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BASF The Chemical Company

BASF Performance Chemicals
Pigments, Dispersions, Dyes, UV Stabilizers
Laser-Marking Pigment
Attapulgite Clays and Kaolin Clays


Superior Materials, Inc. is the BASF distributor covering the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut for the following products.  Industries served include coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers, stucco, printing ink, concrete products, plastics, and related businesses.
Pigments
BASF offers a wide range of effect pigments and inorganic and organic performance pigments.

Effect Pigments -- well known brands include Firemist®, Lumina®, Mearlin®, Mearlite® and Sante Fe™.  These products provide fascinating pearlescent and metallic looks to coatings, inks, papers and plastics.    [Download Firemist® Brochure]    [Download Mearlite® Brochure]

Performance Pigments  -- brands include Meteor®, Neozapon®. Paliocrom®, Paliogen®, Paliotol®, Rightfit™, Sico®, Sicopal®, Sicotan®, Sicotrans®, Synergy™.  A wide range of pigment types are included: classical organic and inorganic pigments, High Performance Organic and mixed metal oxide pigments, and economical targeted-application pigments.  These are dry pigments (also known as toners) which are used across many industries.   [Download Classic Pigments Brochure]   [Download Inorganic Guide for Plastics]   [Download Organic Guide for Plastics]

Liquid Color Dispersions  -- Aurasperse®, Eupolen®, Gallery One®, H2Options®, Luconyl®, Omnicryl®, Options, Pigmosol®, Proline, Sicoflush® ; these are liquid colors designed primarily for coatings and concrete systems, for both industrial and consumer markets, including standardized paint color systems (universal machine colorants).   [Download BASF Dispersion Overview Brochure]   [Download Universal Colorants Brochure]  

Xfast® dry pigment preparations  -- unique powder-form, water-dispersible pigment preparations (dry dispersions), these products dispense and mix easily into almost any water-based system, including paints, mortars, and stuccos.   [Download BASF Aurasperse and Xfast Brochure]

Light-Reactive Additives

Uvinul® ultra-violet light stabilizers -- protection from UV-light degradation for coatings and plastics, these products include UV absorbers and light stabilizers.   [Download UV Stabilizers for Coatings Brochure]    [Download UV Stabilizers for Polymers/Plastics  Brochure]  

Mark-IT™ laser-marking pigment-- unique pigment additive for plastics converts laser energy to thermal energy for quick and clear laser marking.[Download Mark-IT Brochure]  

Natural Performance Additives
Attapulgite and kaolin clays have a long history of functional performance in a range of industries.

Attapulgite Clays -- Attagel®, Attaflow®, Attasorb®, Micro-sorb™, Florco™, and Sol-Speedi-Dri™ are some of BASF's brands.  These products have many functions, including thickening both water-based and organic systems, suspending fine particles in liquid systems, filtering, and absorbing spilled liquids.    [Download Attapulgite Overview Brochure]    [Download Attagel Brochure]  

Kaolin Clays -- MetaMax® high reactivity metakaolin is a supplementary cementitious material that improves the performance and appearance of portland cement concrete and cement-based products.  ASP® hydrous aluminosilicates are used as extenders and additives in the coatings, inks, adhesives, plastics, rubber and paint industries.  Satintone® calcined extenders and reinforcements increase performance and reduce costs in a wide range of products in the inks, paints, coatings, rubber and plastics industries.  Translink® aluminosilicates are high-performance reinforcing extenders designed to improve performance and strength in a wide range of polymer systems for plastics, rubber, coatings, and sealants.  (See link: BASF and Superior Materials co-sponsor 2009 Polytechnic Institute of NYU Concrete Canoe using MetaMax® concrete additive.)

 Downloads:
 [Firemist® Brochure]  [Mearlite® Brochure]  [Classic Pigments Brochure]  [Inorganic Guide for Plastics]  [Organic Guide for Plastics]  [BASF Dispersion Overview]
 [Universal Colorants Brochure]  [BASF Aurasperse and Xfast Brochure]  [UV Stabilizers for Coatings Brochure]  [UV Stabilizers for Polymers/Plastics  Brochure]
 [Mark-IT Brochure]  [Attapulgite Overview Brochure]   [Attagel Brochure]