Products for Construction & Pipes Applications

With colorants and additives from Ciba, your building and construction applications enjoy advantages in design and polymer protection and our special effects add further value to your products. Our effects provide Durability and Protection, Color and Appeal, Comfort and Freshness, Processing Efficiency, Functionality and Performance, Safety and Environment, Flame Retardancy, and UV Protection. Our solutions below are presented with a focus on products for substrates; for more detailed information regarding specific building applications, their processing, preservation and design, please visit the application pages of this construction & pipes website.

Additives for Plastics

Ciba offers many long-lasting effects that enable and enhance the use of plastics in the construction industry. Our toolbox Plastic Additves for Construction Applications is full of constructive solutions and focuses on products for better manufacturing ease and long term durability in most building-relevant polymer substrates. The benefits of products such as Ciba® IRGANOX®, Ciba® IRGAFOS®, Ciba® TINUVIN®, Ciba® CHIMASSORB®, Ciba® IRGASTAT®, Ciba® IRGASTAB®, Ciba® TINOPAL®, Ciba® IRGAGUARD® are combined in many creative solutions, and emerging needs are addressed with further innovation.

Effect Additives for the Construction Industry

Colors for Plastics

Colors are everywhere in our daily life and bring appeal and-, freshness, and contribute to setting a warm and inviting atmosphere. They simply make our daily lives more enjoyable. However, the construction industry has additional technical requirements when dealing with colors. Contractors build our homes, offices, factories and institurions, and what they build has to last. Ciba Specialty Chemicals offers many long-lasting effects that make life easier, fresher, cleaner and safer. With our solutions based on our pigments from Ciba® CROMOPHTAL®, Ciba® CINQUASIA®, Ciba® IRGAZIN®, Ciba® IRGALITE® we provide a wide scope of decoration possibilities. Many of them offer excellent resistance to weathering and aging, and are adapted to a wide range of durable plastics employed in the construction and pipes industry. Our Colors for Plastics toolbox is full of constructive solutions for better design and quality together with easier processing. Among these solutions, the Ciba® MICRANYL® range are pigment concentrates for the mass coloration of flexible, semi-rigid and rigid PVC. It contains products for practically all applications and performance requirements and meets increasing market demand for predispersed, nondusting and meterable forms.