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• BASF expands production capacity and color range of effect pigments
  

  BASF will expand its capacity for the production of Paliocrom® effect pigments by more than 20 percent by 2017 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The investment will enable the company to accommodate for the growing demand of its aluminum-based effect pigments in the automotive coatings sector. With an inves more

• BASF increases prices for pigments and dyes worldwide

  With effect from September 1, 2014, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices for numerous pigments and dyes by up to 15 percent worldwide. The products affected are predominantly azo pigments, yellow and red high performance pigments, effect pigments, phthalocyanines and dyes. Price increase more

• Merck enters into Distribution Agreement with Azelis to Market Candurin Pearl Effect Colours in Benelux

  On July 1, 2014, Merck and Azelis entered into another distribution agreement for Candurin® pearl effect pigments. According to this agreement, Merck will grant the distribution rights for its pigments for the food industry in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg to Azelis. Apart from logistics, more

Publications Effect Pigments

• Making sense of measurement geometries for multi‐angle spectrophotometers

  Abstract We have developed new parameters that help to interpret multi‐angle reflection data. By expressing measurement geometries in terms of so‐called flake‐based parameters, a physical explanation is given for several well‐known colorimetric characteristics of effect coatings. The new concepts more

• Cover Chem. Eng. Technol. 2/2011

  Abstract Metallic and Effect Pigments for Coatings. ALTANA AG, Division Effect Pigments, ECKART GmbH & Co. KG more

q&more articles Effect Pigments

• Fascinating displays of colour
  

  Pigments have been used by people as colouring substances for centuries. Although naturally occurring compounds and elements were originally used for making pigments, e.g. iron oxide, manganese oxide, ultramarine and carbon black (soot), with the development of industrial chemistry from the 18th century onwards, there was an ever-increasing range of synthetic pigments available. more

Authors Effect Pigments

• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Pfaff
  

  born in 1953, studied chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and graduated with a thesis in the field of inorganic solid state chemistry. He was then research assistant and senior research assistant in Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena where he was responsible fo more