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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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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
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.