Monastral/Monolite Organic Pigments

Heubach offers a full range of organic pigments, manufactured at its sites in the USA and India, or produced specifically for it in Europe. These materials are sold under the trade names Heuco, Monastral, Monolite and Vynamon.

The plant at Ankleshwar in India came into production in October 1995 initially to produce phthalocyanine blues. Far from being a "third world" factory, this has been constructed to the most modern environmental standards : it has already been praised for an in-house 4MW power plant which operates to an overall efficiency of 80%, thanks to the recovery of waste heat. It also produces material which conforms to the tightest EU and US dioxin and PCB standards.

The Monastral / Monolite and Vynamon ranges of high-performance automotive pigments, phthalocyanines, azo pigments and speciality pigment dispersions were purchased by Heubach in 2003 from Avecia. The Heuco range are designed for use in inks, Vynamon in plastics and Monolite & Monastral in coatings:

Monolite & Monastral Pigments for Coatings

Product reference	Masstone shade §	Composition *
Phthalocyanine Pigments
Monastral blue CSN-N		PB 15:1
Monolite blue 515100		PB 15:1
Monolite blue 515102		PB 15:1
Monolite blue 515303		PB 15:3
Monolite blue 515400		PB 15:4
Monolite blue 515402		PB 15:4
Monolite green 600734		PG 7
Monolite green 600735		PG 7
Monastral green GBX-C		PG 7
Monastral green GN-C		PG 7 / PG 36
Monastral green GNX-C		PG 7 / PG 36
Monastral green LAG-C		PG 7
Monastral green 6Y-C		PG 36
Indanthrone Pigments
Monolite blue 3R-H		PB 60
Monolite blue 3RX-H		PB 60
High-Performance Pigments
Monolite red 325401		PR 254
Monolite red 325402		PR 254
Azo Pigments
Monolite yellow 108304		PY 83
Monolite orange 200504		PO 5