Pigments | colour feature


mineral-oil carriers, for example, have opened up applications in extrusion blow moulding where screw slippage was a chronic problem, it says. At Plastics Color, Chip Henderson says he has seen an upturn in the use of liquid colours, especially in such packaging applications as PET bottles. The company has its own range, called LiquiSol, which has been in the market for around four years. Other significant players in the liquid colour sector include PolyOne, Colormatrix, Riverdale Color, Repi and Novosystems, all of which have put considerable effort in recent times into improving product handling and reducing colorant wastage.


Pigment restructuring The pigments industry is undergoing considerable structural change. In July, BASF said it intended to establish separate legal entities for its pigments business “to better adapt to the challenges in the pigments industry.” In August, Clariant announced simi- lar plans, while Huntsman has embarked on a restruc- turing programme designed to improve its competive- ness in pigments. BASF will form a global business unit (GBU)


combining all of its pigments activities effective from January 2016. In the second half of 2016, the company says it will carve out its pigments business and establish separate legal entities. The new GBU will likely be headquartered in the Ludwigshafen area. “By creating an organisation fully dedicated to pigments, we will adapt better to the challenges in the pigments industry,” says Alexander Haunschild, senior


Above: BASF is creating a new


global pigments business unit that becomes operational next year


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