Technical standards

Basic requirements concerning titanium dioxide pigments (titanium white) are standardised. The most often applied standard is the ISO 591-1:2000 international standard. On certain markets, however, national standards are of greater significance: ASTM D476-00, or GOST 9808-84.

Methods of assessment of particular parameters of titanium dioxide are contained in the ISO 787 set of standards.

TYTANPOL^® pigments are manufactured according to the ZN-ZCh-435:2007 internal standard, in accordance with the PN-EN ISO 591-1:2002 standard.

Technical standards provide only basic requirements and do not fully meet requirements resulting from the specification of a particular pigment application or individual recipient’s expectations. In such cases, requirements are determined through arrangements between a recipient and a pigment manufacturer.

Apart from standards directly concerning titanium dioxide, a series of standards specifying requirements for pigments is applied, in force in particular applications. The examples of such standards are EN 71-3:1994 or ASTM F963-03 referring to safety of toys.

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