Quantitatively, the pigment blacks are substantially less important than the rubber blacks. Qualitatively, pigment blacks belong to the group of highly sophisticated pigments. These carbon blacks are used for a variety of applications such as printing, paints and coatings manufacture, plastics, fibre, paper and others (printing blacks, coating blacks, plastic blacks). But here as well, the industry works with a widely accepted typology based on particle size.
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