03. Apr 2019

Clariant offers high-performance pigments based on renewably-sourced raw materials

Clariant offers high-performance pigments based on renewably-sourced raw materials

At the European Coatings Show 2019 in March, Clariant launched the first bio-based version of Pigment Red 254 - the automotive industry's most widely-used red pigment for exterior coatings.

nClariant is the only pigment producer to offer high-performance Diketopyrrolo Pyrrole (DPP) pigments, such as Pigment Red 254 and other red, pink and violet shades, based on renewable raw materials. The company is the first to pioneer the use of succinic acid derived from renewable resources rather than from crude oil for manufacturing all of its DPP reds.

DPP pigments are valued for automotive because of their high strength of color and durability. Bold colors like red, however, are used, not only in cars, but across the board in urban transport. Buses often favor stand-out shades of red, bright green or intense yellow. Strong blues are a frequent choice for trains because of the association with serenity and dirt-hiding abilities, however vibrant colors are gaining interest, as on India Railway’s semi-high speed trains, for example.
Coatings producer Gross & Perthun use Clariant’s pigments for co-dispersing to improve the eco-efficiency of mass in producing its high volume, highly brilliant color shades. The pigments contain no lead in their molecular formula.

“For the production of high volume mass colors, co-dispersing is an attractive and economic alternative to color mixing systems which require considerably more effort. We are significantly saving production time, and also use markedly fewer raw materials and less energy,” says Rainer Wadenpohl, Head of Laboratory at Gross & Perthun.

Co-dispersing in a bead mill delivers an economic advantage for high volume shades. However Clariant also offers next-generation pigments for co-dispersing that take the savings a step further. They are so easy to disperse that even in co-dispersing operations the bead milling process can be potentially faster, more efficient and more reliable.

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