Coatings World - February Part 2 2016

Clariant Plastics & Coatings
4000 Monroe Road
Charlotte, NC 28205
Tel: 704-331-7000

Company Description

As one of the world’s leading specialty chemical companies, Clariant contributes to value creation with innovative and sustainable solutions for customers from many industries. Our portfolio is designed to meet very specific needs with as much precision as possible. At the same time, our research and development is focused on addressing the key trends of our time. These include energy efficiency, renewable raw materials, emis-sion-free mobility, and conserving finite resources. Our business units are organized into four Business Areas: Care Chemicals, Natural Resources, Catalysts and Plastics & Coatings.

Clariant’s Business Unit Pigments is a leading global provider of high-performance and economic organic pigments, dispersions and dyes used in Automotive, Architectural and Industrial Coatings applications. We strive to develop innovative concepts and solutions based on the requirements of our customers, such as our Easily Dispersible pigments, which enable increased efficiency of paint manufacturing at lower costs.

Markets Served

Clariant’s pigments business serves customers of all sizes in the automotive, industrial and architectural coatings industries, the plastics industry, special applications, and also provides colorants used in traditional, inkjet and laser printing. Additionally, Clariant manufactures and supplies tinting systems used at the point-of-sale.

Technologies

Clariant offers innovative pigments for sustainable paint production, including a wide variety of pigments that carry our Eco Tain® sustainability label. Clariant’s quinacridone pigments, including Hostaperm Pink E, are created with environmentally-friendly bio-succinic acids fermented from renewable, natural carbohydrates such as cornhusks and sugarcane byproducts, rather than petrochemicals.

Our Eco Tain products undergo rigorous analysis prior to certification that proves the product’s sustainability based on how it affects people, planet and performance. Many of our pigments fulfill the EcoTain criteria.

We have established a flexible worldwide production network that is actively committed to environmental protection and safety in all activities. Clariant has developed regulatory expertise over the years with product ranges such as pigment dispersions specially designed for a new generation of low-VOC and VOC-free architectural paints.

Technical Services

With our experience in developing pigments and anticipating consumer and regulatory evolution, our Technical Service Team is uniquely able to provide color solutions, from economic to high-performance, from water-based to solvent-based, from powder pigments to pigment dispersions.

We understand that each application requires a specific paint formulation related to the performance expectations, application process and esthetic effect. The coating must create the right color and opacity on the substrate and enhance the substrate’s resistance to the impact of its environmental conditions. We serve our customers with individual solutions and the ability to provide testing in customized systems. Our pigments provide the color and support the performance of the final application.