Simplifying formulation efforts with the performance triangle

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We at Birla Carbon understand the challenges you are facing in formulating a new paint system.

You might be looking into new raw materials, exploring new systems, or looking for a more sustainable solution to offer. Doing this while maintaining cost & quality standards.

We are excited to share the strength with you and help simplify this process by using the logic of the performance triangle.

The performance triangle helps you to understand the three key performance components and how to use this knowledge to achieve the best possible and most balanced performance.

Always have your performance goal and deliverables in mind when selecting a pigment, you will have to balance tradeoffs between viscosity, color and performance, dispersion, conductivity, and acidic vs a neutral surface.

Always bear in mind that your hardware and your formulation will provide additional constraints on the pigment selection.

Here are our top tips on formulation-

1. Ensure the right level of dispersant loading.
2. Always ensure dispersant and resin compatibility.
3. For solvent borne systems, they prefer acidic or post treated surfaces. Whereas waterborne coatings will work with either acidic or neutral surfaces.
4. Good dispersion and color performance in a grind or concentrate don’t necessarily transfer to the final coating.

The process, equipment and energy input will highly influence the final paint performance.

Here’s a few things to consider-

1. Wetting Process
2. The media size and density
3. The actual equipment that you physically have available to use, and the time and energy input you can put into dispersing pigment.

 All of this to cut your path towards more efficient and more sustainable solutions.