The increasing pressure placed on the use of metals through legislation and risk assessment has significantly affected the way in which color targets are achieved.

In the past, retailers were fined for selling paint that exceeded the legal VOC limits.

Bayferrox 130 C iron oxide red pigment from LANXESS played a part in adding color and radiance to the royal wedding.

Chemists at Oregon State University have discovered that the same crystal structure they identified two years ago to create what may be the world’s best blue pigment can also be used with different elements to create other colors.

The use of mixture statistics with formulation development is valuable because it provides a clear, concise path to obtain an optimum formula within a practical number of trials.

This article is Part 1 of a four-part series on converting to an integrated tinting system.

A new inorganic black pigment has been developed combining jetness and a neutral colour shade in reductions with an extraordinary IR-reflecting ability bridging the gap between existing products.

The investment in a liquid nitrogen cooling system has proven to be a very cost-effective solution to the powder agglomeration problem.

This article presents three separate types of polymeric dispersants that enable the formulator to create dispersions that utilize the properties of pigments to their upper limit.