KCC Develops High-Chroma Premium 'In-Can' System

KCC has developed a new In-can system.

On the 9th, KCC announced that it has additionally developed eight types of high-chroma premium In-can colorants and created a new In-can system applicable to the artificial intelligence (AI) mixing system called 'KCC SMART,' and has started distributing it to dealerships.

The In-can system is a system where paint in the desired color is mixed and distributed directly at paint dealerships rather than being manufactured at the factory. By adding four types each of water-based and oil-based high-chroma premium In-can colorants developed this time, KCC increased the total number of colors from 31 (16 water-based and 15 oil-based) to 39. This strengthens color competitiveness in the paint market, enabling the realization of diverse colors demanded by various industrial sites and general consumers.

Paint dealerships equipped with KCC's high-chroma premium In-can system can realize more than 99% of the colors in various color books that serve as market color standards. In particular, they can achieve 95% of the colors in the Pantone color book, which is known to be mainly used by professional color designers.

Hamsungsoo, Executive Director of KCC, stated, “To meet the market needs where color competition is intensifying and demand for premium colors is increasing, we will showcase the newly developed colorants applied to the KCC SMART system with even more differentiated competitiveness.”

Meanwhile, in March 2023, KCC developed ‘KCC SMART,’ the world’s first AI-based color design program. ‘KCC SMART’ integrates AI with systematically organized paint color data accumulated by KCC over several decades to derive the required color mixing in real time. The entire process from color mixing design to blending can be completed within five minutes.

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