China: ShengdaTech – nanoparticulate calcium carbonate

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Weight: 54 KB
• Volume: 2007
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0969-6210
• DOI: 10.1016/s0969-6210(07)70309-0

✦ Synopsis

Co, a global leader in plastic compounding) presented an interesting view of the pigments industry from the perspective of a major customer. He called for a "global approach" from multinational suppliers, as distinct from the traditional piecemeal country-bycountry approach. "It is a struggle to obtain information about the availability -let alone pricing -of pigments in another country", he said. He also called on organic pigment manufacturers to develop high chroma reds, oranges and yellows that can meet plastic processors' requirements for high-heat and outdoor-exposure applications. The benchmarks, in terms of performance, are still the cadmium sulfide and selenide pigments. Mr Sirois offered a number of other critical observations, which will no doubt be taken to heart by the pigment companies represented at the Louisville conference.