High Color Specialty Carbons

Uniquely designed, high-jetness carbon blacks enable excellent color performance and dispersibility.

We offer a complete line of high color specialty carbons for both water-based and solvent-based formulations for coatings applications such as:

• Automotive basecoats
• Automotive refinishing
• Decorative coatings
• Electronic coatings
• Wood coatings
• Furniture coatings

Our EMPEROR® carbon black products balance color performance with dispersibility and formulation stability. 

• EMPEROR 2000 and EMPEROR 1800 specialty carbon blacks are designed for water-based automotive basecoats and deep black masstone applications. EMPEROR 2000 carbon black is our highest color offering for water-based formulations, while EMPEROR 1800 carbon black combines very high jetness with transformational ease-of-use properties. Both products utilize our proprietary surface treatment technology that breaks the tradeoff between color performance and dispersibility.
• EMPEROR 1600 premium carbon black pigments feature exceptional color performance and processability for solvent-based applications, and deliver deep black color with a blue undertone.