Pigment Violet 23, also known as Carbazole Violet, is a dioxazine-based organic pigment widely used in various applications due to its excellent properties. It’s known for its high color strength, brightness, and excellent light and heat resistance. It offers good fastness to solvents, acids, and alkalis, making it suitable for a wide range of uses. Pigment Violet 23 is a versatile and robust organic pigment with excellent color characteristics and resistance properties, making it a popular choice for a wide range of industrial applications, especially in printing, coatings, and plastics.

Benefits:

• Excellent Lightfastness: Pigment Violet 23 exhibits outstanding lightfastness, meaning it resists fading when exposed to light.
• High Heat Resistance: It can withstand high temperatures, making it suitable for applications like baking enamels and certain plastics.
  Good Solvent
• Resistance: It is resistant to most organic solvents and chemicals, enhancing its versatility in various applications.
• Color: It’s a bluish violet color.

Properties:

• Printing Inks: Flexographic, offset, and gravure inks.
• Coatings: Paints, including automotive OEM and refinishes, decorative paints, and industrial finishes.
• Plastics: Widely used in polymers and plastics, but may cause warping in some cases.
• Textiles: Suitable for textile printing.
• Other: Used in color filters for display technologies.

PAT-ADD AF 16 is a readily dispersible defoamer designed for waterborne coatings, inks, and pigment dispersions. It is mineral oil-based and provides effective defoaming and anti-foam performance during both manufacturing and application processes.

Properties:

• Coatings: Ideal for water-based, solvent-based, and air-drying paints, including industrial, decorative, and automotive coatings.
• Printing Inks: Used in water-based, solvent-based, and paste inks, including flexographic and gravure inks.
• Plastics: Can be used for coloring plastics.
• Other: Also used in road marking paints and synthetic leather.

Benefits:

• Color: Greenish yellow, with a shade between Pigment Yellow 1 and Pigment Yellow 3.
• Type: Monoazo organic pigment.
  Properties: Good lightfastness, high tinting strength, and good dispersion.
• Applications: Widely used in coatings (industrial, decorative, automotive, powder, coil) and printing inks (water-based, solvent-based, paste).
• Specific Surface Area: Pigment Yellow 74 comes in various particle sizes, with specific surface areas typically ranging from 10 to 70 m²/g.
• Hiding Power: Larger particle sizes provide higher hiding power.
• Resistance: Exhibits good resistance to acids, alkalis, alcohols, esters, benzene, ketones, soap, bleeding, and migration.

Applications:

Emulsion paints, wood coatings, primers, adhesives, plasters, and Inks.

Pigment Red 170 is a synthetic organic pigment, specifically an azo pigment, used for coloring a variety of materials. It’s known for its excellent light and weather fastness, as well as its resistance to chemicals like acids, alkalis, and solvents. This makes it suitable for use in paints, coatings, inks, plastics, and textiles. Pigment Red 170 is often produced in different forms, including pastes and powders, with variations in particle size and other properties depending on the manufacturer and intended application.

Benefits:

• Color: Red.
• Chemical Composition: Azo pigment, specifically produced by coupling a diazonium compound derived from p-aminobenzamide with 3-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid (2-ethoxy)anilide.
• Light Fastness: Excellent.
• Weather Fastness: Excellent.
• Chemical Resistance: Good to excellent resistance to acids, alkalis, solvents, and other chemicals.
• Applications: Paints, coatings, inks, plastics, and textiles.
• Tinctorial Strength: High.

Properties:

• Paints and Coatings: Pigment Red 170 is used in a wide range of paints, including solvent-based, water-based, and automotive paints. It’s also suitable for powder coatings.
• Inks: It’s used in flexographic and gravure inks, including those for metal foils, decorative coatings, and protective coatings.
• Plastics: Pigment Red 170 is used in various plastics, including PVC, PP, and PE.
• Textiles: It can be used in viscose rayon, viscose cellulose, and other semi-synthetic fibers.

Phthalocyanine Red PR3, also known as Toluidine Red, is a red organic pigment with the chemical formula C17H13N3O3. It’s a monoazo beta-naphthol pigment widely used in coatings and inks. PR3 is known for its vibrant red color and is often used as a high tinting strength pigment.

Benefits:

It’s characterized by a strong, vibrant red color and is known for its high tinting strength, meaning it can strongly color other materials even in small amounts. PR3 is also known as Toluidine Dark Red RNH

Properties:

PR3 is primarily used in paints, coatings, and inks.

Phthalocyanine Green PG 7 is a highly stable and versatile synthetic organic pigment known for its vibrant bluish-green hue and excellent performance characteristics. It is widely used in various applications, including fine arts, industrial coatings, plastics, and printing inks due to its intense color, high tinting strength, and resistance to environmental factors.

Benefits:

• Color: Bluish-green.
• Chemical Composition: A chlorinated copper phthalocyanine complex.
• Properties: High tinting strength, excellent lightfastness, good heat and chemical resistance.
• Chlorination: PG7 is derived from phthalocyanine blue through chlorination.
• Dispersion: It can be challenging to disperse by hand in water-based mediums, and a wetting agent is recommended for optimal results.
• Heat Resistance: It exhibits good heat stability in HDPE up to 300°C.
• Chemical Resistance: PG7 is resistant to acids, alkalis, solvents, and UV radiation.

Properties:

• Fine Arts: Used in oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints.
• Industrial Coatings: Used in decorative and industrial paints, as well as automotive finishes.
• Plastics: Used to color various plastics and polymers due to its heat and chemical resistance.
• Printing Inks: Utilized in gravure, flexography, and screen printing processes.

Phthalocyanine Pigment Beta Blue 15:3 (PB 15:3) is a versatile pigment widely used across various applications. It is highly valued for its excellent resistance to crystallization and flocculation. This classic pigment offers strong tinting strength, durability, and heat resistance. PB 15:3 also has a relatively high oil absorption, which may require careful binder selection to achieve optimal application performance.

Benefits:

• Color: Greenish-blue or turquoise-blue.
• Form: Powder or metallic-shiny needles.
• Solubility: Soluble in water.
• Stability: Excellent lightfastness and resistance to fading, even under strong sunlight.
• Chemical Resistance: Highly resistant to acids, alkalis, and solvents.
• Crystallization: Stable up to 180°C.
• Oil Absorption: Moderate to high.
• Other names: Phthalo Blue, Beta Blue 15:3.

Properties:

• Coatings: Used in solvent-based, water-based, and powder paints, as well as various coatings like alkyd enamels, amino baking paints, and nitro paints.
• Plastics: Suitable for a wide range of plastics including ABS, PS, PE, PET, PVC, and polyolefins.
• Printing Inks: Used in various printing inks like offset, water-based, and printing pastes.
• Other Industries: Also used in rubber, LDPE, HDPE, and as a tattoo dye.

Applications:

While generally not considered toxic, it’s recommended to handle with appropriate protective measures like gloves and eye protection.