Paints and coatings typically use a combination of pigments, binders, additives, solvents, and functional mineral fillers to achieve the desired performance and appearance.
Your trusted partner for paints and coatings
High-performance specialty materials and functional minerals for paints and coatings, designed to optimize formulation efficiency, durability, and visual performance across all applications.
Omya is your trusted global partner, delivering innovative solutions for paints and coatings applications to:.
- Optimize formulation cost-performance ratio
- Accelerate lightweight and sustainable solutions
- Improve opacity, brightness and color consistency
- Enhance durability, weather resistance, and protection
Comprehensive paints and coatings solutions
Omya partners with leading blue-chip manufacturers to provide a broad portfolio of specialty materials for paints and coatings applications, including:
- Functional additives
- Pigments and colorants
- Flame retardants
- Resins and binders
- Functional mineral solutions (GCC, UFGCC, PCC, MCC)
Customer benefits:
We offer a comprehensive portfolio of specialty materials and deep market insight, enabling customers to benefit from:
- Complete, end-to-end solutions for customers worldwide
- Streamlined supply chain
- Global sourcing and logistics network
- Global quality standards
- Specialist regulatory advice
- Exceptional customer service
- Technical services and formulaiton expertise
Explore our paints and coatings portfolio:
Minerals
High-quality functional minerals to optimize performance, cost-efficiency, and sustainability:
- Calcium carbonate (GCC, UFGCC, MCC, PCC)
- Recycled minerals (GCC)
- Closed cell expanded perlites
- Hollow glass microspheres
- Barium sulfate (Barite: natural and precipitated)
- Kaolin (calcined and hydrous)
- Mica
- Dolomite
Functional additives
Enhance formulation stability, processing, and performance with advanced additives:
- Catalysts and matting agents (silica and non-silica based)
- Wetting agents (surfactants, silicone-based)
- UV stabilizers (HALS, UVA)
- Multifunctional neutralizing agents
- Defoamers and biocides
- Surface modifiers (waxes, silicone additives)
- Silica (fumed and colloidal)
- Dispersants (polyacrylate, phosphate esters, polymeric)
- Rheology modifiers (HEC, HPMC, HEUR, polyacrylates, organoclays)
- Flame retardants (aluminum and magnesium hydroxide, phosphinate systems, melamine, zinc borate, zinc hydroxistannate)
Pigment and colorants
Deliver consistent color, opacity, and long-term stability:
- Titanium dioxide (rutile and anatase)
- Zinc phosphate, mica, zinc dust
- Pigment dispersion
- Functional extenders (calcined kaolin, hydrous clay, barite)
- Organic pigments (phthalocyanines, azo, quinacridones)
- Inorganic pigments (iron oxides, chromium oxide, ultramarine)
Resins and binders
Enable high-performance coatings with versatile binder technologies:
- Acrylics (pure, styrene-acrylic, vinyl-acrylic)
- Alkyd resins (short, medium, long oil)
- Epoxies and hardeners
- Polyesters (saturated)
- Bio-based resins
- Vinyl resins (PVA, PVC, VA copolymers)
- Polyurethanes (aromatic, aliphatic, waterborne dispersions)
Applications we support
Our paints and coatings portfolio helps customers meet demanding performance, regulatory requirements and innovation across:
- Architectual and decorative paints
- Roof coatings
- Industrial coatings
- Powder coatings
- Sustainable solutions
- Opacity soultions
Why choose Omya for paint and coatings?
We go beyond supplying materials—we act as your strategic partner in paints and coatings innovation:
- Improve product performance and durability
- Optimize formulation efficiency and cost
- Support sustainability and compliance goals
- Accelerate innovation and time-to-market
FAQ - Paints and coatings
Mineral fillers enhance opacity, mechanical strength, durability, and surface finish while helping to optimize formulation costs.
Additives improve processing and application properties such as rheology, dispersion, defoaming, and stability, ensuring consistent product quality.
Pigments provide color, opacity, and UV protection, contributing to both the aesthetic and protective functions of coatings.
Binders form the film that holds the coating together, determining adhesion, flexibility, chemical resistance, and durability.
Industries such as construction, automotive, industrial manufacturing, marine, and consumer goods benefit from high-performance coating solutions.
Modern coating formulations use mineral fillers, low-VOC binders, and efficient additives to reduce environmental impact and extend product lifespan.
Omya provides technical expertise, product selection guidance, and global supply support to help customers optimize performance and accelerate innovation.