The Shepherd Color Company

Less warping, twisting, fading and failure means big maintenance savings for any application when Arctic Pigments are used. Products stay cooler, which means they are less prone to sun damage and enable more comfortable and sustainable environments.

How does it work? A dark color absorbs light and turns it into heat, which causes problems over time. When materials are colored with Arctic Pigments, they have the same aesthetically pleasing visual color but cut down the amount of energy they absorb by reflecting the invisible infrared light back into the atmosphere instead of converting it to heat. Less heat equals less chance for damage.

Our Dynamix pigments are fast and easy to create any batch size without grinding because every pigment is 100% color, no additives or filler. You’ll get full dispersion in minutes leading to faster product development and streamlined production. Cutting out color development variability creates efficient processes.

The perfectly flat and uniform glass flake substrate maximizes directional reflection so each particle acts like a mirror and provides a dramatic appearance.

Starlight pigments have a brilliant sparkle and shine, maximum light reflectivity, are resistant to tarnish, and can be used in many applications.

Two recent advances in the yellow color space address the needs of high-performance coatings. The most impactful is the recently discovered and commercialized NTP Yellow, named after its inorganic composition of niobium and tin in a pyrochlore structure. This bright middle-yellow color-space pigment has excellent chromaticity and opacity along with unmatched durability. To complement NTP Yellow is RTZ (Rutile Tin Zinc) Orange. Laboratory innovation has driven the color from a red-shade yellow to a true orange color.

Shepherd Color’s newest addition to the NTP Yellow product portfolio, NTP Yellow 10G155, brings the outstanding color, opacity, and durability seen in NTP Yellow but closer in color to red-shade BV Yellow pigments, but with higher heat stability and excellent weathering properties.