Shepherd Color Innovation and Inorganic Color Pigments
Watch our educational video describing how Shepherd Color views innovation and how it pertains to inorganic color pigments.
Read MoreHow Shepherd Color Approaches Innovation
In our short Innovation video, we discuss how successful product innovation involves a number of factors, with the most important being the people involved, the process, and the perception of color.
Read MoreHoliday2021
High-performance weathering powder coating colours
In the previous article of our three-part series, we discussed the control of colour in powder coatings. In the last of the series, we discuss weathering variables for powder coatings.
Read MoreBlue 10C595
Watch the video to learn more about Blue 10C595 and why it’s no ordinary blue.
Read MoreHoliday2020
Pigments That Stand the Test of Time
As regulatory pressures increase and sustainability gains more and more attention, some of the older complex inorganic color pigment chemistries really show their usefulness. A range of aesthetically pleasing and naturally soothing brown to yellow pigments have been workhorses in coatings and plastics applications – because of their regulatory friendly position, performance, and inertness -…
Read MoreWho says you can’t have dark color pigments with high TSR values?
Shepherd Color’s Green 10C650 masstone meets this criteria and more The Shepherd Color Company developed a dark colored pigment called Green 10C650, that excels in allowing color matchers to make dark green colors that have high total solar reflectance (TSR) and excellent weathering properties. Green 10C650 is part of our Arctic® Infrared Reflective Pigments, which…
Read MoreBlack plastic: listed or blacklisted?
(Excerpt from Plastics in Packaging November 2019 Issue) The colour black in food and other types of consumer packaging has become a hotly-contested topic, given the challenges with carbon black in identifying the base polymer for recycling. Paul Gander looks at some of the alternative strategies. While the majority of plastics packaging might be said…
Read MoreFormulating the ‘Black Rainbow’
For 40 years, The Shepherd Color Company has been producing a wide range of high-performance color pigments, many of which are infrared reflecting (IR) Black pigments. Our Black pigments for coatings and plastics all vary in masstone jetness, Total Solar Reflectance (TSR), and tint strength, the three main properties of an IR Black pigment. This forms the foundation of the ‘Black Rainbow’.
Read More