C. I. Pigment Red. 264 is a bluish shade DPP that is available both in a transparent and, recently, a highly hiding version. Its transparent grades show very high color strength, excellent durability, migration and solvent fastness as well as very high thermal stability. The pigment is being used in many different applications. It is especially suitable for metallic and effect finishes where it gives colorations with excellent durability, and overpaint resistance and allows for a broad coverage of mid to bluish shade reds. The high tinctorial strength makes it also suitable as a shading component in many different applications including automotive and gen
eral industrial finishes. A new type with improved rheological properties has recently been commercialized. Its high thermal stability combined with insolubility makes it also very suitable for use in powder and coil coatings. It is also a very attractive pigment for many plastics and PP fiber applications, offering extremely high color strength and high transparency. It can be used for shading as it shows a high heat stability also at low concentrations. In injection-molded HDPE it allows for formulations with low warping. There are grades available which meet several national and international regulations for food packaging and toys materials. The recently commercialized opaque grade shows a saturated bluish red shade with a high tinctorial strength and a very high hiding power combined with outstanding fastness properties and thermal stability. Its main field of application is in high-performance paints where it is equally applicable in solvent — and waterborne systems.
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