COMMERCIAL CATEGORY · PIGMENTS
Rare & specialty pigments
Pigment supply and sourcing for formulators, coating manufacturers, laboratories and specialist producers. Scarcity in pigments usually comes from one of three causes: raw-material availability, small production volumes, or regulatory restriction. Each has different commercial consequences, and we state which applies per material.
Materials in this family
YInMn Blue
Yttrium indium manganese oxide. Inorganic, thermally stable, high NIR reflectance.
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Interference pigments
Thin-film coated platelets producing angle-dependent colour travel.
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Natural ultramarine
Lazurite-based pigment from lapis lazuli; scarce and labour-intensive to prepare.
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Mineral greens
Malachite and related copper carbonate greens for conservation work.
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NIR-reflective inorganics
Complex inorganic colour pigments selected for solar-reflectance performance.
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High-absorbance blacks
Carbon and structured black materials used in low-reflectance systems.
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How to specify a pigment enquiry
A pigment is not fully specified by its colour. For a formulator the decisive properties are usually particle size distribution, oil or resin demand, opacity, dispersion behaviour in the intended binder, lightfastness and thermal stability. Two pigments of the same nominal shade can behave very differently in the same system.
Tell us the binder system you are working in — waterborne, solvent-borne, powder, or a resin you name — and the processing temperature. That narrows candidate materials faster than a colour reference alone, and it avoids sampling a pigment that cannot survive your process.
Where we supply a pigment, technical values come from the manufacturer’s data sheet for the batch delivered. We do not publish generic figures for particle size, lightfastness or heat stability on this page, because those values are product-specific and would be misleading.