COLOUR | PIGMENTS
Right: Ferro is growing its leading position in ultramarines with capacity expansions in Colombia
coming months the customer experience will be enhanced by having local inventory of DCC manufactured goods stocked in the Lansco USA warehouses and Lansco products in European and global distribution warehouses.” Howie says DCC completed EU REACH registra- tion for most of its products this year. “We will continue to invest in REACH annually to ensure ongoing supply to our customers in the European Union,” he says. “Furthermore, we are committed to the continual improvement of our environmental performance and compliance. ” The company has also been working on improv-
ing production efficiencies, initiating what Vincent says are innovative environmental actions at its site in Maastricht in the Netherlands, where it produces bismuth vanadate pigments. These include recovery and reuse of vanadium and molybdenum from wastewater, using recycled bismuth in production, and reducing fuel requirements in its ovens by switching from electricity to gas. DCC recently launched several grades of
organic and bismuth vanadate (PY.184) pigments, which Vincent says have allowed it to expand market share in coatings and plastics markets. The DCC and Lansco merger is the latest in a
Below: Milliken has extended its Keyplast Resist colorant line for
high-perfor- mance
engineering polymers
string of M&A moves in the colour arena. Several months ago, Ferro Corp completed its acquisition of Belgium-based Cappelle Pigments, a supplier of specialty, high-performance inorganic and organic pigments – it too with a strong reputation in bismuth vanadates that provide alternatives to lead chromates in yellow, orange and red shades in high-performance applications, as well as organic pigments with high heat, light and environmental wear resistance. The acquisition came around 18 months after Ferro bought Nubiola, a producer of specialty inorganic pigments and the world’s largest producer of Ultramarine Blue. Last year, Milliken acquired Keystone Aniline
Corporation, a producer of dyes, pigments, pigment dispersions and polymers headquartered in Chicago in the US. Milliken said at the time that
while it and Keystone both provided colorant technologies to the agricultural, plastics, coatings, inks and household institutional and industrial markets, customers rarely overlapped because the two companies had specialised in different product areas. Milliken’s Performance Colorants & Ingredi- ents business was focused on polymeric colorants, “while Keystone brings exceptional formulation skills and application development technology to the table,” the company said. Meanwhile, Ferro is increasing its colour capabil-
ity through internal growth as well as acquisition. In July, it said it was expanding its production facility in Girardota in Colombia to meet increasing global demand for its ultramarine blue and micronised iron oxide pigments. “We plan to be producing significantly higher volumes by early 2019,” says Matthias P Bell, Vice President, Americas and Color Solutions. Ferro is already the world’s largest producer of ultramarine blues, violets and pinks.
Aiming for ETPs Discussing its latest developments in colour, Dayne Shaw, Account Manager – Keyplast EMEA at Milliken Chemical, says: “It’s not easy to colour high-perfor- mance engineering polymers with bright and vibrant hues. Not only are such materials subject to high-temperature processing, they also require steady, reliable performance properties when used, as is often the case, in demanding outdoor applica- tions. Colours and additives cannot be allowed to negatively impact any of those properties.” Milliken is now launching a range of Keyplast
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Resist products for colouring engineering polymers such as polyamides, polysulphones, PEEK, PPO and other high-heat resins and alloys. Polyamides in particular have tended to provide significant colouring challenges in the past due to their chemical composition. Additives historically used to colour many other resins did not prove effective
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