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BASF adds Paliogen Blue pigment for use in auto coatings

11 Jun '15

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Germany based specialty chemicals producer BASF has added a particularly colour intensive Indanthrone blue pigment, the Paliogen Blue EH 1900 for suppliers of automotive coatings.

“Suppliers of automotive coatings have high expectations when it comes to pigments and BASF meets the requirements by offering them a broad portfolio of high-performance pigments,” it said in a press release.

BASF pigments have the highest durability levels, outstanding colouristics and excellent processability in both, water and solvent based systems,” BASF added.

According to BASF, this new pigment enables its customers to produce highly chromatic reddish-blue colour shades and the product can also be combined with various effect pigments.

Paliogen Blue EH 1900 provides a lot of benefits for the user like showing an excellent performance in water and solvent-based systems and is universally applicable.

“The product not only stands out due to its good fastness to weathering, but also due to a reduced tendency ‘to bleed,” it observed.

“The pigment particles do not migrate into other coating layers, which results in better overcoating fastness,” explained Tom Landuydt, head of Pigment Marketing for Automotive Coatings at BASF.

“Moreover the pigment shows great styling possibilities with Lumina Royal Blue 6803 H and with Lumina Royal Aqua 7803 H,” Landuydt too added.

With its new effect pigment Lumina Royal Magenta EH 5000 (4803 H), BASF also offers suppliers of automotive coatings, novel options ranging from the reddish-blue colour spectrum into the red colour area.

Due to the narrow particle-size distribution, the pigment helps to create highly chromatic new colour shades as well as surfaces that appear extremely pure and vibrant from any angle.

“With Lumina Royal Magenta, we can now offer effects from the greenish blue into the copper orange color space,” Tom Landuydt underlined by saying.

Lumina Royal Magenta is the fifth member of the Lumina Royal product family of BASF. Prior to this, BASF has already launched four colour shades Aqua, Blue, Indigo and Copper. (AR)

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