Elevate your coatings and inks with optimised visual effects.
Effect pigments play a crucial role in enhancing visual aesthetics in coatings and inks by creating unique colour effects, metallic finishes, pearlescence, and colour travel. These pigments interact with light through reflection, refraction, and interference, producing depth, brilliance, and dynamic colour shifts. As demand grows across automotive, industrial, decorative, and packaging sectors, innovation in high-chroma, sustainable, and durable formulations is driving the next generation of effect pigment technology.
Benefits:
Achieving superior colour brilliance, durability, and unique visual effects in formulations starts with the right effect pigments and optimised processing techniques. Here’s how:
- Flake orientation and dispersion: Maximise gloss and colour travel by ensuring precise flake alignment with viscosity control and advanced dispersing agents.
- Shear sensitivity: Protect pigment integrity with gentle mixing techniques to maintain peak brilliance and lustre.
- Binder Compatibility: Tailor formulations with the right resin and solvent systems for enhanced opacity, transparency, and long-term performance.
Key materials:
Effect pigments are pigments that give additional features like angle-dependent colour or gloss changes or texture in the system in which they are embedded. The main categories include:
- Pearlescent pigments: Made from mica, glass, or alumina flakes coated with TiO₂, Fe₂O₃, or other metal oxides, producing soft shimmer to intense interference effects.
- Metallic pigments: Aluminium or coated aluminium flakes create a brilliant and opaque metallic appearance.
Formulation support:
Developed in our laboratories, our formulations use the best-performing raw material combinations to meet market and customer requirements, ensuring optimal performance for different applications and conditions.
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