch-batch
Good performance to cost ratio benefit
Competitive pricing
Recommended for use in the coatings, inks and plastics industry.
Description: Micronized Yellow Iron Oxide are manufactured with a special process that minimizes the presence of agglomerates, providing enhanced dispersibility, colour reproducibility and gloss. It provides higher performance vs conventional Iron Oxides mostly because of its higher dispersibility, narrower particle size distribution and lower sieve residue.
Red Iron oxide is recommended for use in the coatings and construction industry.
Description: Iron Oxides cover the colour space known as earthy colours (red, yellow, black and browns), similar to those colours found in nature. The use of these pigments in the construction and coatings market, makes the resulting construction fully integrated in the landscape.
Red Iron oxide provide the following advantages:
Excellent durability and stability
Easy incorporation
Colour consistency batch-batch
Good performance to cost ratio benefit
Competitive pricing
Description: Iron Oxides cover the colour space known as earthy colours (red, yellow, black and browns), similar to those colours found in nature. The use of these pigments in the construction and coatings market, makes the resulting construction fully integrated in the landscape.
Yellow Iron oxide provide the following advantages:
Excellent durability and stability
Easy incorporation
Colour consistency batch-batch
Good performance to cost ratio benefit
Competitive pricing
Manganese Ferrite Black Oxide is recommended for use in most coatings, plastics and cementitious systems.
It has excellent heat fastness, outdoor durability, light and chemical fastness. It is non-bleeding and non-migratory, suitable for high temperature curing, processing and end-use
Molybdate Oranges are inorganic pigments which provide Orange, Scarlet and Red shades. Molybdate Oranges have been classified as Pigment Red 104/C.I. 77605 (Molybdate Orange/Red) by the Colour Index System. Their basic chemical composition is PbCr4.PbSO4. bMoO4.
Molybdate Oranges have been widely used in the Plastics and Coatings industry because of their bright yellow colour and high hiding power.
Product Range:
The most heat-resistant (300ºC, 5 min) series.
The heat-resistant (220ºC-260ºC, 5 min), enhanced acid and weather fastness series.
The heat-resistant (220ºC-260ºC, 5 min), enhanced acid, SO2 and weather fastness series.
The standard series.
Red shade blue
Green Shade Blue
Phthalocyanine Green, better known as Pigment Green 7, is a synthetic green pigment from the group of phthalocyanine dyes, a complex of copper(II) with chlorinated phthalocyanine. PG 7 has a bright, high intensity colour, transparent in application. Due to its stability, PG 7 is used in many inks, coatings, and plastics, as well as some cosmetics applications. Being insoluble, it also has no tendency to migrate in the material. PG 7 is the standard green colour for plastics, used in polyolefins, engineering plastic, PP, terylene, acrylic fibers and nylon.
Bright, clean, transparent Pyrazolone Orange with excellent tinting strength. 2113 has fair lightfastness in masstone/deep shades and is poor in tints.
Recommended for inks, plastics & limited coatings applications.
Bright, strong redder shade transparent type Azo Orange with fair lightfastness
Recommended for use in various printing applications such as solvent and water based inks
PO 34 can also be used in selected paint applications for interior use
Also suitable for coloration of low temperature plastics and textile printing
Opaque, reddish shade orange that is bright in chroma with very good light, weather fastness and heat resistance characteristics (FDA approved)
Primarily recommended for polyolefins, ABS, styrene, thermoset resins in addition to high quality powder and liquid industrial coatings
Finds a wide use of applications in coatings that include trade sales, automotive, agricultural equipment, architectural paints, and industrial finishes
Excellent heat stability; suitable colorant for use in various plastic applications
Suitable for all other ink applications such as solvent, water, UV and ink jet inks
Additionally recommended for all coatings applications
Very bright, yellow shade Napthol red with very good lightfastness, opacity, flow properties and chemical resistance
Extensively used for high-grade industrial paints, implement enamels, agricultural equipment and powder coatings applications
Also used in higher quality printing applications for gravure printing, polyester films, textile printing, water based, UV, off-set, metal deco and ink jet inks
Can also be used in the plastics industry in PVC, HDPE and occasionally in polypropylene and spin dyeings
Very opaque, bright medium shade red with excellent overall properties
Applications in water based and solvent based inks. Due to the excellent heat stability, 1354 makes a suitable colourant for use in various plastic applications such as PVC, HDPE, polystyrene, polyester spin dyeing, polyolefins, rubber and other areas
Recommended for plastics & inks
Bright, standard warm red pigment of excellent brightness and tinting strength
Yellowest shade Red C
Used in plastics for the coloration of HDPE, PVC with some uses in PUR foam and rubber
Recommended for plastics & inks
PR 57:1 is a calcium salt, bluish red (tint pale reddish violet) pigment with excellent brightness, colour purity, tinting strength and chroma
Good heat stability for use in various plastics applications such as in rigid PVC, LDPE, HDPE, polystyrene, PP spin dyeing, and PUR foams
Recommended for coatings, inks & plastics
Bright, yellow shade quinacridone with excellent overall properties
Extensively used for high-grade industrial paints, implement enamels, agricultural equipment and powder coatings applications
Can also be used in water, solvent, UV and ink jet inks. It is also used for poster printing, textile printing, artist colors, offset inks and metal deco printing
Finds uses in the plastics industry in PVC, polycarbonates, HDPE and occasionally in PUR foams
Reddish shade yellow pigment with excellent opacity and lightfastness in deep shades
Recommended for plastics and coatings
Green shade yellow pigment with excellent light and weather fastness, especially in deep shades
High opacity and good flow properties in all types of coatings
Recommended for plastics, coatings and inks
Green shade yellow with excellent heat stability and good light and weatherfastness
Recommended for plastics
Non-warping green shade yellow with excellent heat stability
Recommended for plastics
Non-warping red shade yellow with excellent heat stability
Recommended for plastics
Azo yellow calcium precipitated pigment with good lightfastness, chemical resistance and heat stability
Widely used in various plastic applications such as plasticized and rigid PVC, PP, LDPE, HDPE and for the colouration of rubber articles. Other potential suitable uses may also be found in polystyrenes, ABS and for Powder Coatings
The utilization of talc lead to extreme advantages in paint and coatings. Talc is used primarily in industrial paint and coatings, wood lacquers, printing inks, fillers as well as in various coatings. Due to the characteristics of talc, it is outstandingly suitable for paints and coatings. The lamellar, hydrophobic and chemical inert structure of talc makes it to a perfect filler for the industry. Talc increases coverage and weather resistance of the products. The use of talc creates a barrier effect, which limits the penetration of water and corrosive agents into paints and coatings. These properties lead to a reduction in bubble formation, corrosion and peeling.
Effects and benefits:
Extension of durability through
Improves the resistance and prevents cracking and peel of
Water-repellent effect
Increases the viscosity and facilitate dispersion
Improves the weather and UV resistance
Reduction of solvents – decrease VOC
Improves the adhesion of the coating film
TIOPREM BEIGE & GRAY are high performance TiO2. Beige & Gray Coloured Hybrid Pigments produced by Tor Minerals. TIOPREM offers excellent Heat Stability to over 500°F / 260°C, making it suitable for use in High Temperature resins like HDPE, PP, PA, ABS and PC and Coatings. Typical applications are Plastic Master Batch, Colour Concentrates and Liquid Colour. Most titanium dioxide is pure white, but HITOX demonstrates that whiteness is not a pre-requisite for effectiveness in colour formulations. TIOPREM exhibits good opacity and is cost-effective in formulation, partially replacing more expensive heat stable pigments as well as white Titanium Dioxide.
In products which require opacity and colour TIOPREM pigments can reduce the loading of the more expensive organic & inorganic pigments as well as white TiO2. Depending on the finished colour desired, TIOPREM can replace from 15-100% of white TiO2, and may also allow the reduction of coloured organic and inorganic pigments, achieving considerable savings.
Applications: Plastics & High-Temperature Coatings
Product Range: Tioprem® Buff – Beige
Tioprem® Gray – Grey
Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. Titanium dioxide is the most widely used white pigment because of its brightness and very high refractive index. TiO2 is also an effective opacifier in powder form, where it is employed as a pigment to provide whiteness and opacity to products such as paints, coatings, plastics and inks.
Description: Ultramarine Blue is an inorganic pigment whose colour has been classified as Pigment Blue 29/C.I. 77007 by the Colour Index System. Chemically it is a sodium aluminum sulphosilicate.
Ultramarine Blues are the most widely used blue pigments because of their unique colouristic and performance attributes. Ultramarine Blues provide a unique reddish undertone blue colour and are able to easily tint whites, greys and blacks with a bluish undertone, to enhance the best of such colours. Moreover, Ultramarine Blues lack metamerism; therefore, they do not change colour in function of the illuminate.
Food Contact Packaging / Toys / Cosmetics and Personal care products / General Packaging / Electric and Electronic Equipment / Textile / Automotive / Construction / Fertilizers / Plant Protection Products / Paints & Coatings / Paper / Industrial applications / Artist Supply and Hobby preparations.
In addition to this very specific reddish blue shade, Ultramarine Blue is an excellent white corrector that neutralizes yellowish shades. This whitening effect is widely appreciated in many fields of application e.g. plastics, coatings, detergents.
Ultramarine Pinks provide very similar performance to Ultramarine Violets, with even more reddish shade.
Ultramarine Pink is mostly used to reach pinky shades in Plastics. Its low tinting strength can become advantageous vs organic pigments because it provides a very transparent pink shade with little colour saturation. It is also very suitable to combine with “Effect pigments” to reach unique colour effects too.
Ultramarine Violets are mostly used in Plastics to reduce the yellowish tendency of some resins and to provide brightness to white-coloured Plastics. They can also be used to provide a violet shade to all sort of Plastic parts. As Ultramarine Blues, they lack metamerism; therefore, they do not change color in function of the illuminate.
Ultramarine Violets’ properties are very similar to Ultramarine Blues’ in terms of:
Compatibility with all kinds of polymers
Easy-dispersion
Maintenance of polymer’s dimensional stability
High heat fastness (300ºC, 5 min)
Excellent light fastness
Very good weather fastness, especially in the case of well-stabilized to UV light formulations
Good resistance to alkalis (without the presence of high % of Calcium ions)
Insolubility, avoiding migration tendencies
Transparency, what make them very suitable to combine with “Effect and Metallic pigments” to reach unique color effects
Environmentally-friendly profile
Safe product in processing and final-use
Recommended for use in niche coatings applications, eg. powder coatings, coil coatings, stoving paints or any other coating that requires high heat fastness.
Also recommended for use in plastics, synthetic turf, automotive interiors, wood plastics composites and synthetic leather.
Description: Zinc Ferrite is an inorganic pigment whose tan colour has been classified as Pigment Yellow 119/C.I. 77496 (Zinc Ferrite) by the Color Index System. Its basic chemical composition is a Spinel Fe2O3.ZnO Zinc Ferrites, being slightly redder than Yellow Iron Oxides, are used in niche coatings and plastics applications because of its enhanced heat-fastness vs Yellow Iron Oxides.
Typical properties, of Zinc Ferrites show very similar properties to Yellow Iron Oxides:
High opacity
High compatibility with all kinds of binders
Ease to disperse and to wet
Excellent solvent fastness
Excellent alkali fastness
Excellent light fastness
No metamerism
Environmentally-friendly profile
Zinc Stearate is a chemical substance that has a white, fluffy, powdered appearance and is usually formed from a combination of Stearic acid and zinc oxide. It does not have a strong odour, although traces of a slight fatty acid scent are not uncommon Zinc Stearate is a compound of long-chain fatty acids with Zinc attached to it. Zinc Stearates are insoluble in polar solvents (like alcohol & ethers), but more soluble in in aromatic compounds and chlorinated hydrocarbons when heated.
It is the most powerful release agent among all metal soaps. It contains no electrolyte and has a hydrophobic effect. Because of this versatility, this substance is used by many different types of companies, from plastic industries to concrete manufacturers. It is used extensively in colour concentrates as a dispersion aid.
Its main application areas are the plastics and rubber industry where it is used as a releasing agent and lubricant which can be easily incorporated. These applications exploit its “non-stick” properties. In cosmetics, zinc stearate is a lubricant and thickening to improve texture. It is an “activator” for rubber vulcanization by sulphur and accelerators.
