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Applications

Discover our color solutions
for every application

Whichever industry you’re in, you need to be able to choose from the widest possible selection of colorants across the spectrum. Clariant specializes in supplying pigments, pigment preparations and dyes, as well as optical brighteners for use in coatings, plastics, printing, consumer products and other special applications.

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Colorants for Coatings

  • Automotive Coatings

    We can deliver solutions that address individual color requirements, providing vibrant and translucent colors with high-performance, and durability. more

  • Architectural Coatings

    Our range of organic pigments and pigment preparations provides customers in the construction industry with exactly the tailor-made solutions they’re looking for. more

  • Wood Coatings

    Preserve the natural beauty of wood: discover our individually tailored, sustainable, environmentally friendly products, including organic ED pigments. more

  • Industrial Coatings

    Sustainable solutions for industrial coatings and finishes for commercial and construction vehicles, agricultural machinery and ships more

Colorants for Plastics

  • Packaging

    High-performance organic pigments, polymer soluble dyes, and optical brighteners fulfill strict regulations and safety laws for packaging coloration. more

  • Consumer Goods

    Whether you’re manufacturing plastics for toys, sport articles, electronics or textiles, you need sustainable solutions that meet strict safety requirements. more

  • Construction

    Economical solutions for the efficient coloration of plastics used for housing and pipes in the construction sector, using less energy and saving costs. more

  • E&E

    Sustainable, safe solutions to support compliance with increasingly stringent legal regulations and specific industry standards in the E&E sector. more

  • Automotive

    For the coloration of plastic car parts, polymers are designed to perform. Whether it’s trim, fenders, spoilers, mirrors, or grilles – the colorant is crucial. more

Colorants for Printing and Non-Impact Printing

  • Packaging

    An attractive exterior has a great impact on selling products. We focus on optimized performance, product safety, and consumer protection. more

  • Publication Inks

    For gravure, coldset and heatset offset, we offer a comprehensive range of process and spot colors, quality consistency and supply reliability. more

  • Toner

    Our toners are characterized by specified and monitored triboelectric properties, high transparency, dispersibility, and compatibility. more

  • Inkjet

    For high color strength, transparency, brightness and fastness – our high-quality organic pigments are specially developed for inkjet applications. more

  • Color Filter

    We serve the trend for increasing image quality in the display market with our range of specially developed color filter grade products. more

  • Decorative Lamination

    Our high-quality pigments are durable and consistent, with excellent fastness properties including heat stability and bleeding fastness into melamine resin. more

Colorants for Home, Fabric and Personal Care

  • Laundry Detergents

    We offer a broad portfolio of colorants to enhance the appearance and performance of detergent formulations, including stability and fastness. more

  • Fabric Softeners

    To prevent precipitation, colorants must be added in high dilution to cationic softeners – we offer a wide range of colorants for these applications. more

  • Dishwashing Detergents

    Our broad range includes low-foaming formulations for automatic dishwashers, and neutral pH products for hand washing. more

  • Cleaners

    Our colorants can be used in all kind of cleaners, whether they’re needed for cars, floors, toilet flushing liquids, windows, or much more. more

  • Personal Care

    Our colorants are used in many different formulations, from soaps and shower and gels, to oral care products, to skin creams and cosmetics. more

Colorants for Other Applications

  • Agrocer® – Seed Coloration

    We offer a range of powder pigments, pigment preparations, and dyes to help seed companies to optically differentiate their products. more

  • Aluminum Finishing

    We have a long history of providing high-quality colorants, process chemicals and printing inks for the global anodizing industry. more

  • Latex

    Household gloves, balloons, bandages, toys – our pigments are specially tested for the coloration of latex dipping goods. more

  • Leather Finish

    Our range of high-performance products has been developed for water and solvent-based finishing systems for leather. more

  • Viscose Dope Dyeing

    Our colorants offer excellent product quality, longer filter life cycles, and improved color yields. more

  • Stationery

    Clariant offers color solutions specially designed for the specific needs of the numerous stationery applications including regulatory requirements. more

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This information corresponds to the present state of our knowledge and is intended as a general description of our products and their possible applications. Clariant makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the information’s accuracy, adequacy, sufficiency or freedom from defect and assumes no liability in connection with any use of this information. Any user of this product is responsible for determining the suitability of Clariant’s products for its particular application.<br />
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