Organic Pigments for Coatings and Inks

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.

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.

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.

Terasperse® 2200 by Pflaumer Brothers acts as a dispersing agent for both organic and inorganic pigments for a wide variety of water-based systems, including urethanes, alkyds, acrylics, polyesters and epoxies. It offers excellent color and gloss stability on aging of dispersions, high pigment/binder ratios and a lower level of grinding resin that gives extra flexibility in formulating.

• It shows compatibility with a wide variety of resins including 2-component systems, water-reducible and water-based resins.
• Its well-balanced surface-active functionality provides an excellent combination of hydrophilic and hydrophobic attributes and optimizing the dispersion of almost all pigments and extenders, including such difficult-to disperse pigments as phthalo blue, phthalo green and carbon black.
• It reduces surface tension and produces effective, efficient pigment wetting characteristics.
• Recommended dosage level is 1% to 12% by total weight, depending on the pigments used and other surfactants and vehicles utilized.

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.

ADDITOL® XL 6521 by allnex is a high molecular wetting and dispersing agent with cationic character for carbon black and organic pigments. It is suitable for solvent-borne, solvent-free and high solid systems such as high-quality car refinish, industrial lacquers, printing inks and pigment pastes. It reduces dispersing time, enhances gloss & leveling, prevents reflocculation of pigment particles and reduces viscosity of pigment pastes. It is suitable for radiation curing systems. The recommended dosage level of ADDITOL® XL 6521 is 10-50% on organic pigments and 50-80% on carbon black. The shelf life of this product is 730 days.

DCC Yellow 7151 distributed by DKSH is a high-performance green shade yellow benzimidazolone-based organic pigment. It exhibits heat stability, excellent light fastness and overfastness resistance. It offers very good ethanol & acid resistance.

• It is used in high-end coatings applications where excellent weatherfastness is required.
• It shows excellent resistance against methyl ethyl ketone, water, mineral spirits, xylene, and ethyl acetate.
• DCC Yellow 7151 is used in decorative, automotive-, industrial- and powder coatings.
• It is available in Portugal and Australia.

DCC Yellow 7351 distributed by DKSH is a benzimidazolone-based high-performance green shade yellow pigment. It exhibits heat stability, excellent light- and good weather fastness and over paint resistance.

• It is used in high-end coating applications where excellent glass retention is required.
• It shows excellent resistance against methyl ethyl ketone-, water-, mineral spirits-, xylene-, ethanol-, ethyl acetate-, acid- and alkali.
• DCC Yellow 7351 is used in decorative-, automotive/aerospace-, industrial- and powder coatings.
• It is available in India and Portugal.

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.

ADDITOL® XL 6592 by allnex is a dispersing agent for all paint systems with sensitive cure mechanism. It is suitable for solvent-free and low VOC formulations. It stabilizes primary pigment particles by steric stabilization as well as electrostatic repulsion.

• It offers high pigment loading, gloss improvement, color stabilization, anti-floating (rub-out) and anti-sedimentation effect.
• This extreme hydrophobic polymer allows improved corrosion-, water-, humidity- and weather resistances.
• It is recommended for ACURE® technology, 2 pack epoxy resins, high solid acrylic resins and melamine cured high bake systems.
• The recommended dosage level to be added is 0.8-4.0% for inorganic pigments or extenders and 4.0-24% for organic pigments.
• It is suitable for radiation curing and all kind of industrial coating systems including UV cured topcoat and printing inks.
• The shelf life of ADDITOL® XL 6592 is 730 days.