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NCS Colour Unveils 100 New Colours and Updates Design Tools

For the first time since 2004, NCS Colour has launched 100 new Standard colours on the market, now adding up to 2050 standard colours.

For the first time since 2004, NCS Colour has launched 100 new NCS Standard colours in the low chromatic colour area. The new colours aim to solve some questions including: Which white colour to choose? How to choose between different greige colours to get the right shade, neither too grey nor too beige? Can the famous Nordic light be adapted into a design, using a specific colour hue? Low chromatic colours play a vital role in interior and exterior design, product design and architecture. When looking at colour samples, it is often difficult to distinguish between one colour and another. However, when colour is applied, any slight differences in shade or hue can be felt and have a major impact on the final design. For this reason, NCS Colour is making the Standard colour range denser in the low chromatic area of the colour space. This way, the user will have more options and control.

Four areas of colour

Low chromatic colours are the most used colours in NCS system apart from truly Neutrals (N). The new colours focus on hues between Yellow and Red. This area of the NCS colour circle includes beige and brown (as a shade of orange) and pink (a shade of red). Also, “white” is an extremely important colour for painting. While there are countless shades of white on the market, most of them have 05 to 10 in Blackness and 00 to 02 in Chromaticness in NCS system. For this reason, NCS system adds in this space two new shades, 0601 and 1001, which correspond to the best-selling whites apart from the current NCS Standard. To better understand the new Standard colours, NCS Colour - in addition to the NCS Notation for each colour - has divided the 100 new Standard colours into four colour areas called White Delight, Nordic Midtones, Great Greys and Black Elegance.

A global community of colour professionals contributed to the development of colours

The 100 new colours are the result of a joint effort between NCS Colour and a global community of colour professionals to further enhance the NCS system. A new technology has enabled NCS Colour to produce samples in entirely new shades with low chromaticity. “The low chromatic colours are a constant in our top list regarding bestselling colours. We have seen over the years how important these colours are. They are frequently used in our colour development projects with the decorative paint industry, kitchen brands, home appliance, automotive industry etc. and recurrently top the list of most requested colours by the design community”, said Ingela Koski-Vähälä, Portfolio Manager, NCS Colour.

Updated tools

NCS Colour has also released an update to the most popular Design Tools containing colour samples of the entire NCS Standard range of 2050 colours. This includes NCS Index, NCS Atlas, NCS Block, NCS Album, and NCS Box. Updates are made to improve the usability and sustainability of the tools. “We take pride in constantly working to improve the Natural Colour System and its physical and digital representations. Adding 100 new Standard colours is an important milestone for us”, stated Elin Askfelt, CEO, NCS Colour.

For further information: www.ncscolour.com

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allnex Will Turn Its Alkyd Product Line More Sustainable

allnex will use mass-balanced biobased pentaerythritol in all the alkyds produced in the EMEA region.

allnex, a leading supplier of resins for sustainable coatings solutions, has recently announced that its Liquid Resins & Additives (LRA) business line will switch to the use of partially, mass balanced, biobased pentaerythritol in all alkyds produced in the European sites. The bio-content of the water borne and solvent borne RESYDROL® , SETAL® and SETAQUA® alkyds will then increase by 25%, reaching a total of more than 60%. The decision is part of the new Environmental Sustainability Governance Program of the company. The bio-enhanced alkyds of allnex will be offered at the same price of the previous products and will not need reformulations, testing or performance compromise. “With this step we are making our alkyds more environmentally friendly, it is a clear example of the leading role allnex plays in making the coatings industry more sustainable”, has stated Ruben Mannien, the Executive Vice President of the LRA business line at allnex. The sustainability program of the company focuses also on environmentally-friendly solutions that can help its customers to further reduce the carbon footprint of their products. allnex is committed to reducing 30% in absolute CO2 emission (Scope 1 and 2) by 2030, in order to pave the way towards climate neutrality by 2050. “This conscious decision to transition to a feedstock with higher bio content is an important step as it should create a ripple effect with our customer’s and theirs, for new promotional ideas and opportunities for their now greener coatings, collectively moving our industry into a more sustainable direction”, has also commented Robert Skarvan, the Global Marketing Director of allnex’s LRA.

For further information: www.allnex.com

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