In the consumer market, the trend towards more effect colours is continuing relentlessly. Helicone HC effect pigments create special colour effects – depth of gloss, heightened brilliance and a distinctive colour transition (colour changes with viewing angle) – that lend each product an individual look. The coatings offer a variety of colour design possibilities, used either alone or combined with coloured, metallic or pearlescent pigments, and maximum ease of processing in techniques such as paint spraying, coating and the pigmenting of plastics. Helicone HC XL grade is a coarse-grained variation.