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Aluminum powder is powdered aluminum. This was originally produced by mechanical means using a stamp mill to create flakes. Subsequently, a process of spraying molten aluminum to create a powder of droplets was developed in the 1920s. The resulting powder might then be processed further in a ball mill to flatten it into flakes for use as a coating or pigment.

With the development of economy, aluminum powder are widely used in paints, ink, print, even cosmetics. Kolortek supply over 20 colors aluminum powder pigments.

Properties of Aluminum Pigments(mirror pigments)

--What Makes the Mirror-Like Metallic Effect

Most perfect nonleafing behavior of all metallic pigments

Strongest flop effect of all metallic pigments

Best hiding power of all metallic pigments

Highest brilliance of all metallic pigments

Excellent intercoat adhesion

Most suitable for tinting

Perfect rub resistance

Application:

Aluminum pigments are currently being offered to the ink and paint manufacturing industries. Because the main requirements of the paint and ink industry were pretty similar: brilliance, lightness, hiding power and strong flop or two tone effect (angle dependent lightness of an application) combined with perfect no leafing behavior, essentially a micro mirror.