SFXC for Business

Smart materials and special effects for business, worldwide

SFXC® supplies colour-changing, glow and light-reactive smart materials, from small pack sizes to production quantities, and develops coatings to a brief.

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Members of Tania Bruguera's team standing on the heat-sensitive floor in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, with pale marks where body heat has changed the colour
Installations — Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, 2018. Members of Tania Bruguera’s team on the heat-sensitive floor made with SFXC thermochromic ink. The pale marks show where body heat has changed the colour. Widely considered the largest thermochromic installation of its kind ever attempted, it required precise calibration to react to body heat while remaining durable enough to withstand over a million visitors.

One supplier for every stage of your project

Standard materials

Inks, pigments, films and coatings, ordered online like any other purchase.

Larger quantities

Larger sizes are listed on each product page. For bigger quantities, ask us about availability and lead times.

Repeat supply

Reorder the same materials online as your product or project moves from trial to production.

Specialist formulations

When a standard material won’t do, we can develop a coating to a brief.

Applications

Where our materials are used

A few of the projects our materials have made possible.

SFXC inks being drawn across a screen on a manual screen-printing press
SFXC inks on a manual screen press.
Print & Packaging

Print that reacts

Screen-printable inks that change colour with heat, reveal a design when wet, or glow in the dark – for packaging, labels, promotional print and textiles.

Inks & coatings Screen-printing guide
Cif-branded washroom installation at The O2 with panels coated in SFXC thermochromic coating
Cif campaign installation, The O2.
Product development

A coating developed to a brief

A sprayable thermochromic coating developed for Cif’s campaign at The O2: reversible, bonded to a vinyl surface and built for heavy use.

Research, testing and close collaboration took it from brief to one of London’s best-known venues.

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Clay sculptures coated in SFXC thermochromic inks on a platform on the ground before launch On the ground
The same sculptures high in the atmosphere with the curve of the Earth behind, now red and deep blue In the upper atmosphere
Thermochromic inks set to change at 9°C and 12°C.
Research & education

To the edge of space

Students coated clay sculptures with SFXC thermochromic inks set to change at 9°C and 12°C, plus glow inks, and sent them up on a weather balloon with a camera. As the air grew colder, the sculptures changed colour at different altitudes.

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Technical guides

How the materials work and how to apply them.

Technical Guides

Print and design

Need it printed or designed as well?

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Projects beyond the listed range

Tell us about your application

Most materials can be ordered directly online, and our smaller sizes are there so you can test on your own surface before a print run or project. For quantities beyond the listed sizes or a custom requirement, send us the details below.

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