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
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
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
Red shade blue for Coatings and Inks
Green Shade Blue
Green shade Phthalocyanine Blue for coatings
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.
Poly chlorinated copper phthalocyanine. Acts as an organic green pigment. It is odorless as well as possesses an excellent light fastness, chemical fastness, weather fastness and solvent fastness. Used for solvent based liquid inks, solvent based air drying paints, powder coatings, stoving enamel and alkyd paints.
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
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
Recommended for coatings and 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, blueshade quinacridone with a similar shade to that of thioindigo red with excellent overall properties
Extensively used for high-grade industrial paints, implement enamels, agricultural equipment and powder coatings applications
Frequently used in water, solvent, UV and ink jet inks as well as for polyester films, offset inks and metal deco printing
Additional uses are found in the textile industry and in wood stain finishes producing a variety of shades of brown when blended with yellows and carbon black
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
A bright, blue shade violet with outstanding brilliant color purity and tinting strength
Recommended for water based printing inks or oil inks
AAMX medium shade diarylide yellow offering good opacity and tinting strength compared to other diarylide pigments
Recommended for use in offset inks, flexo and gravure inks
Additional uses can be found in low cost interior alkyd paints and in PVC, rubber and vinyl
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
Recommended for use in various printing ink applications such as water-based, nitrocellulose and polyamide based inks and metal deco printing
Also suitable for use in some air-dry industrial coatings and for textile printing
Non-warping redder shade yellow with excellent heat stability
Recommended for coatings and inks
Medium shade Hansa Yellow with good lightfastness and opacity
Recommended for coatings and inks
Medium shade Diarylide yellow offering good opacity, lightfastness, excellent flow properties and tinting strength
Used extensively for general industrial coatings where good rheology and opacity is required. Due to the excellent lightfastness properties, this product is also used in tractor and implement finishes in addition to automotive refinishes and powder coatings applications. This product may also be used in combination with inorganics as a replacement for chrome yellow medium shades
Other uses include high quality printing ink applications such as ink jet and UV inks; It is also recommended for artist colours, and wood stains
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.