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Achieving top performance from organic pigments.
We identified the five most common areas where special expertise is required to help customers get the most out of coatings containing organic color pigments. Any of these five areas can assume critical importance depending on the type of coating and its intended use, and, if not properly addressed, can function as a barrier to acceptance of the product. So it is important to aggressively find solutions to these problems.
Whether for industrial, architectural or powder formulations, our customers' top problem areas are as follows: 1. cost/value of pigment component; 2. dispersibility; 3. opacity; 4. light-fastness/weatherfastness; and 5. initial gloss/gloss retention
1. Cost/value
Organic color pigment is often the largest component in the cost of a coating. As a result, organic pigment …
