ronment, it offers resources which are necessary for and
expected by multinational customers. It is arguably a central requirement of your business.”
Graham Battersby, consultant, followed with “Selling
New Colorants and Color Effects to an Ink Maker: An Ink
Company’s Perspective.” Battersby discussed the range of
special effects and their impact on the senses. He also
noted that the sales channel for effect pigments should
include the package designer.
“You need to sell to people who need the effect, and find the
best image and produce high quality prints if you want to
maximize the effect,” Battersby said. “There is a tremendous
opportunity to do more with special effects in graphic arts.”
Jack Ladson, president and CEO, Color Science
Consultancy, discussed “Industrial Color Control of
Gonioapparent Colorants.”
At the end of the afternoon session, CPMA hosted a special
panel discussion focusing on Special Product Stewardship. The
panel featured Philip G. Webb, product steward, BASF; Naeem
Mady, vice president regulatory service, Ciba Expert Services;
Christopher Patterson, market segment manager (printing
inks), Clariant; Russell Schwartz, vice president colors technology, high performance pigments, Sun Chemical, who served as
moderator; and Robert Kendrick, director, global regulatory,
product stewardship North America for Sun Chemical.
Noting that media coverage of EH&S issues are at the
highest level ever, the panel’s topics ranged from REACH
and eco-efficiency to chemicals and nanoparticles.
“It’s easy to talk a good product stewardship game, but
we need to find a mechanism to develop proper test methods and make them available,” Schwartz noted.
SECOND DAY
The May 15 session began with James Silver, technical leader,
Process Development Group, Colorants, DuPont Digital
Printing, who discussed “Evolving Ink Jet Print Head
Technology—What Does it Mean for Pigment Manufacturers,”
a look at the dramatic growth of digital printing.
“Pigments will be the colorants of choice,” Silver said, noting
superior durability and bleed resistance, increasing purity levels, adoption of traditional analog printing pigments for digital
The May 15 morning panel featured, from left, James Silver of
DuPont Digital Printing; Dr. Matthias Kuntz of Merck KGaA;
George Iannuzzi; EMD Chemicals; Greg Shrider of BYK-Gardner
USA; Angelique Danek of Ciba Expert Services; and Robert
Trinklein of Teknor Color Company.
The afternoon session featured, from left, Dr. Graham Battersby;
V.M. (Jim) DeLisi of Fanwood Chemical; Jack Ladson of Color
Science Consultancy; Phil Linz of EMD Chemicals; Richard Yao
of Merck Chemicals (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.; and co-chair Mark
Vincent of Dominion Colour.
and differentiation through surface and size functionality.
Silver was followed by Matthias Kuntz, senior manager, technical service coatings, Merck KGaA, who focused
on “A New Interference Color Space for Coatings.”
Angelique Danek, business development manager, regulatory services, Ciba Expert Services, discussed “Facing
the Challenges of the Future—Ever Changing Market
and Regulatory Environments, A Challenge for Pigment
and Additive Suppliers.”
George Iannuzzi, market development manager for PPS
Pigments, EMD Chemicals, discussed “Photograffiti – Lexicon
for an Urban World.” He was followed by Robert Trinklein, color
technology manager, Teknor Color, who discussed “What Does
the Plastic Industry Need from Pigment Manufacturers?,”
including the importance of consistency, innovation, access to
technical people and willingness to work together.
“Our customers are driving us to tighter and tighter color tolerances as they become savvy regarding color measurement,”
Trinklein said. “There is a great deal that can be accomplished
by two companies that genuinely consider each other’s needs in
the business relationship.”
Ladsen then discussed “Coloring of Plastics.” Greg Shrider,
vice president of sales, BYK-Gardner USA, closed the conference with “New Measurement System for Characterizing the
Total Color Impression of Effect Coatings.”
REACTIONS
Overall, CPMA officials and the conference co-chairs
were pleased with the program.
“I think the program was extremely strong, and I’ve
received positive feedback from all of our attendees,”
Terzian said. “The speakers were better this year than ever
before, and end-users could certainly benefit from these
talks, not just pigment manufacturers.”
“The conference went well, and the quality of presentations seems to get better every year,” Vincent said.
“The comments I have heard from our attendees are that
they found the conference to be very informative,” said CPMA
president Larry Robinson. “The only downside was that attendance was down a bit, but from what I am told, we’re doing better than most manufacturing industry seminars.” CW
