Products in Flexography

DeCAL 4288 is a low molecular weight carboxylated acrylic copolymer that can carry very high levels of pigment, providing maximum color development properties at these loadings. To obtain the full benefits, it's essential to use the highest possible pigment binder ratios and the highest possible pigment loading of DeCAL 4288. It's common to prepare a neutralized solution using either ammonia or monoethanolamine in formulations where slower drying or better resolubility is required.

DeCAL 4287 is a low molecular weight carboxylated acrylic copolymer that can carry very high levels of pigment and provide maximum color development properties at these loadings. It is the same polymer as DeCAL 4286 but is supplied as the monoethanolamine salt for use in formulations where slower drying or better resolubility is required.

AFCONA 2505 is a water-based defoamer and anti-foam, especially designed for micro foams. It is an organically modified polysiloxane, providing good defoaming and anti-foaming properties in all water-based coatings. It offers excellent performance against micro foam, even in high shear applications such as long period grinding. It maintains its good defoaming and anti-foam performance under high shear conditions.

DeCAL 4201 is an acrylic binder ideally suited for use in water-based flexographic inks. The product exists as an alkali-soluble carboxylated copolymer emulsion but can also be supplied in its neutralized varnish form as DeCAL 4202. Inks prepared using DeCAL 4201 possess excellent machine stability/resolubility, viscosity/pH stability, favorable viscosity/dilution curves, and excellent pigment wetting characteristics.

DCL A2RU Indanthrone Blue, PB.60 is a high-performance green shade yellow for use in high-end coatings applications. Its superb weather fastness and chemical resistance make it ideal for automotive OEM, refinish, and fleet applications. Additionally, its enhanced rheology and low foam enable high mill base loadings in both aqueous and solvent-borne systems. For non-automotive applications, it is also excellent for use in architectural concrete coatings and high-end industrial coatings.

DCL 1120 Hansa Yellow, PY.74 is a semi-opaque green-shade yellow pigment with high tinctorial strength. It has excellent overall resistance properties and finds major applications in decorative, industrial, and powder coatings, as well as solvent flexo and water flexo inks.

DCL 3017-A Phthalocyanine Green, PG.7 is a strong, medium-shade phthalocyanine green pigment that is FDA-approved (Section 178.3297). It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of inks, plastics, and coating applications.

DCL 1354 DPP Red, PR.254 (2030 type) is a very opaque, bright medium shade red pigment, coloristically yellower and cleaner than the 1254 grade. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of plastics, inks, rubber and coating applications.

DCL 7354 DPP Red, PR.254 is a yellow-shaded DPP that offers excellent opacity, high color saturation, weather resistance, heat stability, acid, alkali, and solvent resistance. It is recommended for high-end coatings and high-end plastics applications, and is FDA compliant for indirect food contact plastic applications.

DCL RC-800-PG Rutile Titanium, PW.6 (Chloride) is a low oil absorption, chloride-process rutile titanium dioxide pigment, surface-treated with alumina and silica. It offers excellent tint strength and dispersibility, providing a bluish/white high dispersion product, and is approved for use under 21 CFR 178.3297 by the FDA.

DCL 1370 Naphthol Red, PR.170 is a very bright, yellow-shaded naphthol red with very good lightfastness, opacity, flow properties, and chemical resistance. The shade of 1370 is yellower and more opaque compared to that of 1970A. It is a reliable and versatile choice for various plastic, ink and coating applications.

DCL CARMINE B Naphthol Red, PR.5 is a bright blue-shaded red pigment used primarily in offset and water based inks. It also finds use in decorative and industrial paints. It also exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability.

DCL 5703 Phthalocyanine Blue, PB.15:3 is a type of phthalocyanine blue that boasts high strength and a non-crystallizing green shade. With exceptional resistance properties, this product is widely used in various applications, especially in water flexo inks and UV inks.

DCL 490-P Extra Strong Jet Black, PBk.6 (Powder, Stir in dispersible) is a highly dispersible black powder composed of carbon black. It is recommended for use in decorative coatings, water-flexo inks, and water-based systems, especially in concrete and roofing granules.

DCL 1243 Diarylide Yellow, PY.83 is a red-shade diarylide yellow pigment specially formulated for use in nitrocellulose, polyamide, and polyurethane solvent-based inks. This product offers excellent transparency, high gloss, and strong tinting strength, making it ideal for applications in solvent-based inks.

DCL 1144 Disazo Red, PR.144 is a medium to slightly blue-shade red pigment with high purity, tinting strength, and excellent heat stability. It is primarily used in the coloration of plastics such as PVC, ABS, polystyrene, polyolefins, and polyester spin dyeing, and is also used in some specialty coatings and inks, though it can cause warpage in HDPE.

DCL 1403B 2B Red, PR.48:3 is a yellow-shaded red pigment 48:3. This product is a good alternative to barium lithol pigments with good wax bleed resistance. DCL 1403B 2B Red is yellower than Red 48:2. It is recommended to be used in plastic, ink, and coating applications.

DCL 2110 Isoindolinone Yellow, PY.110 is a transparent, red shade yellow pigment with excellent lightfastness and good heat stability. 2110 Isoindolinone Yellow, PY.110 is slightly more transparent and redder than 2111. This product is also approved by the FDA under section 178.3297.

DCL 1372 DPP Flame Red, PR.272 is a bright, opaque, slightly yellow shade red pigment that stands out as an offset to the industry standard. It boasts excellent overall properties. This pigment finds major applications in the following: Plastics such as PVC, PE and PP Automotive/aerospace, industrial, powder coatings Water flexo, solvent flexo and inkjet inks

DCL 2111 Isoindolinone Yellow, PY.110 is a semi-opaque, red shade yellow pigment with excellent lightfastness and heat stability. It is FDA-approved (Section 178.3297) and exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a range of coating, plastic, ink and rubber applications.

DCL 5454 Phthalocyanine Blue, PB.15:4 is a transparent green-shade blue pigment that is non-crystallizing and stable to high processing temperatures in the presence of aromatic solvents. It is also non-flocculating in mineral oil/vegetable oil, and solvent-based systems. This pigment is recommended for high-grade industrial, agricultural equipment, automotive refinish and OEM, oven-drying coatings, and powder coatings, and is generally used in nitrocellulose and polyamide inks.

DCL 2316 Dianisidine Orange, PO.16 is a bright yellow shade orange with good opacity and tinting strength mainly for interior applications. This pigment is mainly used in the following applications: Plastics such as PVC and PE Powder and industrial coatings. Solvent flexo, water flexo and UV inks Rubber products

DCL 5613 Blue GS, PB.15:3 is a beta-form phthalocyanine blue pigment. It is a stir-in dispersible product that can be used without the need for expensive grinding equipment. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, including lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of inks and coating applications.

DCL 1222 Quinacridone Magenta, PR.122 (Yellow shade), is a high-performance pigment that retains all the typical properties of quinacridone pigments, while offering a more yellowish and brighter masstone and a noticeably yellower, brighter, and stronger tint compared to the 1229 grade.

DCL 2114 Diarylide Yellow, PY.14 is a semi-opaque AAOT diarylide yellow offering excellent value and having good overall resistance properties. It is specifically recommended to be used in water flexo inks, industrial coatings, and plastics such as PVC, PE, PP, etc.

DCL 2874 Hansa Yellow, PY.74 is a high-strength, green-shaded Hansa Yellow. This pigment is specifically recommended to be used in water flexo and UV inks, decorative and industrial coatings. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability, making it a reliable choice for a range of applications.

DCL 3136 Phthalocyanine Green, PG.36 is a strong, yellow-shaded, fully brominated phthalocyanine green pigment of excellent value, tinting strength, and color purity. 3136 has excellent overall properties. It is recommended to be used in a wide range of plastic, ink, and coating applications.

DCL 1149 Perylene Red, PR.149 is a transparent, blue-shade red pigment with excellent heat stability and overall properties. Specifically manufactured to meet a filter value specification of less than 2.0 bar/gram, it is recommended for use in solvent-based industrial and powder coatings, solvent-based printing inks, and plastic applications such as flexible and rigid PVC, PE, PP, PS, ABS, and other engineering resins processed at high temperatures. It can also be used to color nylon and other synthetic fibers.

DCL 7254 DPP Red, PR.254 (BO type) is a medium red shade DPP pigment that offers excellent masstone weather fastness, heat stability, acid, alkali and solvent resistance. It is recommended for high-end coatings and high-end plastics applications, especially exterior uses where excellent fastness properties are required. Moreover, this pigment is FDA-approved.

DCL 3777 Phthalocyanine Green, PG.7 (blue shade) is a bright, blue-shaded phthalocyanine with excellent overall properties. The product is FDA-approved (Section 178.3297) and recommended for various applications in inks, coatings, and plastics. It can be easily dispersed in plastics, coatings, and water-based flexo inks.

DCL 2870 Naphthol Red, PR.170 is a blue-shaded red pigment for use where good overall fastness properties are required. It exhibits good overall resistance properties, including lightfastness, weather fastness, and heat stability. This makes it a reliable and versatile choice for a wide range of paint, plastic, and ink applications.

DCL 1229 Quinacridone Magenta, PR.122 (Blue shade) is a standard magenta shade PR 122 that exhibits all the typical properties of quinacridone pigments. It is a low-warpage pigment, recommended for plastics, coatings, and inks, and finds a wide range of applications in coatings, such as trade sales, automotive, agricultural equipment, architectural paints, and industrial finishes. Its excellent heat stability and exterior durability make it suitable for use in various polymeric resin systems, such as polyolefins, polystyrene, polycarbonate, and ABS.

DCL 1319 Quinacridone Red Violet, PV.19 (E3B type) is an opaque, yellow-shaded quinacridone with excellent fastness properties. It is slightly yellower and more opaque than our 1219 Quinacridone Red Violet 19, and is widely used for high-grade industrial and automotive coatings as well as water- and solvent-based inks.

DCL 1482 2B Red, PR.48:2 is a calcium precipitated bright blue shade of 2B red with good properties. With exceptional resistance properties, this product is widely used in various applications, especially in water flexo inks and UV inks.

DCL 8817 Transparent Red Iron Oxide, PR.101 is a high performance transparent red iron oxide offering high color strength, weather resistance, and UV protection properties. 8817 is recommended for PVC plastics, automotive, aerospace, industrial, powder, and wood coatings, as well as solvent flexo inks.

DCL 8300P Phthalocyanine Blue, PB.15:3 is a beta-shaded phthalocyanine blue pigment that is characterized by its easy dispersibility. This pigment is FDA-approved (Section 178.3297). It exhibits good overall resistance properties, lightfastness, and heat stability, making it a reliable and versatile choice for a range of applications.