Coating Industry

Typical applications: architectural coatings, furniture paints, art coatings, and more.

Architectural coatingsBy adding pearlescent materials to oil-based or water-based coatings, building surfaces will exhibit rich and subtle color variations under different lighting conditions and viewing angles, greatly enhancing the three-dimensionality, texture, and modern artistic flair of architectural materials.

Ruicai boasts a comprehensive product lineup that allows you to select pearlescent materials with different substrates, colors, and particle sizes, tailored to various application scenarios and sensory effects. Moreover, our products are perfectly compatible with both water-based and oil-based systems.

Furniture paint:Pearlescent materials are typically used in combination with transparent furniture varnishes, enabling furniture surfaces to not only exhibit an elegant, natural finish but also to acquire a captivating metallic, three-dimensional texture. They are widely employed in both modern and classical furniture designs.

The Ruicai Mica Iron series is widely used in the furniture coating industry, including paints for security doors and wood-grain finishes.

Art涂料:Pearl pigment is a key material for achieving dreamy, three-dimensional visual effects in artistic coatings. It is widely used to create artistic effects such as metallic textures, silk-like luster, and starry shimmer, and is often employed in interior decorations like background walls and themed spaces.

Ruicai’s Crystal Series and Shining Gold Series are particularly popular in the field of artistic coatings. In addition, the Auspicious Red Series and Zhuomala Cuo Series are also highly regarded in the international high-end artistic-coating market.

Plastic products

Pearl powder is uniformly dispersed throughout the plastic matrix via injection molding, extrusion, or blow-molding processes, endowing products such as cosmetic packaging, toys, and appliance housings with a pearly inner luster and metallic texture.

The pearlescent materials from Ruicai Technology, with particle sizes of less than 15 μm and 5–25 μm, not only impart a silky metallic texture to plastic products but also, coarse-particle-size pearlescent materials ranging from 40–300 μm and 100–700 μm can create a starry, shimmering effect in end products.

Ink and Printing

In the fields of ink and printing, pearlescent inks are used for high-end packaging (such as cigarette and liquor packaging, gift boxes, and labels), securities authentication, and special-purpose printed materials. These inks can produce pearl-like luster and iridescent effects that cannot be achieved with conventional inks. Moreover, due to their unique optical properties, they are often employed as a straightforward anti-counterfeiting measure, making it more difficult to counterfeit products and enhancing both their sophistication and security.

It is recommended to use pearlescent pigments of industrial grade with a particle size no greater than 5–25 μm. If the particle size is too large, issues such as ink buildup and screen mesh clogging may occur. Additionally, it’s important to note that due to the inherent specific gravity of pearlescent pigments, they tend to settle in low-viscosity inks; therefore, they must be thoroughly stirred before use.

Cosmetics and Personal Care

Pearl powder is an indispensable ingredient in cosmetics, widely used in foundations, eyeshadows, blushes, lipsticks, and nail polishes to provide brightening, color enhancement, and shimmering effects. In skincare products such as lotions, it is used to refine skin texture and impart a soft, radiant glow to the skin.

Ruicai has specially launched cosmetic-grade pearlescent materials in the Magnolia, Violet, Carnation, and Tulip series for makeup and personal care users. These products comply with the relevant laws and regulations of various countries and regions.

Leather processing

By being added to pigment pastes or polishing compounds, pearl powder, through the adhesive action of resins, forms a decorative coating on the leather surface, imparting an elegant pearly luster and metallic texture that significantly enhances the aesthetic appeal and visual impact of leather products.

Ruicai’s entire line of industrial-grade pearlescent materials can be perfectly applied to the production of leather goods.

Textiles and Ceramics

Textiles:Pearlescent powder is applied to textiles via printing processes. It is incorporated into printing pastes and then printed onto fabrics, producing multi-layered, soft shimmer effects under different light sources and angles. This material is widely used in coated products such as garments and umbrella fabrics.

Industrial-grade pearlescent materials, such as the Ruicai Silver-White Series, Gold Series, and Rainbow Series, are extensively used in textiles, adding value to fabrics.

Ceramics:When pearl luster powder is mixed with ceramic glaze and applied to the body, followed by high-temperature firing, it imparts a graceful pearly sheen and mesmerizing iridescent colors to the ceramic ware, significantly enhancing its artistic value.

Rui Cai synthetic mica-based pearlescent materials possess properties such as high-temperature resistance and are often used in industries like ceramics.