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Materials

BASF, Landa join for new pigments

by Michael McCoy
April 10, 2017 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 95, Issue 15

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Credit: BASF
BASF says Landa’s technology will help pigments disperse in coatings more quickly.
A photo of pigments dispersing in two liquids at different rates.
Credit: BASF
BASF says Landa’s technology will help pigments disperse in coatings more quickly.

BASF and Israel’s Landa Labs have formed a partnership to bring Landa’s nanopigment technology to the automotive coatings industry. Landa developed the technology for the printing industry. Now, BASF seeks to bring the process to auto coatings, where it says smaller pigment particles will disperse easily and create paints with higher intensity.

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