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Cobalt Aluminate Blue Spinel (PB28)
Pigment Blue 28 (C.I. 77346) is a blue mixed oxide of Cobalt (II) and Aluminum (III) with chemical formula CoAl2O4 and a spinel structure.

COBALT ALUMINATE BLUE SPINEL (PB28) PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
HEAT FASTNESS | LIGHT FASTNESS |
WEATHER FASTNESS | ACID FASTNESS | ALKALI FASTNESS | CEMENT COMPATIBILITY | SOLVENT FASTNESS |
>500ºC, 5 min. |
Excellent (8 on blue wool scale) |
Excellent (5 on grey scale) |
Excellent | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
COBALT ALUMINATE BLUE SPINEL (PB28) RECOMMENDED PIGMENTS
Americas
- V-3285 – Standard Grade Pigment Blue 28
- V-9250 – Pigment Blue 28 with a reddish shade and high tinting strength
- 22-10336 – Pigment Blue 28 with a reddish shade and high tinting strength
- 22-10446 – Pigment Blue 28 with a reddish shade and high tinting strength
EMEA
- 22-5091 – Standard Grade Pigment Blue 28
- 22-10336 – Pigment Blue 28 with a reddish shade and high tinting strength
- 22-10446 – Pigment Blue 28 with a reddish shade and high tinting strength
- 22-5500 – Pigment Blue 28 with a turquoise blue shade
- 22-5475-Pigment Blue 28 with the most reddish shade in our range; a cost-effective solution without losing other typical properties of cobalt pigments such as weather-ability, viscosity or heat fastness
- 22-5600 –Pigment Blue 28 with a turquoise blue and high tinting strength
- 22-5700 – Pigment Blue 28 with a turquoise blue and greenish shade
APAC
- SPP-2008 – Standard Grade Pigment Blue 28
- 10446s – Pigment Blue 28 with a reddish shade high and tinting strength
- 22-5500 – Pigment Blue 28 with a turquoise blue shade
- 22-5600 – Pigment Blue 28 with a turquoise blue and high tinting strength
- 22-5700 – Pigment Blue 28 with a turquoise blue and greenish shade

- Plastics: Polyolefins, PS, ABS, engineering polymers, PVC, silicones and rubber
- Coatings: Liquid architectural and industrial, powder, coil, stoving and high temperature resistant coatings
- Industrial: Cement, concrete, ceramics and glass
VALUE ADDED SERVICES
Advanced Color Matching
Ferro technicians combine their talents with today's most advanced computer color analysis equipment to offer our customers precise color-matching services. Our spectrophotometry process minimizes metamerism, speeds up color matching, ensures consistent quality and helps identify the pigment combination that produces any given color for the lowest possible cost and right performance characteristics, including outdoor durability and NIR reflectance.
Ferro can match your color chip/drawdown or we can refer to complete files of OSHA, Munsel, RAL, Federal Standard 595 Series or Pantone® matching systems to achieve your reference number. All of our colors are matched to Ferro standards or your reference sample, ensuring precise color reproduction from order to order.
Providing Formulation Guides/Assistance with Startup Formula Creation
We assist customers in their product development efforts to ensure regulatory compliance such as usage in food, and cosmetics; and desired performance including anticorrosion, outdoor durability and NIR reflectance.

Our laboratory facility teams support customers’ production and development activities, including accelerated corrosion testing, weatherability testing, heat build-up and total solar reflectance testing and migration testing.
Custom Formulations
We work closely with our customers to co-innovate and develop customized high-performing and economical coloring solutions based on application requirements and operational processing needs, including custom formulations for paints, coatings, cement, concrete, inks, ceramics, glass, leather, metal and plastics.
Custom Manufacturing
Ferro provides custom manufacturing services to add value to specific projects, particularly in cases which our production facilities and know-how allow our customers to reach cost-efficiency targets or attain higher performing final products.
Toll Manufacturing
For customers who need additional manufacturing capabilities, we provide a full range of manufacturing capacities, from pilot runs to full-scale production.