Pigment preparations are colorant solutions that are fully dispersed, free-flowing, and easy to meter. They are the more efficient way to color when compared to their powder counterparts.
With advantages such as shorter change-over times, easier cleaning for production lines, and significant reduction in reworking production batches, it's no wonder they are gaining a lot of momentum as we engineer new color solutions.
Solve your sorting issues for black packaging materials with a pigment preparation that can be used for recycling!
▪ High coloring efficiency
▪ Easy to use for recycling & mix with PO-recyclates
▪ Fully dispersed with consistent lot-to-lot quality
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Pigment Preparations for Plastics
In the top part of the video, you see the production of a masterbatch using a powder pigment. Whereas in the bottom portion, you see the production of a masterbatch using Microlen® pigment preparation.
How pigment preparations improve the total cost of ownership (TCO):
- Up to 65% higher throughput
- Significant capacity gains
- Avoid unnecessary batch rework
- Improve scale-up from lab to production
Main Challenges
- Cost pressure
- Increasing processing speed
- Mitigate risks and optimize return on invested capital (ROIC)
- Changing compliance requirements
- Need for circularity and recycling
- Waste reduction
- Health and safety
- Skilled workforce
Pigment Preparations Provide Sustainability Solutions in Three Dimensions
- Intense chroma, strength and transparency
- Improved efficiency results in better TCO
- Save resources on quality control testing
- Get it right the first time, optimize use of working capital
- Reduce risk of contamination
- Cleaner filters with reduced build-up
- Improve working conditions with low dust
- Minimize waste and energy from reworking production
- Easy to replicate from lab to production
- Reduce development time overall
- Reliable production motivates staff
- Improved working conditions support safety measures
This February, the EU classified titanium dioxide as suspected carcinogen by inhalation per the CLP regulation, which will be broadly applied throughout the EU supply chain no later than October 1, 2021.
After a portfolio analysis, our Product Safety and Regulatory Team has found that no Colors & Effects products are subject to the new classification.
Explore our compliant solutions from Xfast® dry pigment preparations and Micranyl® and Microlith® preparations to effect pigments products, including DF70 preparations.
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