TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Coatings American Coatings Show
Orion will showcase its suite of high-performance gas black pigments and their benefits to coatings manufacturers at the 2024 American Coatings Show and Conference. Orion will also highlight three new sustainable carbon blacks for coatings and its PRINTEX® kappa 50 conductive black at booth #1466. The event will take place from 30th April to 2nd May in Indianapolis.
Circular Carbon Blacks for High Jetness and Tinting
Orion’s sustainability strategy is key to its product development. In fact, the company has organized its business around sustainable development. They help coatings manufacturers participate in the circular economy by producing sustainable materials.
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Our new circular grades, based on pyrolysis oil and renewable sources, meet the same application requirements as conventional specialty carbon blacks. As a result, formulators can create more sustainable coatings with comparable application properties to regular specialty carbon blacks,” said Jennifer Stroh, PhD, Orion director of sales and marketing, Specialties Americas.
XPB 10045 is Orion’s first circular gas black for coatings systems. It is designed for high-jetness applications. It is compatible with all suitable coatings systems.
XPB 10042 and XPB 10049 powders are Orion’s first circular furnace blacks. They are designed for tinting applications. They offer the same advantages and application properties as the high-jet and tinting grades currently used in the specialty carbon black market.
Gas Blacks with Exceptional Dispersibility
Orion is a specialty chemicals company.
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The gas black process produces a deep black with properties that are ideal for coatings and printing systems. The high structure and high purity of gas blacks lead to exceptional dispersibility compared to other carbon blacks of the same particle size,” said Carlos Hernandez, marketing manager, coatings & printing systems, Americas at Orion. It is the only company with gas black capabilities.
As examples,
Colour Black FW 200,
Colour Black FW 2,
Special Black® 4 and
Special Black® 6 feature excellent degrees of dispersion and high purity. Their UV absorption mitigates weathering, and their low pH makes the grades ideal for UV coatings systems.
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In addition, ‘the gas blacks’ narrow particle size distribution speeds pigment development. And thus, coatings production, while improving color performance,” added Hernandez.
Conductive and clean
PRINTEX kappa 50 powder meets or exceeds performance requirements for conductivity, dispersibility and cleanliness at lower concentrations than conventional conductive carbon blacks. Previously designated XPB 545, PRINTEX kappa 50 achieves the percolation threshold with low carbon black loading and good coloristic properties.
Orion also offers its ‘Carbon Black Guide’. Featuring 34 of Orion’s most popular carbon blacks used globally for coatings, the ‘Carbon Black Guide’ gives paint formulators a visual sense of the shades they can achieve with different grades.
Color chips in the guide show the shades each grade imparts in three coatings types – solid, white blend and metallic blend and detail relevant coloristic properties.
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Source: Orion