BASF launches Lumina Royal effect pigments for plastics industry

While effect pigment Lumina Royal Blue was launched for plastics applications in 2010, into the market in 2010, said that the pigments Aqua, Indigo, Magenta and Copper will now be available to its customers in the plastics industry
 
BASF has announced that all five effect pigments of its Lumina Royal product series will now be offered for plastics applications. This will enable producers of plastics all over the world to create attractive design options in blue and copper colour shades. BASF, which had introduced the effect pigment Lumina Royal Blue for plastics applications into the market in 2010, said that the pigments Aqua, Indigo, Magenta and Copper will now be available to its customers in the plastics industry.
 
The pigments of the Lumina Royal product series are characterised by their high brilliance, purity and chromaticity. The Blue, Aqua, Indigo and Magenta pigments cover the greenish- to reddish-blue interference colour spectrum whereas Lumina Royal Copper offers an opaque, bright copper effect shade.
 
“The Lumina Royal effect pigments offer our customers particularly brilliant solutions with creative styling options for plastics applications, helping brand owners to enhance their brands and to stand out from their competitors,“ underlines Jeff Knight, senior vice president, dispersions and pigments, Asia Pacific.
 
The Lumina Royal series of effect pigments can, for example, be used to produce eye-catching articles for sport and leisure like skateboards and snowboards, ski boots as well as children’s toys. Other fields of application are elegantly designed packaging for cosmetic products and casings for electronic devices and household appliances such as coffee makers.