External view of the company’s new water-based pigment preparations production plant in Santa Clara, Mexico.
MUTTENZ, GERMANY: Clariant International Ltd has inaugurated its new production plant for water-based pigment preparations in Santa Clara, Mexico. The new plant doubles its annual production capacity for the pigment preparations and enhances its ability to serve customers across North and Latin America.
Pigment preparations are aqueous dispersions based on pigments. Compared to powder pigments, pigment preparations offer faster and more cost-efficient production, and better dispersibility. In addition, they provide more flexibility through the possibility of tailor-made solutions.
The capacity increase for water-based pigment preparations will enable Clariant to improve its support for the regions' current and emerging market segments including decorative coatings, non-impact and flexo printing, industrial coatings, and specialties like home care, personal care and stationery.
Clariant began production at the new Santa Clara plant for water-based pigment preparations in Q2 2016. To complement this capacity increase, Clariant is also scheduled to start-up a new plant for solvent-based pigment preparations at the same site in Q4 2016. This will produce high milling demand products for the US specialties market.
“The new production plant further improves access to growth markets in North, Central and South America. The new lines for water-based and solvent-based pigment preparations represent an important next step to extend the value we can create for our customers based on our strong formulation and dispersing know-how for many applications, our globally active technical service and vast production network,” said Michael Grosskopf, head of business unit pigments, Clariant.
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