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MOSCOW (MRC) -- LANXESS, specialty
chemicals company, has expanded its Colortherm Yellow pigment range for
heat-resistant high-performance plastics, as per the company's press
release.
Two new inorganic yellow pigments are now available, namely
Colortherm Yellow 5 and Colortherm Yellow 26.
Plastics can now be used
in applications that would have been considered impossible just a few years ago.
High-performance polymers with special physical or chemical properties are
increasingly replacing metal, glass and ceramics. They are used for special
applications in vehicles, electronics and process engineering as well as medical
applications.
As the use of technical plastics in high-tech applications
becomes more widespread, the requirement profile for the pigments used for
coloring is also growing. In particular, the heat stability of the colorants is
becoming a decisive quality factor. In the case of organic pigments, high
processing temperatures often lead to accelerated decomposition; but inorganic
alternatives can be subject to color variations at temperatures above 180
C.
For reliable yellow coloring of high-temperature polymers, LANXESS
offers the modular Colortherm Yellow product range. It comprises the iron oxides
Colortherm Yellow 5 and Colortherm Yellow 20 as well as Colortherm Yellow 26,
Colortherm Yellow 30 and Colortherm Yellow 3950 zinc ferrites. The range covers
not only the color spectrum of light, saturated yellow shades but also orange
tones. Plastic formulations can thus be easily realized at processing
temperatures of up to 300 C.
Due to their special manufacturing process,
the color strength of the zinc ferrites Colortherm Yellow 26 and Colortherm
Yellow 30 is up to 20 percent higher than comparable products. This means a
corresponding lower level of pigment addition is required to color the
plastic.
Thanks to an extensively equipped plastics technical center,
LANXESS is able to provide customers with comprehensive advice in the use of its
pigments. Its services also include analyzing thermal stability in
customer-specific plastics applications.
As MRC reported earlier,
LANXESS will enter the battery chemistry business with electrolyte production
for lithium-ion batteries at its site in Leverkusen, Germany, beginning next
year. The German chemicals company will produce electrolyte formulations for
lithium-ion batteries "under the authorisation" of Guangzhou Tinci Materials
Technology, a Chinese producer of battery materials that aims to become a
regional supplier for battery cell manufacturers in Europe.
We remind that
Russia's output of chemical products rose in February 2021 by 5.3% year on year.
Thus, production of basic chemicals increased year on year by 7.5% in the first
two months of 2021. February production of polymers in primary form was
861,000 tonnes versus 196,000 tonnes in January. Overall output of polymers in
primary form totalled 1,770,000 tonnes in the first two months of 2021, up
by 8.4% year on year.
LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals
company with about 19,200 employees in 25 countries. The company is currently
represented at 74 production sites worldwide. The core business of Lanxess is
the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical intermediates,
additives, specialty chemicals and plastics. Through Arlanxeo, the joint venture
with Saudi Aramco, Lanxess is also a leading supplier of synthetic
rubber. |
