Product Overview

O’Leary’s carbon black, Printex U, is a high performance pigmented carbon black.

Product Characteristics

• High blackness: it has excellent blackness performance, which can give the product a deep and pure black appearance, and the My value can reach about 244, which is a better blackness product among the carbon blacks produced in modern industry.
• Easily dispersed: it has good dispersibility, can be quickly and evenly dispersed in solvent-based coatings, water-based coatings, inks, plastics and other media, and is not easy to be agglomerated, so as to improve the production efficiency and ensure the stability of product performance.
• Blue phase hue: it shows blue phase, which makes the black color more vivid and unique and improves the visual effect of the product, especially suitable for the fields with high requirements on color quality, such as automobile top coat, high quality metal decorative magnetic paint, etc.
• Economy: It is an economic carbon black pigment, which provides good performance and has certain cost advantages, which can reduce the production cost for users.

Product Applications

• Coating field: widely used in all kinds of solvent-based coatings, architectural decorative coatings, automotive paints, industrial coatings, etc. It can increase the blackness and covering power of the coatings, enhance the decorative and protective properties of the coatings, and it is also commonly used in the application of high quality coatings for color mixing.
• Ink field: It can be used in printing ink and duplicating ink, which can make the ink have high blackness, good fluidity and printing suitability, and the printed text and pattern are clear and full of color.
• Plastic field: It can be used as coloring agent of plastic, giving good color and tone to plastic, without affecting the processing performance and mechanical properties of plastic, and it can also improve some functional properties of plastic, such as UV resistance.
• Other fields: It can also be used in paper, carbon paper, printer ribbons, synthetic fibers, leather and other industries to play its role in coloring and reinforcing in different application scenarios.