The Global Market for Organic High Performance Pigments

The Global Market for Organic High Performance Pigments 

For this reason, my conclusion at the 1998 High Performance Pigment Conference [2] was that the definition of an H PP should be The right pigment selection for a specific use with well-defined quality criteria at optimized pigment cost. Today, however, I am more and more convinced that classification into specialties and commodities would better describe how pigment products are positioned in the market. 

In the following sections I will apply the same rule, which means that I will count only 5% of aU phthalocyanine pigments as HPPs, i.e. approximately 3500 tons of the total volume of approximately 70 000 tons. This principle seems also to be accepted indirectly by the protagonists of the fastness property criteria otherwise they would have to contest the overall well-accepted estimations of the proportionof HPP in the total organic pigment market (Table 9.1). 

High Performance Pigments. Edited by Edwin B. Faulkner and Russell J. Schwartz Copyright 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim ISBN 97S-3-527-31405-8 

---

I 9 The Global Market for Organic High Performance Pigments 9.2... 

---