What is ultramarine blue pigment used for?

Ultramarine Blue Applications

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What is Ultramarine Blue?

Ultramarine Blue is an inorganic pigment known for its vibrant blue hue, derived from the mineral lapis lazuli. Its unique properties make it an indispensable asset across a range of industries.

Why Choose Ultramarine Blue?

Beyond its striking color, Ultramarine Blue offers a host of beneficial properties:

• Outstanding Heat Stability: Ultramarine Blue can withstand high processing temperatures, making it suitable for applications that require heat resistance.
• Excellent Lightfastness: This pigment is resistant to fading when exposed to light, ensuring the color stays vibrant over time.
• Non-Migratory Nature: Unlike some other pigments, Ultramarine Blue does not bleed or migrate, ensuring color stays where it’s meant to be.

Applications of Ultramarine Blue

Ultramarine blue pigments has a myriad of applications across different sectors:

1. Plastics: Ultramarine Blue is widely used in the plastics industry due to its excellent heat stability and non-migratory nature. It is used in items such as food packaging, garden furniture, and children’s toys. Blue Ultramarine can be used in any polymer, Ultramarine do not cause shrinkage or warping in polyolefins. Ultramarine pigments are permitted worldwide for coloring food-contact plastics.

2. Paints and Coatings: The pigment’s resistance to alkalis, heat, and sunlight makes it ideal for use in decorative paints, industrial coatings, and automotive finishes. Ultramarine pigments are used in decorative paints, stowing finishes, transparent lacquers, industrial paints, and powder coatings. They are not recommended for colored, air-drying paints for outdoor use in urban atmosphere.

3. Cosmetics: Ultramarine Blue is used in a variety of cosmetic products, including eye shadows, nail varnishes, and bath products, to add a splash of color. These pigments are widely used in soaps. Advantages are complete safety, non-staining and conformance to all major regulations.

4. Rubber: In the rubber industry, Ultramarine Blue is used in products like seals, hoses, and footwear due to its heat stability and non-migratory properties.

5. Inks: Ultramarine Blue is used in printing inks because of its bright color and excellent lightfastness. Ultramarine pigments can be used in most printing processes including hot-foil stamping. Letterpress, flexography, and gravure need high strength grades; any grade is suitable for screen ink, fabric printing, and hot-foil stamping.

6. Paper and Paper coating: Ultramarine pigments are used to enhance hue of white paper or for colored paper. They can be added directly to paper pulp or used in applied coatings. When added to the pulp, acid resistant grades must be used if acid-sizing is employed. They are particularly suitable for colored paper for children use.

7. Detergents: Ultramarine pigments are widely used to enhance the effects of optical brightening agents in improving whiteness of laundered fabrics. They do not stain or build up with repeated use.

8. Artists’ colors: This traditional use of ultramarine in all type of media is still an important application. Unique color properties, stabilities, and safety are highly prized.

9. Toys and other additives/materials for children’s use: These pigments are widely used in plastics and surface coatings for toys, children’s paints and finger paints, modeling compositions, colored paper, crayons, etc. they comply with major regulations and standards.

Explore the power of Ultramarine Blue and transform your products with this versatile pigment. For more information on how to incorporate Ultramarine Blue into your products, contact our team of experts who will be happy to assist you.

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