NIR management is an area of significant, ongoing technology development. For several decades, approaches to manage the NIR reflectivity of an object have been directed at solar heat management. With the growing importance of emerging applications such as LiDAR based autonomous driving systems, plastics recycling and laser welding, the NIR behaviour of an object continues to be a development area of high importance. For a coloured object, the types of pigments used have a very strong influence on the NIR reflectivity. Dark colours containing standard carbon black pigments exhibit strong absorption of visible and ...