Organic Pigments for Coatings and Inks

Chroma-chem® 844-9451 distributed by DKSH is a high performance, non-aqueous quinacridone violet pigment. It is dispersed in a proprietary acrylic resin vehicle that provides excellent wetting and dispersing properties superior to other acrylic resins available.

• It contains a carefully selected and unique blend of vehicle, solvent, pigment and additives to yield acceptance in a wide range of non-aqueous coatings applications.
• Designed to minimize the dispersing resin and additive levels.
• It is exceptional for the universal tinting of solvent-based industrial coatings.
• Compatible with acrylic, polyester, cellulosic lacquer, vinyl lacquer, chlorinated rubber, alkyd, epoxy and polyurethane.
• It is also compatible with most aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, esters, ethers, ketones, and reactive diluents.
• Chroma-chem® 844-9451 exhibits excellent pigment development and rheological characteristics.
• Used in most non-aqueous industrial coatings including aerosols, concrete protection, general industrial finishes and maintenance, general OEM, marine and protective coatings.
• It has a shelf life of 3 years.
• It is available in Canada.

NUOSPERSE® FX 600 by Elementis is a highly effective pigment dispersing agent. It is a multi-functional polymer, free of organic solvents. It ensures a strong interaction with a wide range of pigments, owing to its multi-functional structure.

• It adsorbed strongly onto inorganic pigments such as titanium dioxide and iron oxides (yellow, red or black) but also onto organic pigments such as fast red, quindo magenta, phthalo blue and green.
• It exhibits optimized stabilization of pigments in aqueous systems.
• It is suitable for use with a wide variety of binders such as baked acrylic dispersions, air-drying alkyds, polyester-melamines, 2-pack epoxies, acrylates.
• It offers high gloss levels, optimal opacity, consistent quality, improved corrosion resistance.
• It provides improved pigment wetting resulting in shorter grind times and cost savings.
• NUOSPERSE® FX 600 is used for waterborne industrial coatings, protective coatings, gloss dispersion paints, colorants, printing inks, also used in pigment concentrates for tinting paints, leather finishes, textiles, plastics, inks, etc. Recommended dosage level as a pigment dispersant 0.5-2.0% for paint, 0.5-3.0% for printing ink and 1-15% for pigment concentrates.
• It has a shelf life of 3 years.

Tallicin® K-9 by Pflaumer Brothers is a polymeric dispersant with multiple anchor groups that can be used to disperse inorganic and organic pigments. It improves pigment wetting, color development and storage stability. It is used in solvent-based coatings, industrial maintenance coatings, offset inks and powder coatings.

• It is effective in reducing viscosity for dispersions of both oxidized and non-oxidized carbon black.
• It allows the formulator to increase the pigment loading in the mill base, thus improving both efficiency and cost of production.
• Recommended dosage level is 2 and 20% based upon pigment weight if the surface area of the pigment is unknown.

Chroma-chem® 844-2852 distributed by DKSH is a high performance, non-aqueous organic yellow pigment. It is dispersed in a proprietary acrylic resin vehicle that provides excellent wetting and dispersing properties superior to other acrylic resins available.

• It contains a carefully selected and unique blend of vehicle, solvent, pigment and additives to yield acceptance in a wide range of non-aqueous coatings applications.
• Designed to minimize the dispersing resin and additive levels.
• It is exceptional for the universal tinting of solvent-based industrial coatings.
• Compatible with acrylic, polyester, cellulosic lacquer, vinyl lacquer, chlorinated rubber, alkyd, epoxy and polyurethane.
• It is also compatible with most aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, esters, ethers, ketones, and reactive diluents.
• Chroma-chem® 844-2852 exhibits excellent pigment development and rheological characteristics.
• Used in most non-aqueous industrial coatings including aerosols, concrete protection, general industrial finishes and maintenance, general OEM, marine and protective coatings.
• It has a shelf life of 3 years.
• It is available in Canada.

Chroma-chem® EDC-60211 distributed by DKSH is an orange pigment dispersion for epoxy coatings. It is formulated with epoxy resin and diluent for improved handling properties. It consists of organic and inorganic pigments milled in a bisphenol.

• It provides low-VOC levels, excellent pigment development, maximum pigment loading and good performance characteristics.
• The typical curing agents are aliphatic amines, cycloaliphatic amines, polyamides, amindoamines, aromatic amines and anhydrides.
• It is used in automotive-, coil-, concrete protective-, industrial maintenance- and marine coatings.
• It is also suitable for metal containers-, pipe, and other high-performance protective coatings.
• Chroma-chem® EDC-60211 has a shelf life of 2 years.
• It is available in Canada.

Tallicin® K-8 by Pflaumer Brothers acts as a dispersing agent. It helps produce a high gloss effect as it eliminates bubbles and craters seen in dip tank applications. it is used to disperse inorganic and organic pigments in a variety of systems such as solvent-based coatings, inks, powder coatings.

• it improves pigment wetting, color development, and storage stability.
• Tallicin® K-8 allows the formulator to reduce the viscosity or increase the pigment loading in the mill base thus improving both efficiency and cost of production.
• it is used in industrial maintenance coatings, offset inks, and product finishes.
• Recommended dosage level is 2 and 20% based upon pigment weight if the surface area of the pigment is unknown.

NUOSPERSE® FA 196 by Elementis is an anionic, highly concentrated liquid pigment dispersing agent for carbon black and organic pigment. It is suitable for thermoplastic acrylic systems and as an auxiliary product to improve the action of universal tinting pastes in basic alkyd paints.

• It offers strong adsorption on a wide range of pigment surfaces, improves color development, gives good and fast dispersion, reduces rub-up and color float, improves compatibility of universal colorants.
• It enables the replacement of various more specific dispersants with just one product.
• NUOSPERSE® FA 196 is used for organic solvent-borne paint and ink systems including oxidatively drying systems and thermoplastic systems.
• It has a shelf life of 3 years from the date of manufacture.
• The recommended dosage level is 0.2-0.4% calculated on the total quantity of alkyd paint.

Chroma-chem® 844-5558 distributed by DKSH is a high performance, non-aqueous phthalo green pigment. It is dispersed in a proprietary acrylic resin vehicle that provides excellent wetting and dispersing properties superior to other acrylic resins available.

• It contains a carefully selected and unique blend of vehicle, solvent, pigment and additives to yield acceptance in a wide range of non-aqueous coatings applications.
• Designed to minimize the dispersing resin and additive levels.
• It is exceptional for the universal tinting of solvent-based industrial coatings.
• Compatible with acrylic, polyester, cellulosic lacquer, vinyl lacquer, chlorinated rubber, alkyd, epoxy and polyurethane.
• It is also compatible with most aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, esters, ethers, ketones, and reactive diluents.
• Chroma-chem® 844-5558 exhibits excellent pigment development and rheological characteristics.
• Used in most non-aqueous industrial coatings including aerosols, concrete protection, general industrial finishes and maintenance, general OEM, marine and protective coatings.
• It has a shelf life of 3 years.
• It is available in Canada.

Terasperse® 2208 by Pflaumer Brothers acts as a dispersing agent for both organic and inorganic pigments. It offers high pigment/binder ratios, excellent color & gloss stability on aging of dispersions and a lower level of grinding resin that provides extra flexibility in formulating. Its hydrophilic and hydrophobic attributes, helps to optimize the dispersion of almost all pigments and extenders such as phthalo blue, phthalo green, synthetic iron oxide, quinacridone pigments and carbon black.

• It reduces surface tension and produces effective pigment wetting characteristics.
• It is compatible with a wide variety of water-reducible and water-based resins.
• Terasperse® 2208 provides good rheology profile at high pigment loadings and improved color acceptance.
• It is designed for water-based systems.
• Its recommended dosage level in millbase is 5-9% based on total weight and in tinting paste is 11-15%.

ADDITOL® XW 6532 by allnex is an ionic polymer dispersing- and wetting agent for organic- and carbon black pigments. It is a highly efficient, dissolver- and pearl mill qualified additive. It is recommended for the production of waterborne colorants and low to zero VOC paints. It offers improved color acceptance of universal pigment concentrates.

• It exhibits good pigment wetting, high pigment loading, low pigment floatation and reduced energy consumption.
• It provides improved rheology, color- & shear stability, outdoor durability, water immersion and water spotting.
• The recommended dosage level is 15-50% for organic pigments and 30-100% for carbon black.
• ADDITOL® XW 6532 has a shelf life of 365 days.