Fitz Chem is pleased to partner with Columbian Chemicals in offering new, innovative carbon black technology to help you formulate higher performance products for your customers! 

Columbian, in collaboration with Superior Graphite, have developed a line of PUREBLACK^®  Carbon products.  This new class of ultra-high purity carbon black effectively combines the performance and economic advantages of both carbon black and graphite producing a nanoparticle that has low sulphur content, low moisture pickup, and increased thermal and electrical conductivity compared to standard carbon blacks. 

Target applications include:

• Food Contact Applications (FDA 21CFR178.3297)
• Wire & Cable
• Conductive Applications 
• Systems Sensitive to Moisture (Urethanes)
• High Temperature Polymers

The key features of these blacks are their tailored particle size, morphology, ultra high purity, and extremely low moisture content.

Click here for more information on Columbian's PUREBLACKS^® or contact me for more information.

Fitz Chem is pleased to partner with Ferro Corporation, as they introduce their latest technology:  pigments that reflect solar energy!  The Sun's rays are absorbed by many objects thereby making their temperature increase.  Ferro's Cool Colors^TM and Eclipse^TM  pigments reflect much of the solar heat and keep the items pigmented with them cooler.

Along with the cooling effect come other potential benefits, such as less expansion and contraction, lower air conditioning bills, increased service life, less product degradation, and improved comfort levels for building occupants.

These new pigments can be combined in many ways, either by themselves, or along with Titanium Dioxide to yield an array of colors that can conform to State and/or Federal specifications and guidelines.  Potential applications include, but are not limited to:

• Roofing
• Building Exteriors
• Automotive (Interior and exterior)
• Industrial Coatings
• Vinyl Siding
• Plastic Composites
• Anywhere solar heat reflection is desired!

Follow this link to learn more about how Cool Colors^TM  work or contact me at your convenience to discuss these products in more detail.

The following information from Luzenac America on the use of Talc and Chlorite in this specific polymer might prove to be of value to you in optimization of your waterborne coatings made from this unique polymer.

Luzenac's work shows that a mineral known as Chlorite (hydrous magnesium-aluminum silicate) could possibly offer better in-can stability and better anticorrosion performance than traditional talc products when formulated with Haloflex®.  Follow the link below to view the data:

Talc and Chlorite in Haloflex® Primers

Samples of Sierralite (Luzenac's trade name for the mineral Chlorite) are available upon request.  Feel free to contact me if I can be of any assistance.

Several weeks ago, the EPA removed EGBE (also known as EB, Butyl Cellosolve, and 2-Butoxy ethanol) from the list of toxic air pollutants the agency is required to regulate under the Clean Air Act.

This change should help formulators in the Coatings Industry as the change offers yet another option in formulating for “Title Five” compliance.

To view more information on this change, view the link listed below:

EPA delists EGBE

As a formulator of wood stains, you have the job of formulating not just the right color, but also the right degree of transparency! 

Fitz Chem is pleased to partner with Dominion Colour Corp. in offering MaxBrite YD-302 Tartrazine Yellow (Pigment Yellow 100) as an extremely transparent yellow pigment used for interior wood stains, coatings, artist colors and nitrocellulose chips.  MaxBrite YD-302 offers unique formulation latitude versus conventional transparent oxides!

Fitz Chem is pleased to partner with suppliers who invest in being on the cutting edge of new formulation technology.  NeoResins recently introduced several new resin technologies for various different coating applications which may offer you better formulation options to meet your customer's demanding needs.

Petro-Canada has developed a new class of high-purity hydrocarbon based compounds known as "Synthetic Isoparaffins" for wood coating formulations.

Synthetic Isoparaffins offer the following benefits:

• No toxic PAH’s (poly-aromatic hydrocarbons)
• Colorless
• Low density
• Excellent penetration
• Very low VOC
• Good wetability
• Excellent hydrophobicity
• Low acidity
• Improved weathering protection

With the performance advantages of this new technology it is possible to reduce the use of more expensive components in varying degrees to result in:

•         Overall formulation cost reductions at performance levels similar to current products

•         or Moderate performance improvements at overall formulation cost levels similar to current products

•         or Significant performance improvements at higher yet very cost effective overall formulation costs 

Click here to lean more about Synthetic Isoparaffins, or contact us at your convenience to request more information or samples.

Dominion Colour has developed a new high performance magenta pigment developed specifically for ink jet applications.  This product offers a clean, transparent magenta shade red with excellent lightfastness and weatherfastness.  Sunset Maple has small primary and secondary particle size, which provide excellent dispersibility and inkjet printability.  This product is very attractive for inkjet applications because it provides significantly improved durability and water resistance versus dyes. 

View this data sheet for more information (PDF 234kb)

Fitz Chem is pleased to be a distribution partner with TOR MINERALS, manufacturer of HITOX® Buff Titanium dioxide. HITOX® , a buff colored Ti02, is ideal for formulating in tinted systems and offers cost savings by reducing both the amount of 'white' Ti02 in your formula and the amount of color pigment required to produce the same desired color. Visit this link to view more information on this unique pigment and how it can build cost savings into your formulations:

TOR HITOX®

INEOS is proud to announce the introduction of a new product, Zeocros E110, Sodium Aluminosilicate, for the extension of TiO2 in Powder Coatings. This material has been extensively tested in powder coatings and found to provide superior extension properties to current mineral and synthetic materials. It can be used to replace up to 25% of the TiO2 in white powder coating systems without negatively affecting gloss, brightness, UV stability, or mechanical properties.

To obtain more information on this product, click the link below:

Ineos Zeocross E110 (73kb, Adobe Acrobat Format)

Are you formulating UV/EB coatings?

If so, Cognis has introduced Photomer 5010® to help you formulate “self-matting” topcoats.

Features of this new product are:

	Polyester acrylate chemistry eliminate handling, grinding and dispersing silica or other solid matting agents.
	Fine tune topcoat 60 degree gloss between 80-10
	Using SI-231-44 you can likely reduce the overall cost of your formulation as this maleic replaces, in part, more expensive nitrocellulose.
	Increasing the use of insoluble maleics will afford the opportunity to increase total solids content, obtain higher gloss, and less film shrinkage.
	Nitrocellulose, being a very hard polymer, does not exhibit good adhesion. SI-231-44 will improve adhesion as well.

For more information on how to formulate with this product please follow this link:
Photomer 5010 (628kb, Adobe Acrobat Format)