Who says you can’t have dark color pigments with high TSR values?

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Shepherd Color’s Green 10C650 masstone meets this criteria and more The Shepherd Color Company developed a dark colored pigment called Green 10C650, that excels in allowing color matchers to make dark green colors that have high total solar reflectance (TSR) and excellent weathering properties. Green 10C650 is part of our Arctic® Infrared Reflective Pigments, which…

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Black plastic: listed or blacklisted?

(Excerpt from Plastics in Packaging November 2019 Issue) The colour black in food and other types of consumer packaging has become a hotly-contested topic, given the challenges with carbon black in identifying the base polymer for recycling. Paul Gander looks at some of the alternative strategies. While the majority of plastics packaging might be said…

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Formulating the ‘Black Rainbow’

For 40 years, The Shepherd Color Company has been producing a wide range of high-performance color pigments, many of which are infrared reflecting (IR) Black pigments. Our Black pigments for coatings and plastics all vary in masstone jetness, Total Solar Reflectance (TSR), and tint strength, the three main properties of an IR Black pigment. This forms the foundation of the ‘Black Rainbow’.

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打造“黑色彩虹”

In the March 2022 Edition edition of Plastics Engineering, Pat Toensmeier, reports on the efforts underway of new and upgraded formulations for pigments and colorants.

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YInMn Blue

Commercially known as Blue 513, YInMn Blue is available for use in industrial coatings and plastics as well as artist color materials. The balance of visual aesthetics and infrared functionality gives it unique properties that allow building products to have deep, rich blue colors and that stay cooler when exposed to the sun.

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