OREANDA-NEWS. Highest durability levels, outstanding coloristics and excellent processability in both, water- and solvent-based systems: Suppliers of automotive coatings have high expectations when it comes to pigments. BASF meets the requirements of its customers by offering them a broad portfolio of high-performance pigments to which the company has now added a particularly color-intensive Indanthrone blue pigment - the Paliogen(r)Blue EH 1900 (L 6400).

With this new pigment, BASF enables its customers to produce highly chromatic reddish-blue color shades. The product can also be combined with various effect pigments. "Paliogen Blue EH 1900 provides a lot of benefits for the user: Showing an excellent performance in water- and solvent-based systems, it 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': 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(r) Royal Blue 6803 H and with Lumina Royal Aqua 7803 H."

The Dispersions & Pigments division of BASF develops, produces and markets a range of high-quality pigments, resins, additives and polymer dispersions worldwide. These raw materials are used in formulations for coatings and paints, printing and packaging products, construction chemicals, adhesives, fiber bondings, plastics, paper as well as for electronic applications such as displays. With its comprehensive product portfolio and its extensive knowledge of the industry, the Dispersions & Pigments division offers its customers innovative and sustainable solutions and helps them advance their formulations.