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RAL EFFECT – a new colour collection
RAL EFFECT was first introduced to the international professional public in the exhibition „Farbe – Ausbau & Fassade“ from the 18th until the 21st of April 2007 in Köln.
The starting point
In spring 2005 questioning domestic and foreign colour manufacturers and distributors revealed the wish for a new and enhanced palette of industrial colours which would be fit for designing. Especially retail in Europe vocalized the need for such a product.
The development of RAL EFFECT was an international project where experts of the colour industry, colour design and product design from Finland, France, Italy and Germany worked alongside each other.
The new colour collection meets the demand of the growing
impact of colour computation especially in product design and industry application.
The new collection will be positioned as a new colour standard in these areas.
The conceptual limited constrictions of RAL CLASSIC as a colour collection
with historical roots will be avoided.
Colour design trends like the penchant for light and metallic colours were
considered as well as an organized and practical coverage of the colour space.
The conception
RAL EFFECT...
- Consists of 420 uni and 70 metallic colours.
- Covers a greater colour space than RAL CLASSIC.
- Has a compository colour flow with greater design variety.
- For each colour row (6 uni colours) it contains one fitting metallic hue.
- Contains a greater number of sought-after lighter colours, a progression of offwhites and pastell-colours, but also several saturated colours in darker areas.
- Offers good opacity for all colours which can be achieved with available lasting pigments.
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The uni and metallic colours of RAL EFFECT can be combined safely and harmoniously.
No collection other than RAL EFFECT contains metallic colours in this breadth
and range.
RAL EFFECT contains colours which conform to several different european
EN and ISO standards, for example the norm for safety colours and signs,
colours
for non-reflective road-signs and code colours for tubes.
A gloss scale page shows the corner points of different steps of shine
which are expicitly named and sorted.
The technique
RAL EFFECT is the first colour collection from an independent
colour standardizer which is based on watery varnish systems.
This way environmental conservation aspects (european VOC-directive) are
respected and technical production advantages concerning the reproduction
of colour hues in painting materials without metamerism effect are achieved.
In order to prevent the metamerism effect the same pigments are used for
the colour cards as are normally utilised in the subsequent manufacture of
a product with the same colour hue. Lead, cadmium and chromates are excluded
and as such the environmental compatibility is further improved.
Aside from the environmental compatibility the design of an easy and low
cost production of the paint colours played another great part in the development
of RAL EFFECT.
Even without the usagae of lead, cadmium and chromates clear yellow orange
and red hues have a satisfactory covering power and allow for the requests
of a economic usage of pigments in the manufacture.
The formulation
The choice of pigments resulted from the consideration of the lasting availability
for industrial applications. All formulations mirror the „state of
the art“.
The usage of few pigments offer the colour manufacturer a low cost colour
production compared to other colours which use many or expensive pigments.
The reproduction of colour sample cards for RAL EFFECT is eased by a simple
and modern formulation.
The colour formulations and the colour index combinations for the colours
are property of RAL and can be supplied to the industry by request.
RAL EFFECT products
RAL EFFECT starts initially with three products:
- A 490s set of primary standards in a practical wood box
- Novel double colour card with which you can view the uni and metallic colours together or separately. For this colour card protection of utility patents was requested.
- Single colour cards in DIN A6 format which are needed by the users for the colour choice.
A simple, easy to understand and describable four-digit classification system
The design and mechanic of the products are consequently oriented at the target audience and offer the unproblematic manufacturing of personalized products for high volume customers. Custom-made colour selections are also possible by request.
Who is predestined for RAL EFFECT?
- Colour and varnish industry as well as colour wholesale and retail
- Industrial users (metal/synthetics/textiles/ceramics/and so on)
- Manufacturing industry (buildings/industrial equipment/furniture/consumer goods/car motives/and so on)
- Product designer, colour designer
- Architects, interior design and others
- Training and schooling institutions
The RAL EFFECT pattern.
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